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2018 05 02 SolidWorks - Best Practices For Mates

The document provides best practices for creating mates in SolidWorks assemblies. It recommends mating components to fixed references rather than long chains, avoiding loops and redundant mates, fixing mate errors as soon as they occur, and fully defining the position of parts whenever possible.

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2018 05 02 SolidWorks - Best Practices For Mates

The document provides best practices for creating mates in SolidWorks assemblies. It recommends mating components to fixed references rather than long chains, avoiding loops and redundant mates, fixing mate errors as soon as they occur, and fully defining the position of parts whenever possible.

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12/15/2019 2018 SolidWorks - Best Practices for Mates

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Best Practices for Mates


Whenever possible, mate all components to one or two fixed components or references.
Long chains of components take longer to solve and are more prone to mate errors.

Good mate scheme

Mate scheme to avoid


Do not create loops of mates. They lead to mate conflicts when you add subsequent
mates.

Avoid redundant mates. Although SOLIDWORKS allows some redundant mates (all except
distance and angle), these mates take longer to solve and make the mating scheme
harder to understand and diagnose if problems occur.
In this assembly model, the same degree of freedom for
the blue block is defined using two distance mates,
which over defines the model. Even though the mates
are geometrically consistent (none of them are being
violated), the model is still over defined.

Drag components to test their available degrees of freedom.


Use limit mates sparingly because they take longer to solve.
Fix mate errors as soon as they occur. Adding mates never fixes earlier mate problems.

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12/15/2019 2018 SolidWorks - Best Practices for Mates
Drag components into the approximate correct location and orientation before adding
mates because this gives the mate solver application a better chance of snapping
components into the right location.
If a component is causing problems, it is often easier to delete all its mates and re-create
them instead of diagnosing each one. This is especially true with aligned/anti-aligned and
dimension direction conflicts (you can flip the direction that a dimension is measuring).
Use View Mates or expand the component in the FeatureManager design tree using
Tree Display > View Mates and Dependencies to see the mates for components.
Whenever possible, fully define the position of each part in the assembly, unless you
need that part to move to visualize the assembly motion. Assemblies with many
interrelated available degrees of freedom take longer to solve, have less predictable
behavior when you drag parts, and are prone to “nuisance” errors (errors that fix
themselves when you drag). Drag components to check their remaining degrees of
freedom.
Whenever possible, create mates in subassemblies rather than the top-level assembly to
reduce the rebuild time of the top-level assembly.
Dragging a component occasionally snaps it into place and fixes mate errors.
Suppressing and unsuppressing mates with errors sometimes fixes mate errors.
When you create mates to parts with in-context features (features whose geometry
references other components in the assembly), avoid creating circular references.

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