Lock Rotation
Starting in SOLIDWORKS 2014, you have the ability to lock rotation of concentric mates. This can help avoid additional mates required if you didn’t want the components to rotate. Review Chris’ blog post for a quick tutorial of this functionality. How to quickly tell if…
With this new SolidWorks 2014 feature you can now prevent the rotation of components that are mated with concentric mates by selecting the lock rotation option. Locked concentric mates are indicated by an icon in the FeatureManager design tree. This should effectively reduce the number…