i_r_machinist
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How to make pipe tangent to plate in SW?
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ewlsey
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There is a tangent mate.
Better would be to create and axis at the center of the pipe. Use that axis to mate two perpendicular planes. Then use the planes to mate the part using the offset mate. This is also the best way to mate it from the side of the plate.
Better would be to create and axis at the center of the pipe. Use that axis to mate two perpendicular planes. Then use the planes to mate the part using the offset mate. This is also the best way to mate it from the side of the plate.
HOTTRODZZ
Plastic
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Tan mate and Angle mate on planes.
Or Sketch just what you want it to do and mate to lines.
3D Rich
you should be using weldments in a part file, uses multiple bodies.
it will give you a cut list for all the bodies, like a BOM.
that way you just sketch and extrude like you would any feature in a part, simple, no mating.
but if I was doing this in an assembly I would do this top down (not make the part then insert it in the assembly- called bottom up), meaning edit part in the assembly and you would draw the sketch on a face\plane in position and extrude it up to a face to control the length or blind dim.
it will give you a cut list for all the bodies, like a BOM.
that way you just sketch and extrude like you would any feature in a part, simple, no mating.
but if I was doing this in an assembly I would do this top down (not make the part then insert it in the assembly- called bottom up), meaning edit part in the assembly and you would draw the sketch on a face\plane in position and extrude it up to a face to control the length or blind dim.
i_r_machinist
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I'll youtube that top down method. I haven't worked that before.
Thanks
i_r_
Thanks
i_r_
i_r_machinist
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Selected to face of the plate and thye od of the tube, tangent mate popped up.
thanks for the help
i_r_
thanks for the help
i_r_