CONTROL THE ACTION OF YOUR ASSEMBLY

Do you want to control the action of your assembly to show different position?

Look no further.

Mate Controller will help you manipulate specific mates that control degrees of freedom for a design. You can edit the positions, save and recall saved positions and mate values. You can also create animations based on the saved positions.

The allowable movement between components should be defined by adding mates to your assembly.

Supported mate types:

o Angle

o Distance

o LimitAngle

o LimitDistance

o PathMate (Distance Along Path, Percent Along Path)

o Slot (Distance Along Slot, Percent Along Slot)

o Width (Dimension, Percent)

Your assembly should include at least one supported mate type.

1. Begin by adding supported manually or use collect all supported mates automatically

2. Define the position by entering the mate values or using the slider and lock the values and add the position using.

3. Add multiple position by specifying the different value for mates.

4. Note that, at any time you can edit the value of the mates in different positions and update.

5. You can also save the positions as a new configuration.

6. View the working of the assembly by using the animation option and specify the time for each action.

7. Save the animation as a video.

With the help of this, you can easily and quickly create and show the working of your assembly to show different positions and actions.

You can communicate precisely how your product should move—and show off how your product works in general with the aid of Mate Controller.

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Common Challenges

• To make Mechanical design more efficient 
• Ready to bring own ideas into concept but reluctance to implement 
• Back to back project failures leads to high material cost & wastage 
• More number of Prototypes takes more time to complete the project 
• Prototype Cost is too high 
• Manufacturing lead time is more. Therefore, Return on Investment [ROI] will be delay 
• Project Development Cost is high since no proper documents are maintained

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