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Asset Publisher for magnetic mates

Asset Publisher for magnetic mates - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Asset Publisher for magnetic mates

- [Instructor] In order to use magnetic mates, we first need to establish some connectors using the Asset Publisher. To get started, let's go ahead up here to Tools, and come down here to Asset Publisher. Click on that one there. And, now, we want to properly establish a ground plane. Now, we don't necessarily need to have a ground plane, especially if you have a component that's up in the air and it's not going to be snapped down to the floor. But in this case a ground plane's going to make a whole lot of sense. So let's go ahead and choose a ground plane. And click on that one there, and notice it has got this arrow here facing down. That means that's going to be going down that direction to the floor. So that works just fine. And let's go ahead and not establish any distance between the ground and the bottom of the component. So let's go ahead and leave that as zero. Now, as far as our connector, we want to add a connector on either side of this component, so it snaps together with…

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