- [Narrator] One of the most powerful types
of mates is a plane to plane mate.
And it's pretty easy to create.
And in fact, each part we have in this assembly
for instance, if you look inside there,
you twirl it down you can see that
there's those three fundamental planes that you start
with on pretty much every single part.
And assemblies have the same thing,
they have that right plane, right there,
here's your top plane and your front plane, right?
So those are there and they're available.
And I can select them over here from the tree here.
If I hold down control I can select a few different planes
from different parts if I wanted to.
So in this case here, I can say, hey,
how about the, you know, maybe the right plane
of this part here, come down here to this part here
and the right plane on that part.
And that might be one way we want to do that, right?
Or you could say like, hey, here's the the right plane
of the assembly, and then come down here
to the right plane of this part here.
I could say, hey, let's make those mirrored,
or I can specify a certain distance away
from one of those things.
The problem is, is it's a little bit clunky having to go
into the feature managers, you know,
find where the part is, you know,
kind of come down here and figure where these things are.
And there's got to be a better way.
Well, guess what?
Now there is, there's this little key on your keyboard
which is the Q key.
So if you click on a part and hit Q,
it automatically brings up all the relevant planes
right there in context.
Let's try it again.
If I go over on this side of over here
I can hit the Q on my keyboard.
And again, it's going to bring up the relevant planes
of that part right there.
And then as soon as I click away, they just go away
and I don't have to show them
and then go back and hide them, do anything else like that.
So it really makes it an easy way to just grab
those relevant planes really quickly.
So let's try it out.
If I choose a mate, I'm going to go ahead
and do my mate selection.
I'm going to hover over here, I'm going to hit Q,
I'm going to say, Hey, how about that edge,
sorry, that plane right there, which is the right plane.
That part here.
And I'd say, let's go ahead and do the same thing over here.
I'm going to choose this plane right there.
I say, eh, I don't want that,
I want them to be just a distance apart.
So let's type in like five inches
and let's change it from actually,
you know what, I think I chose the wrong plane.
Let's get rid of that plane here, let's delete it.
I want the right plane, which is there, click okay,
and bam, just that quickly we're able to create that mate.
So it just allows us to kind of grab those planes
inside of a part really quickly.
Even if you don't which part
it is in the design tree, just hover over it.
Again, hit the Q, it brings it up and they go away
as soon as you're done.
Anyways, so that's the new Q key
for quick selection of planes.