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SOLIDWORKS Mate
Tech tips, tutorials, and best practices for SOLIDWORKS Mate from the Javelin technical team
My SOLIDWORKS Assembly Disappeared After Deleting Mates?!
Have you ever deleted your mates in a SOLIDWORKS assembly and then all of a sudden, the SOLIDWORKS assembly disappeared? Well, you’re not the only one and it’s an easy fix!
3 Tips for Mating Best Practices in SOLIDWORKS 2023
SOLIDWORKS assembly opening is comprised of different stages and performance checks. If foundational mating best practices aren’t applied when creating assemblies,…
Discover the Magnetic Mate in SOLIDWORKS Assemblies
SOLIDWORKS is a robust CAD software when it comes to simulating how your assemblies are going to look in real…
TriMech Tips & Tricks for SOLIDWORKS Assemblies
Do you work with SOLIDWORKS assemblies? If so, then you know that modeling, visualizing, and manipulating complex assemblies can be…
Mate Property Manager Interface Change in SOLIDWORKS 2021
The Standard, Advanced, and Mechanical mate categories found in the Mate Property Manager have now moved into tabs at the…
SOLIDWORKS Advanced Width Mate – Taking It One Step Further!
SOLIDWORKS Advanced Width Mate is very useful in centering one component (identified as tab) between two planar faces. If you…
SOLIDWORKS 2021 Lock Rotation for Slot Mates
SOLIDWORKS 2021 adds functionality to lock rotation of slot mates, similar to lock rotation of concentric mates which has been…
SOLIDWORKS 2021 Change Mate Alignments on Edit
SOLIDWORKS 2021 introduces greater automatic control over what happens when flipping a mate alignments would result in errors. Prior to…
Are you using the SOLIDWORKS Mate Pop-up Toolbar?
Mating components together in a SOLIDWORKS assembly? Frequent use of the SOLIDWORKS mate pop-up toolbar can often save you much…
Add feature tree items to a SOLIDWORKS favorites folder for quick access!
Want quick access to a feature, sketch or mate without having to scroll or search the SOLIDWORKS feature tree every…
SOLIDWORKS Animation Control using Mates
SOLIDWORKS Animations have an option called Autokey. This can be useful for simple animations where you enable the option, click…
How to Group SOLIDWORKS Assembly Mates and Fasteners into Folders
In SOLIDWORKS 2019, you can group SOLIDWORKS Assembly mates by status and separate fasteners into folders. You can group the…
SOLIDWORKS Toolbox Lock Rotation of new Concentric Mates to Components
In SOLIDWORKS 2019, any new Toolbox components can have their concentric mates rotation locked automatically. In order to activate the…
SOLIDWORKS Smart Components are a Big Time Saver for Repetitive Assemblies
If you have to assemble many clamps to your base plate, or if you have some custom parts to be…
SOLIDWORKS Mate References are a Huge Time Saver when building an assembly
Imagine you are creating an assembly with many components in it. Each component you insert into the assembly requires three…