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Contents
Day One 29 April 2008
Module 1: Introduction to SolidWorks and Basic Sketching..................................... 1 Introduction to SolidWorks........................................................................................1 SolidWorks user interface & Toolbar menus .......................................................2 FeatureManager Design Tree ...............................................................................4 Keyboard shortcuts and mouse buttons..............................................................5 Tools-Options .........................................................................................................6 Basic 2D sketching....................................................................................................9 Sketch Entities/Geometry.................................................................................. 10 Status of a sketch............................................................................................... 11 Sketch Relations................................................................................................. 12 Tutorial 1.1: Sketch a Simple Nut with Circle and Polygon ............................. 20 Tutorial 1.2: Using 3D sketch ............................................................................ 21 Tutorial 1.3: Apply Add Relations between Sketch Entities . 22 Exercise 1.1: Sketching Horizontal and Vertical Lines..................................... 23 Exercise 1.2: Sketching Lines............................................................................ 23 Exercise 1.3: Sketching using Rectangle and Circle........................................ 24 Exercise 1.4: Sketching a Chair Frame using 3D sketch................................. 24 Module 2: Additional Sketching ............................................................................... 25 Tutorial 2.1: Creating a Flat Bar ............................................................................ 26 Tutorial 2.2.............................................................................................................. 31 Tutorial 2.3.............................................................................................................. 33 Exercise 2.1 ........................................................................................................ 35 Exercise 2.2 ........................................................................................................ 36 Module 3: Basic Part Modeling ................................................................................ 37 Sketching and Creating Bosses............................................................................. 38 Creating a Counterbore Hole ............................................................................. 41 Cut Feature ......................................................................................................... 43 Filleting................................................................................................................ 46 Chamfering.......................................................................................................... 47 Define Material and Mass Properties ............................................................... 48 Editing features .................................................................................................. 49 Exercise 3.1: Glass Plate ....................................................................................... 51 Exercise 3.2: Bracket ............................................................................................. 51 Exercise 3.3 ............................................................................................................ 52 Exercise 3.4: Gland ................................................................................................ 52 Exercise 3.5: PVC Tee Pipe .................................................................................... 54
Tutorial 4.2: Vary Sketch option ........................................................................ 63 Exercises 4.1: Curve Driven Pattern.................................................................. 64 Swept....................................................................................................................... 65 Tutorial 4.3: Creating a Worm Gear .................................................................. 66 Tutorial 4.4: Creating a Spring........................................................................... 67 Tutorial 4.5: Creating a Bottle (with a guide curve).......................................... 68 Lofted ...................................................................................................................... 69 Tutorial 4.6: Create lofted part with Centerline Parameters ........................... 70 Exercises 4.2: Chisel .......................................................................................... 72 Rib and Shell........................................................................................................... 76 Tutorial 4.7: Using Shell to create wall thickness inside the Bottle................ 77 Module 5: Assembly Modeling ................................................................................. 78 Assembly toolbars .................................................................................................. 81 Basic assembly mates ........................................................................................... 81 Sliding Brace Assembly .......................................................................................... 82 Exploding and collapsing the assembly ................................................................ 93 Creating an explode line sketch ............................................................................ 94 Module 6: Drawing.................................................................................................... 96 Drawing toolbars..................................................................................................... 97 Insert standard drawing views - Angle of projections........................................... 97 Insert Component into Drawing............................................................................. 98 Adding dimensions to drawing and modifying dimensions ............................... 100 Create Section View.............................................................................................. 101 Insert a Note ......................................................................................................... 105 Edit Sheet Format................................................................................................. 106 Assembly Drawing ................................................................................................ 112 Elements of an Assembly Drawing ...................................................................... 112 Example of Assembly Drawing............................................................................. 112 Opening drawing template and edit Sheet Format ............................................ 113 Adding the Exploded View.................................................................................... 114 Creating Bill of Materials (BOMs) ........................................................................ 115 Customizing BOMs ............................................................................................... 116 AutoBalloons......................................................................................................... 116 Producing an e-drawing file ................................................................................. 118 Exercises 6.1:.................................................................................................... 119 References ..............................................................................................................120
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Main Menu
Menus It provides access to all commands that the SolidWorks offers. When a menu item has a right pointing arrow, it means there is a sub-menu associated with the choice,
When a menu item is followed by a series of dots, it means that option opens a dialog box with additional choices or information.
Toolbars menus Provide shortcuts enabling to quickly access the most frequently used commands. They are organized according to function and can be customized, removed and rearranged according to your preferences.
Example of a Toolbar Standard toolbar as shown below contains commonly used function as opening new or existing documents, saving documents, printing, copying and pasting objects, undo, redo, and help.
You can turn toolbars on and off using one of three methods. 1. Click Tools Customize. On the Toolbars page, click the check boxes to select each toolbar you want to display. Clear the check boxes of the toolbars you want to hide.
2. Right click on toolbar area of the SolidWorks window. Check marks indicate which toolbars are currently visible. Clear the check marks of the toolbar you want to hide.
The FeatureManager design tree makes it easy to: Select items in the model by name. Identify and change the order in which features are created. You can drag items in the FeatureManager design tree list to reorder them. This changes the order in which features are regenerated when the model is rebuilt. Display the dimensions of a feature by double-clicking the features name. Rename items by slowly clicking two times on a name to select it and then entering a new name. Suppress and Unsuppress part features and assembly components.
