Use the alt key to temporarily hide a face when you need to select through it.
How to make a sliding mate in solidworks.
How to create mate simple parts on solidworks.
Click mate assembly toolbar or insert mate.
Select flip dimension to move the entities to opposite sides of the dimension.
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Under mate selections select the entities to mate together for entities to mate.
This instructable is a step by step tutorial on how to create basic boxes on solidworks and mate them together.
If it isn t select the mate you re looking for and accept it.
Next select the second entity you want to mate to.
Click distance or angle.
Set distance or angle to define the starting distance or angle.
Based on the selections solidworks will guess which mate you re trying to create.
Solidworks is an extremely effective modeling tool for engineers and you can even use it to print 3d parts from a 3d printer.