Mating parts along a path

The Path mate is very handy when you want a part to move along a specific path,…specified by a sketch.…And to saw how it works I've got a plate here, and on the plate I've created a…sketch on the top plane to define my path. Then I've added in this little cone here,…and in the bottom of my cone I've added a point.…Now you could also use the Origin, but in case you didn't have the origin right…at the bottom of the part, you can always add a point or some type of a sketch to tie into.…So I want to make sure I go and View > Points.…

So my first mate, so I'm just going to say, at the top of this plate here, and…then I'm just going to spin around. I'm going to grab just the bottom of that…part there, and let's do a typical coincident mate.…Now I've got that plate there with the cone on top of it, and this can…slide around now.…So now what we want to do is we want to lock this cone onto that path.…To do so, I am just going to click on Mate and then come into not the Standard…Mates but beloe that, the Advanced Mates. We have one called Path Mate.…