Is there a way to disable or change what the default mate is?
Is there a way to disable or change what the default mate is?
(OP)
I’m inserting several hundred parts and one of the mates I’m using is a distance mate. The problem is the default mate is coincident and it cannot be resolved. Each time I select my 2 points S/W tries to apply the coincident for about a minute before I can apply the distance one. No big deal once, but several hundred is several hours. Any thoughts?






RE: Is there a way to disable or change what the default mate is?
http://www.lennyworks.com/
You can then assign the distance mate to a hotkey (I use Alt-C for coincident mates and Alt-X for concentric). Then you can select the two entities you want to mate and hit your hotkey (dare I suggest Alt-D?).
You'll need to make sure that the macro resides in a directory where Solidworks knows to look, but other than that this should work for you.
RE: Is there a way to disable or change what the default mate is?
Do you have a name?
RE: Is there a way to disable or change what the default mate is?
RE: Is there a way to disable or change what the default mate is?
Several hundred parts with one being a mate, leads me to believe they are the same part at a distance. Is this true?
If this is true then maybe you might look into pattern. If this is not true forget about patterns.
Bradley
SolidWorks Premim 2007 x64 SP4.0
PDM Works, Dell XPS Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU
3.00 GHz, 5 GB RAM, Virtual memory 12577 MB, nVidia 3400
RE: Is there a way to disable or change what the default mate is?
RE: Is there a way to disable or change what the default mate is?
RE: Is there a way to disable or change what the default mate is?
RE: Is there a way to disable or change what the default mate is?
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Matt
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
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RE: Is there a way to disable or change what the default mate is?
A little slow but they work fine.
Do you know if you can change the default value for the distance mate?
Mine goes back to 1” every time.
RE: Is there a way to disable or change what the default mate is?
What version and service pack of SolidWorks are you using?
The distance mate reverting to 1" all the time was a problem in an early SP of 2007, and is resolved in later service packs. I would suggest upgrading to the latest SP of SolidWorks 2007.
Cheers,
Anna Wood
SW 2007 SP4.0, WinXP
Dell Precision 380, Pentium D940, 4 Gigs RAM, FX3450
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/solidmuse
http://www.phxswug.com
RE: Is there a way to disable or change what the default mate is?
I am using SW07/SP4.0
Dave
RE: Is there a way to disable or change what the default mate is?
The distance mate reverting to 1", is this with a special macro or with the stock SW distance mates not invoked by a macro?
I am thinking now that you were talking about the macro.
Cheers,
Anna Wood
SW 2007 SP4.0, WinXP
Dell Precision 380, Pentium D940, 4 Gigs RAM, FX3450
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/solidmuse
http://www.phxswug.com
RE: Is there a way to disable or change what the default mate is?
RE: Is there a way to disable or change what the default mate is?
Anna,
No it reverts to 1” regardless of how it is applied.
Handleman,
Thanks, I have not written/edited macros as of yet but I’ll tinker with it and see how it goes.
Dave