Save assembly construction time with SOLIDWORKS SmartMates!

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Rather, SmartMates can be created while keeping your mouse pointer in the graphics view at all times! SOLIDWORKS will then offer you some kind of alignment preview and, if you choose to accept it, mate will be automatically created! If, rather than releasing the mouse button, you keep dragging onto different faces or edges, then the alignment preview may change. 😀 When setting up SOLIDWORKS SmartMates, it helps to orient both components-to-be-mated such that both of the necessary entities are visible (and selectable) at the same time. In this case, we rotate the red knob so that the edge of interest is visible and selectable.

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