I was putting components into an assembly and was mating two faces that are parallel but when I try to mate them coincidentally or parallel, an error comes up that says:
"The components cannot be moved to a position which satisfies this mate. Planar faces are not Parallel. Angle is 0deg."
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This is not the first time this has happened, usually I just re-insert the component and it can solve the mate but thats not working this time. What could cause this?
what causes this is that the faces are not parallel - and the angle between them is small enough that it rounds to 0 with the decimal place setting of the assembly.
one reason why re-inserting the part would seem to work would be that you make the problematic mate first after the reinsertion, so there are no other mates to conflict with it.
Hi Chris,
I've seen this many times before. Sometimes there's a good reason for it, other times I can't find one. Open the extrusion and check the sketch defining the profile. See if the face you're mating to is actually horizontal or vertical. It might have a small angle on it, which would cause you trouble. Come to think of it, I faced this exact scenario yesterday. I was mating a bunch of tee nuts to extrusions and ended up having to mate them to an edge instead of a face.
Good luck.
Walter
Hi Chris,
I've seen this many times before. Sometimes there's a good reason for it, other times I can't find one. Open the extrusion and check the sketch defining the profile. See if the face you're mating to is actually horizontal or vertical. It might have a small angle on it, which would cause you trouble. Come to think of it, I faced this exact scenario yesterday. I was mating a bunch of tee nuts to extrusions and ended up having to mate them to an edge instead of a face.
Good luck.
Walter