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TNTimothy Nagi15/02/2013

Hello Everyone,

I'm inserting 82 degree flat head screws into countersunk holes in my assembly, and the default mate when I drag and drop seems to be a coincident mate between the countersink and the conical underside of the screw head -- which is exactly what I want.  However, the default orientation does not have the two conical faces parallel.  I realize I can just press Tab to flip the orientation, but it seems slightly ridiculous to have to do that when I would think it's obvious that the two faces should be in the orientation that makes them parallel.

Does anyone know of a way to switch the default mate orientation on this?  I'm going to be using quite a few of these screws, and it would probably save me some time in the long run if the default orientation was the correct orientation.

Thanks!