Example: Mate Reference with Multiple Mated Entities
Components bushing, shaft01, and shaft02 each have a mate reference named shaft, defined as follows:
| Reference Entity | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary |
Secondary |
Tertiary |
||||
| Entity | Mate Type | Entity | Mate Type | Entity | Mate Type | |
bushing |
cylindrical face | concentric | planar end face | coincident | face of flat | parallel |
shaft01 |
cylindrical face | concentric | planar end face | coincident | face of flat | parallel |
shaft02 |
cylindrical face | concentric | planar end face | coincident | --- | --- |
If bushing is a component of an assembly, and you insert shaft01 into the assembly, the components mate automatically. However, if you insert shaft02 into the assembly, it does not mate automatically with bushing because their mate references do not contain the same number of entities.
| bushing01 and shaft01 mate automatically | bushing01 and shaft02 do not mate automatically |