SolidWorks Mates Best Practice Tip #3

In the classic Star Trek episode "Amok Time," Kirk and Spock fight to the death over a mate. Luckily, in SolidWorks, you don't have to. In fact, you outright shouldn't. If you try to insert a mate that isn't going to work, SolidWorks has certain safeguards in place to prevent you from accidentally inserting it. Of course, if your green blood is boiling like Mr. Spock's, you can choose to fight for the mate, but you can find yourself in a lot of trouble really fast as you'll see in this next video where I fight for a mate and quickly find myself fighting with a lot of other mates:

[@juliocesardemoraesbarros5585]

Hello, is there any way to disable the arbitrary mate "over definition" system?

[@varo2234]

you r good dude....

[@eyupfirataydin4563]

hi can you help me i have the same issue but i cannot see any red mate error i add some wrong parts. when i delete them all the things are yellow how can i solve it? thanks