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Re: Alignment with mates
Daniel,
We can't open the Assembly without having the Part files. Please Pack and Go the Assembly to a zip folder and post it here.
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Re: Alignment with mates
I am sorry Glen, it was a silly mistake. please see the attached.
Many thanks, Daniel.
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Re: Alignment with mates
Okay, I have your files open, but I'm afraid I don't have a clue what you're trying to do. Can you please explain further?
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Re: Alignment with mates
Are you familiar with reference Axis? I would make one through the center of your Spring, then use this to mate to the Cylinders. I am assuming the Spring needs to be concentric with the cylinders?
Reference Axis, like a Reference Plane.
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Re: Alignment with mates
Mark Kaiser wrote:
I am assuming the Spring needs to be concentric with the cylinders?
That was my thought, but that would be easy enough to do in his Assembly. His Front and Right Planes in the Spring and in one of the parts in the cylinder are going down the center of each, so two coincident mates would accomplish that. However, there's an Angle mate that would have to be suppressed or deleted to allow that to happen.
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Re: Alignment with mates
Thank you for all your answers. I am too well aware that I have difficulty doing stuff that you guys find easy.
I did try to get an axis in the spring but I failed to do this in the assembly. Following the advice here, I tried again and finally got an axis in there in the part. This successfully aligned the spring so it ran parallel to the middle silencer.
Thank you again for all the replies.
Daniel.
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Re: Alignment with mates
Yes. As a general rule, put your reference geometry in at the part level, not the assembly level. Then, you can use the references created in the parts to mate them to each other.
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