{"id":965,"date":"2006-05-11T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.org\/let_your_mates_"},"modified":"2013-07-18T12:43:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T12:43:55","slug":"let_your_mates_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2006\/05\/let_your_mates_.html","title":{"rendered":"Let your mates do the work!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt; COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\"><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=522,height=346,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/blog2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Blog2\" height=\"66\" alt=\"Blog2\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/blog21.jpg\" width=\"100\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> Recently I spoke with a customer who has created a substantial library of custom part files.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt; COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">He described to me what a great time savings it was to have a standard libraries that users can simply drag and drop from. In addition to the ability to quickly re-use files, the customer was also taking advantage of an often overlooked feature called \u2018mate references\u2019.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">Significant time savings can be achieved by creating and naming mate references on standard parts. The benefit is that when a part with a pre-defined mate reference is dragged into an assembly, it will automatically \u2018snap\u2019 to a logical position.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">Additionally, if the mate reference is named, and the part it is being mated to has the same mate reference name, the parts will snap together like Lego\u00ae blocks. Taken one step further, if similar part have the same mate reference name, file replacement becomes a one step operation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt; COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt; COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">The benefit is not only time saved, but better understanding of the relationships between files.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt; COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN\"><br \/><span face=\"Times New Roman\">If you are not already doing so, I would encourage you to take advantage of this simple but valuable capability. To learn more about this capability simply review the SolidWorks on-line help topic \u2018Mate References\u2019 under the \u2018Assemblies &gt; Mates &gt; Types of Mates\u2019 section.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt; COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I spoke with a customer who has created a substantial library of custom part files. He described to me what a great time savings it was to have a standard libraries that users can simply drag and drop from.<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2006\/05\/let_your_mates_.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":3470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solidworks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}