What is the easiest and fastest way to multi-mate severl screws to several holes in a solidworks assembly.
What I'm doing now in the mate function, is clicking each face of the screw and mating it with the base's face, the doing a concentric function on each. Is there any better way to just select all the screws and all the holes and let solidworks mate them for me. Never had such a hard time with mating in my life....
If you create the fastener from a Toolbox fastener, you can use smart mates. When you drag the screw into the assembly it will "snap" to the face of the plate and center on one of the holes.
After assembling the first screw, you can create a feature driven component pattern to get the remaining screws.
Mark
Hi Alex,
Welcome to the forums. You can create a Mate Reference inside of the screw and use this Mate Reference to quickly mate the screw into your hole(s). Check out the attached video.
Jody
Alex,
Welcome to the forum. Another option would be to mate the first screw, then RMB on it and choose "Copy with Mates". Then you can choose to repeat the coincident mate, and choose a new hole for the concentric mate. It'll go pretty fast.
Hi!
I recently learnt how to do the same thing via: http://youtu.be/2CevUV4HxpI
To define your own custom smart fastners and do all that "smart mates" stuff, check out: http://youtu.be/TDNIrsj8EvI
J
Sorry, no SolidWorks here...
Are your holes by any chance Hole Wizard holes? Use a Feature Driven Pattern.
As Josh said......
Use Hole Wizard to create your hole patterns. Then use Feature Driven Patterns. They work for much more than fasteners.
Cheers,
Anna
Thanks everybody! I've taken little bits of everyones advice and feel confident the rest of my assemblies will go together much more quicker.
Thanks,
Alex
Welcome to SolidWorks forums Alex.
Please check the "Screw Mate" http://help.solidworks.com/2012/English/SolidWorks/sldworks/Screw_Mate.htm
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