Pin Slot Mate Onshape

Assembling a vise is a great way to show many of the different Onshape mates. With Onshape mates, you can create almost any motion. Let’s take a look at the mates needed to put a simple vise together.

To get started, it is important to first fix a part. In our case, the vise base is the fixed part. So let’s begin by inserting the base and fixing it.

Now that we have the base in our assembly, we can insert the other parts.

This is a video tutorial about how to use assemblies in Onshape. In assemblies, mates are used to constraints objects together to create larger, more complex. 8:43 Onshape How to use the pin slot and tangent mate. This video will illustrate how to use the pin slot mate the tangent mate. It will also illustrate how to set limits to a model and how limits work with mate constraints. Uploaded yesterday by Arthur Griffith, Jr. 15:17 Onshape: how to use the Cylindrical and planar mates (without limits). This is just a quick test of the mate features in Onshape. I build this little contraption to learn how to use the different part mates. Fusion 360 - Pin slot joint with custom direction.

There are several mates that we will use to put this assembly together. The Cylindrical mate can be used to mate the shaft of the vise to the base. The vise jaw can be mated to the vise base with a Slider mate. A limit can be applied to the Slider mate, allowing you to restrict the motion of the vise jaw and ensure it stays within the correct range.

Onshape Fastened Mate

A Revolute mate can be used to attach the vise jaw to the end of the shaft. The last mates to apply are Pin Slot mates to mate the bolts to their slots in the vise base.

Pin Slot Mate Onshape

Once all the mates are in place, you can add the Screw relation. This will give you realistic screw motion as the shaft of the vise rotates.