Hi Everyone,
I have been working on mating the latches to a curved surefaces i have tried different options but have not been able to get mates properly. Could anyone give me an idea to mate tis so it look in line and can be dimensioned to give to fitters? See an image with surface of curved hatch and latches that I am using. many thanks. I have attched file a well. Below here is an image dhowing the problem
Paresh, when you post an assembly, you have to include the parts. To do that, open your assembly and use the Pack and Go tool found in the file menu.
Based on your picture, you've chosen the blue, curved edge to locate and align your latches. You need to mark where on that curve your latches are positioned. You can do this either by creating a 3D sketch and adding points along the curve that are spaced using construction geometry, or you can create reference points along the curve and set their spacing as a distance or percentage along the curve. You would then mate the latches to those points with coincident mates, align them in the direction of the other latches with a parallel mate between the corresponding faces of those latches and one of the latches that you show already mated to other parts of the assembly. Finaly, you would need to add a tangent mate between the bottom of your latch and the curved surface to set the orientation.
In SW 2014 you can create a curve-driven component pattern along that blue edge so that will save you from having to mate each latch individually.