ME 3320 Study Guide - Final Guide: Mediacorp

• School: Baylor University
• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Course: ME 3320
• Professor: Terrell

Document Summary

You can add mate references to 2 components to make them snap together effortlessly in any assembly. Quite a bit of setup has been done in order to make the handles be able to snap in automatically: You must create mate references in each of the two components to be mated. The mate references must be given the same name. The type of mate and alignment must be the same for the primary, secondary, and tertiary references. When a mate error exists you will see a warning icon next to the. A mate will give you an error if one of the mate entities are missing. Another type is a mate over-defining an assembly. Mate errors typically appear as you build an assembly. Fix errors as they arise mate errors tend to snowball. Avoid creating redundant mates redundant mates are not reported as errors, but will lead to useless mates that do not do anything at all.