- In most assemblies, your basic mate tools work just fine.
However, sometimes you have a more complicated situation
and you need to bring in the big guns
and those aren't the advanced mate commands.
So if you head up here under mate, which is right here.
And that should pop up this window here
and you can see we have their standard mates,
but we also have the advanced mates right above it
as well as mechanical and analysis as well.
But go ahead and click on advanced right now.
And the first one I wonna show you is
the profile center one.
That allows us to take like a shape
like this and put a dead center inside
of another shape or another profile.
And this does a lot of work for us.
So if I choose this face here, spin it around
and choose that face there,
it just automatically puts those two things
in the center of each other.
We have the ability to
flip that if you'd like, which is pretty cool.
And then we can also space that away.
So if I want to type in like .5 inches,
notice it takes that and it puts it down in the block.
I can flip the dimension here so it goes this way.
I can spin it again, so something like that.
And now you've gotten a nice profile center.
So that does save having to do multiple mates,
exterior mates like a coincidental width mate.
we can do it all one shot with the profile center.
All right. The symmetry mate is pretty cool as well.
Click on that one,
and it's looking for this symmetry plane
so I can choose anything I'd like for that.
But I happen to have this plane right here
called the right plane right in the middle of my model.
And I'm going to use that as my symmetry plane,
and I'm going to choose was a couple of other faces.
So I'm going to choose this face right here,
and I'm going to spin my model around
and choose that face right there,
click okay,
and I've added a symmetry relationship between these two.
So if I move one,
they automatically move together pretty handy, right?
So that symmetry.
Okay. Next one is going to be the width mate.
Now the width mate can be used for a whole bunch of things,
but one of the things that is really powerful about
the width mate is; everything doesn't have to be perfect.
So in this case here, I've got this shape here
which I can move around and if you notice,
if I get close over here, it's obviously, you know
these lines are not parallel or anything like that.
So if I want to put this block
in the middle of that block, how would you do that?
Well, the width mates will probably help us out here.
So click on the width selections.
So I'm going to choose the two outside faces,
and then my tab, I'm going to go ahead
and choose these two inside faces of this piece
and notice it just automatically centers
this little block inside, or between these other two faces.
You can still move it forward and backwards
but it does a very good job of that dead center.
Now, if you just had a rectangle inside
of another rectangle, again
it would do a perfect job of just putting that dead center.
Okay. The path mate we're going to be
learning about in another video.
So I'm going to skip that one for right now.
And then I wonna jump over here
to the linear linear coupler.
Now this one's a little bit more complicated
but, what allows us to do is,
if we move one thing, automatically move another thing.
So my first block I want to choose is going to be
this block right here.
So here's my block,
and I'm actually going to choose this face right there.
All right. Oh, oh, hold on.
Clicked the wrong one.
Click cut there. Delete that, go back over here.
So my first block is going to be this face right there.
Okay. And then my second one's
going to be that face right over there.
So those are the two things I want to control,
and then we want to put what, what my reference component is.
So my reference component is going to be this thing here.
I'm going to use that same reference component two times
for that.
Okay. And I notice my reach down here is one to one click
and now we have it.
So if I move this block here,
notice what happens is, it also moves that other block
and notice because there's a symmetry relationship
between these two blocks
they're automatically moving as well.
So I'd say one to one relationship.
Now notice down here,
if I click on the dropdown, here's my linear linear coupler.
I can then change the ratio if I wanted to.
If I wanted to make this one three to one for instance,
click okay.
Now if I move one of these things
these other ones move three times
as fast or three times as far.
Pretty handy.
Okay. And then the limit
dimension here, this is another one that's pretty cool.
So if you wanted to limit how far something moves,
I can choose something like this.
So if go up here under, under limit,
I'm going to choose this face, this right here
and this guy right over here, and also slide together
and it's saying, hey, you've got a one inch dimension here.
And it says the maximum is one inch
and the minimum is one inch
so yeah, we didn't want that.
So let's make this the maximum five
and the minimum one
actually let's make the minimum zero.
Alright. So now we have a relationship here
so it can only get to five.
It can only go to zero.
So just, you're just limiting where the house
blocks can move in and out to.
So, real powerful there.
And then very, very similar to that one is this one here,
which is the angle.
So in this case, I'm going to choose something like that,
and maybe this guy I here, and I can define what those
I can flip the dimension back over here,
and then notice this, it says 30 degrees.
So I said, Hey, I want my maximum to be 30.
Let's make our maximum 90.
I don't, know what, it doesn't matter, you know, make
make it whatever you want, click okay,
and now this will rock back and forth between that angle.
So you can limit that rotation
or that angle with those mates.
So anyways, those are the advanced mates.
They can definitely help out
when you get into situations
you have something that is just not working
with your regular mate tools.
Definitely take a look at the advanced toolbar
there's a lot there,
and they take a little bit more effort to set 'em up
but they can definitely save the day.