Mating the Saddle and Knee

Add mates to define relationships between the assembly components.

1. Click Mate (Assembly toolbar).

To make selections easier, rotate the view by dragging with the middle mouse button in the graphics area. Then, after making the selection, click Previous View (View toolbar). Other tools on the View toolbar are useful as you work through this tutorial.

2. Select the top face of the knee and the bottom face of the saddle for Entities to Mate .

The Mate pop-up toolbar appears in the graphics area. Coincident is selected in both the PropertyManager and the pop-up toolbar. A preview of the coincident mate appears.

3. To see how you can flip the alignment of the saddle, under Standard Mates, for Mate alignment:

1. Click Aligned .

2. Click Anti-Aligned .

A closer look at Mate Alignment

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