From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Animations
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Suppressing mates - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Animations
Suppressing mates
- [Instructor] In many cases when creating manual animations using click and drag method, I may need to suppress mates in order to allow my components to move how I'd like them to. So in this case for example let's try to make an animation of this vice closing, so I'd like this component here to kinda move in and close, so if I just try to do a click and drag here of this component, notice it's not allowing me and it's actually telling the selected component is fully defined and cannot be moved. So that means right now it has a number of mates, that's kind of locking it in so it's not really allowed to move in really any direction here. What I'm gonna have to do is suppress or temporarily turn off some of these mates in order to allow me to move this clamp. So let's take a look at how we can do this within the MotionManager, first I'm gonna click on the component here, just to see exactly what component I'm dealing with, and I can see it will highlight automatically in my assembly…
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