Completely constraining cylindrical parts
Completely constraining cylindrical parts
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I'm switching from Pro/E, and if you are assembling a cylindrical part in Pro/E, and don't care about the orientation about the axis, it has the option to assume an orientation so it shows as completely constrained.
Is there anything like that in Solidworks? Right now I have a whole bunch of underconstrained components. I don't care about the rotational constraint, but there is no way to easily tell if that is the only constraint missing. I'd prefer not to do a parallel mate every time just to verify full constraint on the feature tree.
Thanks
Is there anything like that in Solidworks? Right now I have a whole bunch of underconstrained components. I don't care about the rotational constraint, but there is no way to easily tell if that is the only constraint missing. I'd prefer not to do a parallel mate every time just to verify full constraint on the feature tree.
Thanks






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RE: Completely constraining cylindrical parts
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I agree with VELCROW about the fully constrained desire and "laziness". I love to be able to quickly scroll through the assembly tree to verify that nothing is loose. For that reason I clock all my hardware. Unfortunately, this does add mates to the assy. Maybe the "lock" mate is the solution.
The other alternative is to put all of your hardware in a folder. You can collapse the hardware folder so you don't see the "loose" hardware and just know that it is only "loose" because it has 2 mates instead of 3.
-Dustin
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