I made a cam but solidworks does not take it as a cam when I try to cam mate it. How can I mate it?

Hi Jawaid,

Have you tried searching in the forum for an answer ?

Also there are some great Youtube videos and tutorials.

Cam Mate Tutorial,, SolidWorks 2012,, HD - YouTube

Hi,

You are trying to make a 'barrel cam'. You cannot use the Standard mechanical cam mate here. In mechanical cam mate the surfaces should be a series of tangent extruded faces (faces will be perpendicular to sketch plane). In your part it is not the case.

You have to use  profile mate between the cam and a point in your follower.

Give it a shot. If you can't I can upload my files.

As Sachin has pointed, this is a barrel cam. Hence not working.

You can also use a coincident mates between that surface and a point on your follower.