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Beginner's Guide to SOLIDWORKS 2019- Level I

24.6. -Another way to add parts to an assembly is by dragging them directly from

Windows Explorer. Open the folder where the assembly components are saved,

and drag-and-drop the 'Worm Gear Shaft' part directly into the assembly window.

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24.7. - After adding the 'Worm Gear Shaft' to the assembly, rotate it to a position

that will allow us to see both of the edges to be mated; a limitation of using

SmartMates is that we have to be able to see both of the entities to be mated. Hold

down the "Ait" key, and click-and-drag the 'Worm Gear Shaft's' edge to the 'Side

Cover's' hole to add a "Peg-in-Hole" mate.

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In this particular case, mating the outside edges of both the shaft and the

cover would work exactly the same, since all outside edges are concentric

to the inside edges.

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