Multiple Parts Mating to One surface

[Cadmanto]

Is there a way to do dynamic mating?  Meaning if you have more then one part that needs to have the same surface on each part mated to one surface on another part?

[jletcher]

have you looked into imates? if you set up imates to both you can insert and the will be placed in the right spot.. You can make a composite imate if it take more then one. I use this all the time.

[Cadmanto]

No,  I didn't think of imates.  While this may not not take long to setup and create, I was looking for something even

simpler like in the mating dialog box that allowed multiple selections for parts being mated.

I will just mate them individually because that will take just seconds.

[Curtis_Waguespack]

Hi Cadmanto,

You might find the ALT + Drag method useful to help speed repetitive constraints up a bit:

http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com/2011/01/alt-drag-assembly-constraints.html

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

[Cadmanto]

Hi Curtis,

Thanks for the link.  You did answer another question I had, but never asked about and that was the key tips.

I now have a better understanding od them.

As far as the mating, I never knew about the ALT key, and that is a neat little tool, but it was convienant to use, it wasn't

quite what I was looking for.

I was looking for something more like this in Solidworks.

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