Assembly mates

[rcass]

I'm trying to mate a rivet to a curved face. Rivet is concentric to hole. Aligned right plane of asm and front plane of rivet parallel. Tried to add coincident, sketched point on bottom edge of rivet head with curved face. SW won't accept it. Tried with line and end point of line, both failed to work. Tried tangent between bottom face of rivet head and curved face. Each time I get a message: !(w/yellow triangle)"General surface and point are not coincident. Separation distance is ______mm." Why would it not move the rivet face tangent to the curved face? Why would it not move the point to the curved face? It used to work in previous versions of SW. SW2005 had some similar issues. This is with SW 2006 SP1. Regardless if I have a conflict with the other mates preventing tangency it should still put the point on the curved face. This should not be an issue. I'm trying to mate about 106 rivets to the same curved face so this is really irritating.

 

[yanceman]

rcass,

Create a plane tangent to the curved face within that part and mate the rivet head coincident to the plane.

yanceman

 

[rcass]

Tried to respond yesterday afternoon but for some reason I kept getting "page not found" error.??

Anyhow,

Thanks yanceman, Thought about that but was hoping for something easier than creating 20-24 planes. I've had problems in SW2005 with mating a line to a flat face but point to face has always worked. I'm in the habit of adding points and line sketches to models for ease of mating odd parts.

 

[JacoAtmon]

rcass

I tried on SW2003 and works like a dream assuming i've simulaed your condition correctly. i touched on the inside face of the rivet and the outside face of the mating part and both parts mated in tangent to one another with no problems,sounds like you may be right and there are issues with your version.