Hello, I'm 2 weeks into my first Solidworks experience,coming from Autocad and never knew how awesome Solidworks is. I'veworked thru about 85% of the tutorials and searched thru the forumand didn't see anything that answers my question.

We bought Solidworks to design pump skids for our client. I'mtrying to build a pump skid with pvc piping/fittings. Is there away to create a smart mate so that when I drag in a fitting or pipeit autmatically mates coincident and concentric to thepipe/fitting? With it being pvc, fittings are "female", pipe is"male", how do I get the mate to butt up against the inside of thefitting "smartly" so that my cut lengths are correct and the pipeis not just butted up to the edge of the fitting.

I've worked thru the assembly mates tutorial, milling machine and Iwant it to work similiar to when you drag the pillar part and presstab key several times to toggle the alignment and it automaticallycreates a coincident & concentric mate.

I hope I explained my question well enough, thanks in advance forany advice and I hope to contribute tips/ideas myself once I getmore familiar with the software in the future.

Thank You





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