I have personally had no training whatsoever except for the 10 minutes where my friend showed me how to extrude, cut, loft, revolve, and use sheet metal. I'm an intern at my office so I'm pretty much learning everything on-the-fly by experimentation, asking questions here, asking questions of...
Hey, thanks for that. I don't know how to actually create an axis within each part file, or how to mate to an axis for that matter, but I did create a centerline through the pipe. I then mated the midpoint of the centerline (it wouldn't let me select the centerline which I was planning to use...
A concentric mate will only match the centers of the two circles so it will not allow for movement. I need it to act like a pipe within a hole in real life - it needs to be able to move in all 3 directions and be able to tilt while in the hole.
Hey I have to model a pipe within a hole for one of my projects. I am kind of new to SolidWorks (only started using it on 5/25) and I cannot find anything to confine a cylinder within another cylinder while still allowing free movement in all directions. I have tried the advanced mate...
