Mating parts with tangent and width mates

In this movie, we're going to cover the Tangent mate and also the Width mate.…The Width mate is a great tool to center one part within another.…Many times, when there is not a plane to work with, or some other easy, center-…aligning feature, the Width mate can solve the center alignment.…You can even handle the case with uneven sides or angles.…But first, let's take a look at the Tangent relationship.…So we will click on Mate, and I've got this part here.…We are going to make that so it actually rolls or slides around the outside of this part here.…That's where we are going to jump into this Tangent relationship.…

So first, I am going to select the pair.…If I click over here on this face and click on this face here, by default,…SolidWorks thinks what we want is a Concentric mate, and that would be fine for…some circumstances and I would add that.…But if we didn't, we can actually go right next to it, and it's a…Tangent relationship. Click on that one.…Notice it pushes it out and just makes the two faces tangent to each other.…