Thread: Building the kitbot frame- mate the holes?
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Re: Building the kitbot frame- mate the holes?
Tanis, when working with assemblies that include cylinders, or hole features, you could also turn on your temporary axes, and use those to line up the holes correctly.
(Menu Bar) View > Temporary Axes
Also (Menu Bar) View > Planes will assist sometimes as well (as long as you right click them in the feature tree & view them as well).

Temporary axes, and planes are used frequently where I work where we make connectors to mate & line up the pieces of the assembly, but can be used in any application.

While you are learning about different mating techniques, take a look below where your normal mate commands are & pop open the Advanced Mates portion.

There are some pretty cool things in there as well that may come in handy in the future.
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