mate assy'd with sketches?

I have two toruses, (turii, donuts) concentric and coplanar, I want to mate a rectangular piece to them with the rod "on top" of the outer donut and "on bottom" of the inner donut... imagine a long pencil stuck between your index and second fingers, the eraser end farthest from the index finger, the weight of it holding in place...

I've tried a bunch of different assy mates, without success... I think I'd have better luck by mating the sketches...

How can I apply assembly mates to part sketches?

Thanks

SW2006sp4.1

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WC
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Yes, you can mate to underlying sketches. I do this all the time. You may also want to apply a filter so you know, for sure, you are picking up a sketch point or sketch entity.

Regards,

Anna Wood

WC wrote:

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Anna Wood

Yes, you can mate to underlying sketches. I do this all the time. You may also want to apply a filter so you know, for sure, you are picking up a sketch point or sketch entity.

Regards,

Anna Wood

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I was trying to mate a sketch from part1 to a sketch from part2....no dice...

I found Mike J Wilsons stuff and dug thru his 'slot cars' technique....gotta mate a sketch to a face...it seems

Thanks for confirming, model looks and works nicely now

Happy Friday

Anna Wood wrote:

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WC,

Hmm.... I do not think I have ever tried to mate part 1 sketch to part

2 sketch. I do mate sketches to faces, planes, edge, vertex, etc. Glad you got it figured. :-)

Regards,

Anna

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Hi WC

You can mate components (ie lines circles) in a sketch in one model to sketches in another part. I use method qutie often when constructing assemblies.

I just made a quick video (10mb)

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Excellent, thanks for the input... I still can't get it to mate an arc to a point though... might not be possible, but I'll have to wait til monday to find out :o)

Thanks aga> >I was trying to mate a sketch from part1 to a sketch from part2....no > >dice...

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WC

Maybe this will work. Add a point to the arc's sketch and any relations necessary. Then mate the point on arc sketch to the point in other sketch.

Kman

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Kman

Mating sketch points coincident will work as long as the faces that the sketches are on are coincident with each other.

You could also try mating to some added Reference Geometry (i.e planes and axes).

Ken

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Tin Man

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