SOLIDWORKS - 2018 CSWP Practice - Gear Mate and other assembly tips

Learn how to use the gear mate and other fun tricks in assemblies!
grabcad.com/library/solidwork...
P.S. I apologize for the subpar audio quality, my primary audio got corrupted and had to use the backup audio. Hope it's still watchable!

[@TaiwaCanEat]

Thanks a lot sir! I just got certified as CSWP today!

[@VirtualFlat]

That was well earned!!! Congratulations!

[@BradAnderson153]

Great exercise! Greatly appreciated!!!

[@sbesseling]

Instead of making a coincident mate and suppressing it later on, you could also make a coincident mate and check the "Use for positioning only" box under the options bar in the mate feature.

[@damland1357]

cool tip, thanks!

[@chrisblight6069]

Interesting video, learning something new towards CSWP.

[@VirtualFlat]

Thanks for watching! I am sure this knowledge will prepare you well!

[@MultiLB3]

Very useful, thanks!

[@mc88dx]

Very useful tutorial for the exam.

[@tobiasjakobsen2872]

First off, thank you for a lot of good videos, nice to see other workflows in Solidworks.
I would however recommend you the "Copy With Mates" function, then the faces of the copy and mate types is pre-selected. Works with a group of components in an assembly as well (instead of making a temporary sub assembly), eg, nut, Washers and bolts.
If those components only refer internally( eg all to the first placed washer) then you get a lot of speed in inserting a lot of components, assuming no underlying pattern can be used.

[@VirtualFlat]

That's actually a good point! I definitely missed a good opportunity to use it to save the work of making an identically mated gear and linkage on the other side.
The only thing is that it can bit confusing for a beginner to pick up (in terms of deciding what mates to repeat and what new faces to select etc.)
It's a tool that really deserves its own video! I super appreciate your comment because many people probably discovered a new tool for their arsenal and became better users (and that's what this channel is all about!) Thanks again for watching and sharing your tip and I apologize for the delay in response.

[@xtra-air]

thanks for sharing

[@imtiaze2k9]

useful thanks

[@DR.BELJAN]

I don't know what happening with my model in the final position of 100 for the left slider. I set up gear mate as per your instructions and when I manually slide the left slider, right-one move as well. But when I set distance mate of 100 for left-one, the right-one not move and he stays on the last position created by manual movement. Why the right slide does not update? Anyone have the same problem? Let me know as today is my test.
Thanks

[@mohcen011195401]

Thanx bro

[@VirtualFlat]

Thank you for watching and commenting!

[@mertcapkin7263]

Why are you not using the 'copy with mates' option?

[@calvinmahendra7885]

could we use tangent mate instead of slot mate ?

[@mh.athari9643]

Can you please add the link to the exercise parts? Thank you.

[@VirtualFlat]

It's up now! Thanks for watching!
grabcad.com/library/solidworks-gear-mate-practice-1

[@rohansanyal9234]

ayyy lmao

[@donepearce]

I'm not sure I like that ability to override the gear ratio. It looks like SolidWorks has provided you the ability to foul up royally. If it has to be offered there should be warning flags on every subsequent view.

[@VirtualFlat]

I think the reason that the option is offered is that the designer has more flexibility is how he wants his design to be represented in CAD. For example, they can model a gear as a simple disc with the major diameter to use for collision detection purposes, but then type in the pitch diameter to make the gear ratio accurate. Another is that in an imported model of a gear, geometry to represent the pitch diameter of the gear might not even exist, so being able to just punch in the value is convenient.
But otherwise, I completely agree with you about warning the user that the ratio has been overridden. Some mates will have different icons when in different states (i.e. unlocked concentric mates vs locked concentric mates), but I believe nothing like that exists for the gear mate in particular and there really should. Next time I'm at the SolidWorks convention, I will mention to the product development team that they should implement something like a different icon, or a different color icon for overridden gear ratios.
Thanks for watching and thanks for commenting!