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      <div class="title_topic4" id="xps10_pagetitle">Assembly Constraints</div>
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            <p class="para_defMeaning">Depending on your installation, you will either see <b class="uiTerm">Assembly Constraints</b> or <b class="uiTerm">Mating Conditions</b>. Mating conditions are directional, assembly constraints are not.
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/icons/icon_mate_component.gif" border="0"> <b class="uiTerm">Assembly Constraints</b> or <b class="uiTerm">Mate Component</b> (<b class="uiTerm">Assemblies</b> toolbar)
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning">Select a mating type.</p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning">Follow the steps to select mated faces.</p>
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            <p class="para_defMeaning">Mating conditions are displayed and edited in the <b class="uiTerm">Mating Conditions</b> dialog box. This replaces the I-deas <b class="uiTerm">Browse Relations</b> command.
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning">Mating conditions</p>
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                        <p class="para_tip_body">In NX, there are separate <b class="uiTerm">Mate</b> and <b class="uiTerm">Align</b> constraints. Use <b class="uiTerm">Mate</b> when faces contact face to face. Use <b class="uiTerm">Align</b> when faces align with surface normals pointing in the same direction.
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            <p class="para_defMeaning">Assembly constraints are displayed and edited in the <b class="uiTerm">Assembly Navigator</b>.
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            <p class="para_item"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/07qt_assemblies_16.html');return(false);">Assembly Constraints</a></p>
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         <dt><a name="ndxgenid_roadmap778"></a><a name="ndxgenid_roadmap779"></a><p class="defObject"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/commandref/ideas_rule.gif" border="0"><br><img align="bottom" src="graphics/ideas/des_as_part_equations.gif" border="0"> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/ideas/des_as_assy_equations.gif" border="0"> <b class="uiTerm">Part Equations</b>, <b class="uiTerm">Assembly Equations</b></p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><b class="uiTerm">Tools</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Expression</b></p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/08qt_drafting_15.html');return(false);">Creating drafting annotation</a></p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/08qt_drafting_15.html#qt_df_3d_annotation');return(false);">Creating 3D annotation in model views</a></p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning">Help: <img align="bottom" src="graphics/widgets/book_closed.gif" border="0"> Design &rarr; PMI
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