Is there a way to set a mate tolerence? I'm trying to mate two components but I get this sillly error:
"The components cannot be moved to a position which satisfies this mate. Planar face and line are not parallel. Angle is 0.00014834deg."
Suffice to say that manufacturing tolerences etc will not allow precision to the ten-thousandth of a degree...
-you can try a limit mate with an angle but limit mates are tricky and unstable.
The problem is you've overconstrained the mates on the parts. In total, you only have 6 degrees of freedom. If you already have a coincident mate between two faces on either the components (and those mates are on the path to ground), then you've elmiinated two rotational and 1 translational degrees of freedom. Adding another coincident mate, duplicates one of the rotational constraints. If the faces were geometrically parallel, then the mate would solve because although it duplicates constraints, it doesn't produce conflicts amoung them.
Try creating the parallel mate between an edge on one component and a face on the other-or correct the geometry of the part with the fudge factor. You're shop's not gonig to build bad parts because the geometry is more precise than the tolerances indicate.