2 Replies Latest reply on Oct 9, 2014 4:29 PM by Eric Williams

Temporarily Lock Hinge Mate

Eric Williams Oct 9, 2014 4:04 PM

I have a 6-axis robotic arm model I'm trying to properly mate in assembly. I've created pegs/holes in the various component parts to use for hinge mates. There are times when I'd like to manipulate the assembly about one of these hinge mated "axes". Is there any way to quickly and temporarily "lock" the other "axes"? Solidworks seems to try very hard to intelligently only move the degrees of freedom it needs to, but often that does not produce the desired effect.

Re: Temporarily Lock Hinge Mate

Paul Marsman Oct 9, 2014 4:08 PM (in response to Eric Williams)

Probably easiest option would be to temporarily create a lock mate between the component(s) you want to stay together.

Also, check out the what's new for 2015, they have added this ability without creating temporary mates
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  Eric Williams Oct 9, 2014 4:29 PM (in response to Paul Marsman)
  
  Thanks, Paul. That worked well. Additionally, for anyone else looking at this problem, adding them the "Favorites" makes suppressing/unsupressing them very easy.
  
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