Limit Distance Mate in SOLIDWORKS
In SOLIDWORKS, there is a mate feature to limit the distance of entities. Based on the photo above, it indicated the distance of two selected faces is within 0 to 60 mm.
You may follow the steps below to mate the entities by using LimitDistance mate.
- Select Mate feature.
- Select LimitDistance Mate.
- You can noticed that there are upper limit and lower limit distance need to be defined. (Blue box)
- Select the two faces need to be distanced.
- Then click “OK”.
- You can move the part in graphic area and the faces will always within the limited distance.