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Mechanical Mates

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Mechanical Mates

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- [Tutor] Mechanical mates are really cool because we can create functional motion between components. Let's go ahead up here to the assembly tool bar, click on mate and go ahead and twirl up the standard mates and come down here to the mechanical mates and twirl that one down. So the very first of the mechanical mates is the cam mate. So I'm going to choose the cam path which is going to be the outside of this piece here and I'm going to choose the cam follower which is this piece right over here. Those slide together, click on okay, and now we've created that mate. If I spin this component around here, notice what happens is that little cam follower just follows this cam path. Pretty handy. The next one is the slot mate, slot mate. I'm going to go ahead and choose a slot and then what I'd like to be inside of the slot which is going to be that little pin, click on okay and now that little pin should slide inside of…

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