Adding a Screw Mate

A screw mate constrains two components to be concentric, and also adds a pitch relationship between the rotation of one component and the translation of the other.

Context:

Translation of one component along the axis causes rotation of the other component according to the pitch relationship. Likewise, rotation of one component causes translation of the other component.

  1. In the work area, select a mate reference from each of the two components to be mated.

    The following are valid selection pairs:

    • Cylinder - Cylinder
    • Cylinder - Circular edge
    • Circular edge - Cylinder

    Note: For Cylinder, you can select a cylindrical face or the axis of a cylinder.

  2. From the context toolbar, click Screw .
  3. Set options in the dialog box.
  4. Click .