In Place Mate
In Place Mate
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Has anyone ever heard of this?
I am working on an assembly created by someone else a couple of years ago.
I am getting an error when I try to change a dimension on one of the parts. When I look at the mates on the part, the only mate is an "IN PLACE" mate. I also get a dialog box telling me that this part is mated using "In Place Mates" and cannot be changed using the mates dialog box.
Any ideas?
John
I am working on an assembly created by someone else a couple of years ago.
I am getting an error when I try to change a dimension on one of the parts. When I look at the mates on the part, the only mate is an "IN PLACE" mate. I also get a dialog box telling me that this part is mated using "In Place Mates" and cannot be changed using the mates dialog box.
Any ideas?
John






RE: In Place Mate
Open assy, select part, edit part.
Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 06-21-06)
RE: In Place Mate
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.
RE: In Place Mate
This part was created in the assembly on the fly, and was the first part in the assembly. The inplace mate is created between the front plane of the new part and the plane selected. You can look for this under help - in-context features, creating a part in an assembly.
See below from SW Help.
Hope this helps.
SolidWorks 2006 - SP3.0
UG NX3
Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0
RE: In Place Mate
John