I am struggling to add mate references to part 104257-4 to position it to its mating part as shown in this assembly. I know how to add mate refernce (meaning to get to the mate reference option) but cannot get the correct combination of mating faces to select for the primary, secondary and tertiary refernce entity. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Scott - Thanks for your input.
I opened your assembly but I still can't use the drag and drop and have the parts mate as mentioned in my first post. Maybe I did not explain what my intention is properly. My goal here is to create a harness that contains P/N 104257-4 which will be connected to 14935-038 (which is located on a PCB). The 14935-038 will be located in the top level assembly and I will start the harness by drag and drop the 104257-4 from the library and it needs to mate to the 14935-038 using the mate reference then I can start my route. I tried this using your parts and still the library part does not mate properly during the drag and drop. Hope this makes sense. Thanks again for your help.
Mukesh,
What you said makes sense. But what it makes me wonder is if the
mate references for this connector need to be on the harness assembly
level. Does that seem right to you? What it sounds like is you are
mating this male connector while part of the harness into the receptacle.
Am I right about this?
Scott,
That is correct. The mate reference needs to be on the connector that will be part of the harness assembly. Take a look at this assembly that I did as part of the Routuing Tutorial and you will see that the mate reference is on the connector within the harness assembly.
Mukesh,
Nice job. This model reminds me of what I used to work on
at one of my old jobs.
I know nothing about routing so I can't speak to that, but can I assume that
you already tried creating the proper plains in the harness assembly on the
connector and that didn't give you favorable results? Possible that with the
one end of the harness secured that the connector end isn't allowed the freedom it needs?
Just a guess. I have used mate references before and it just appears that something
is interfering or preventing it.
Mukesh,
What about using planes like I did in your model.
Will this work for what you are trying to do?