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FIGURE 9.8 Intersection of degrees of freedom. (From Nnaji, B.O. and Liu, H.C., 1994. With permission from the<br />

Society of <strong>Manufactur</strong>ing Engineers.)<br />

assembly constraints. Mating frames are the coordinate frames attached to mating components to describe<br />

the degrees of freedom between them (Nnaji, 1994).<br />

A mating frame is a coordinate frame of a part relative to the base coordinate frame of that part. Each<br />

component, as well as each subassembly, has its own mating frame (see Figure 9.9). We would like to<br />

find the mating frames by studying two approaches where one is to locate the origin of a mating frame<br />

and the other one is to find its orientation.<br />

Origin of mating frames can be derived from the intersection of the features that have spatial<br />

relationships assigned to them, which is the same as the intersection of degrees of freedom. The<br />

orientation of a mating frame can be derived from the normal vector of features. For three planar faceagainst<br />

relationships, if the mating face normals of one of the part’s faces are fa_1, fa_2, and fa_3, and<br />

none of them is parallel, then the Xm_a, Ym_a, and Zm_a axes of a mating frame can be decided upon<br />

as follows:<br />

Zm_a � fa_1 � fa_<br />

V_a � fa_1 � a_3<br />

Xm_a � Zm_a � V_a<br />

Ym_a � Zm_a � Xm_a<br />

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