Applying the profile center mate

In this section, we will apply the profile center advanced mate to generate the assembly shown in the following diagram. All of the parts needed for this assembly are available for you to download with this chapter. Note, in the screenshot, both the circular and hexagonal parts are in the center of the faces indicated by the numbers 1 and 3:

To generate the assembly, we can perform the following steps:

  1. Download all of the parts linked to this part and input them in an assembly file. Have the triangular prism as the fixed base part.
  2. We will first start by generating the mate between the hexagonal and side ...

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