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Mate to a hole on a tube

Mate to a hole on a tube

Mate to a hole on a tube

(OP)
I'm finding this quite strange.... I have a thin feature tube which has some cut holes in it (nothing strange just 6mm holes across the diameter).

I now want to mate a washer to the hole but I can't seem to select the hole on the tube. Solidworks says 'unable to mate selected entities' as a tooltip when I click the hole edge.

Why would this be and how is it you can mate parts to holes on tubes. I very much expect this is something very obvious but I just can't see what it is. I have been mating (in a solidworks sense) succesfully for a few days now and this one just seems odd.

Charles


RE: Mate to a hole on a tube

For a concentric mate, try picking the FACE of the hole, not the edges.

Flores
SW06 SP4.1

RE: Mate to a hole on a tube

(OP)
Yup thats it - its a 2000mm long tube 1.5mm wall thickness and all I needed to do was zoom in and select the face of the hole as you have said.....!!!! I almost now want to delete the original question as the answer was literally staring me in the 'face'

Thankyou

RE: Mate to a hole on a tube

Mating to faces is most always the better option. In the future...try hitting the F5 key to bring up the Selection Filters and press the "Face" filter. That should make it easier to select faces when zoomed out.

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2006 SP4.0 on WinXP SP2

RE: Mate to a hole on a tube

An alternative is to mate with the Temporary Axis of the hole.

cheers
Helpful SW websites  FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions  FAQ559-1091

RE: Mate to a hole on a tube

Another alternative is a Concentric Mate with the Sketch Point defining the hole location.

Ken

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