Mates help 1

[prooney]

I have a piece of pipe with one end at an angle and a mating piece of pipe that has the same angle on it and I'm trying to mate the two elliptical faces together.

It won't let me do a concentric mate, what's the best way to mate these tow pieces together. Thanks.

 

[ctopher]

You can add planes or sketches on both ends and mate them together.
A pic of your issue may help.

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[gp13]

Insert a sketch on the eliptical face, and place a point concentric with the elipse. Do that for each peace, then mate the points. Then just finish up using parallel faces/planes.

 

[prooney]

Thanks guys, I went into the part file and put a point at the middle of the respective ellipses and then mated the pieces together by the points.