The PropertyManager appears on the PropertyManager tab in the panel to the left of the graphics area. It opens when you select entities or commands defined in the PropertyManager. OK. Accept the selections, execute the command, and close the PropertyManager. Cancel. Ignore any selections and close the PropertyManager. Title bar Help. Open the corresponding help topic. Preview. Display a preview of the feature.
The ConfigurationManager on the left side of the SolidWorks window is a means to create, select, and view multiple configurations of parts and assemblies in a document. The icons in the ConfigurationManager denote how the configuration was created: Manually With a design table Manually, and has an explode state With a design table, and has explode state
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Three mouse buttons Left to select objects as geometry, menus buttons, and objects in the FeatureManager design tree. To select multiple items, you must hold down the Control (Ctrl) key. To deselect object, simply click anywhere in a blank (empty) portion of the work area. Right activates a context sensitive shortcut menu. The contents of the menu is differ depending on what object the cursor is over. Middle use for dynamically rotating, panning, zooming a part or assembly. o Rotate part or assembly Holding down the middle button and drag the mouse o Zoom all document types Hold down the Shift key while depressing the middle button and moving the mouse. (Simply rotates the wheel of the middle mouse button for zooming in or out if your middle mouse button is a wheel.) o Pan all document types Hold down the Ctrl key while depressing the middle button and drag the mouse.
Tools-Options
The Options dialog box able you to customize the SolidWorks software based on your preferences. Level of customization: System Options
Every option under System Options will affect every document you open in SolidWorks session. For example, the viewport background, if you set the color to Black, it will remain as black every time you open the SolidWorks window until you change to another color.
Example: Set Viewport Background to White
Document Properties
This setting only applied to individual documents. For example, units, drafting standard, material properties, image quality etc. They are saved with the document and do not change.
Example: Setting Units
Sketch Entities/Geometry (Types of 2D geometry such as lines, circles and rectangles that make up the sketch)
Sketch Relations (Geometric relationships such as horizontal and vertical are applied to the sketch entities. The relations restrict the movement of the entities)
State of the sketch (Each sketch has a status that determines whether it is ready to be used or not. The state can fully-, under- or over defined)
Sketch tools (Tools can be used to modify the sketch geometry that has been created/ this often involves the trimming or extension of the entities)
Extruding the sketch (Extruding uses the 2D sketch to create a 3D solid feature)
Sketch Entities/Geometry
SolidWorks offers a rich variety of sketch tools for creating profile geometry.
Sketch entity Line Toolbar button Geometry example
Circle
Tangent Arc
Ellipse
Partial Ellipse
Parabola
Spline
Polygon
Rectangle
Parallelogram
Point
Centerline
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Status of a sketch
The most common color codes are:
No. Color Diagnostic Under constrained 1. Blue (this is usually appears when first drawn) Case
Fully constrained (when more constraints and dimensions are added to the sketch the sketch become completely defined)
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Black
Over constrained (adding any dimension to fully defined would serve to overdefine the sketch)
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Red
Only case 1 and 2 are allowable. For case 3, you must fix the error as soon as possible before quitting the sketch mode otherwise a warning message will popout and it will create more problems for yourself.
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Sketch Relations
The following table describes the entities that you can select for a relation and the characteristics of the resulting relation. Relation Horizontal or Vertical Entities to select One or more lines or two or more points. Resulting relations The lines become horizontal or vertical (as defined by the current sketch space). Points are aligned horizontally or vertically. The items lie on the same infinite line. The items share the same centerpoint and radius. The two items are perpendicular to each other. The items are parallel to each other. The line is parallel to the selected plane. The two items remain tangent.
Collinear Coradial
Perpendicular Two lines. Parallel Two or more lines. A line and a plane (or a planar face) in a 3D sketch. An arc, ellipse, or spline, and a line or arc. Two or more arcs, or a point and an arc. Two lines or a point and a line. Two lines and one point. A point and a line, arc, or ellipse. Two or more lines or two or more arcs. A centerline and two points, lines, arcs, or ellipses. Any entity.
Tangent
The arcs share the same centerpoint. The point remains at the midpoint of the line. The point remains at the intersection of the lines. The point lies on the line, arc, or ellipse. The line lengths or radii remain equal. The items remain equidistant from the centerline, on a line perpendicular to the centerline. The entitys size and location are fixed. However, the end points of a fixed line are free to move along the infinite line that underlies it. Also, the endpoints of an arc or elliptical segment are free to move along the underlying full circle or ellipse. The two points are merged into a single point.
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SolidWorks Training (Basic) A line may be constrained vertically or horizontally. Once the line is drawn horizontally, it will remain horizontal unless the relation is removed. The line can be repositioned and resized but must remain horizontal. For an instance:
Where to find it Select the sketch entity or entities, and select the appropriate relation from the Add Relations section of the PropertyManager
Or, right click the entity or entities, and select Add Relation from the short-cut menu Or, click Tools, Relations, Add Or, on the Sketch toolbar click Add Relation
You can view all relations in your sketches by select View Sketch Relations
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1. Open SolidWorks 2007. 2. Select New from the File menu, or click on the New icon on the Standard toolbar. 3. Select the type of new file (Part, Assembly, or Drawing) from the New SolidWorks Document window.
4. Click OK. 5. Open a new Sketch. Open the sketch by either clicking or choosing Sketch from the Insert menu. This will show all three default planes for selection in a trimetric orientation. From the screen, choose the Front Plane. The plane will highlight and rotate.
6. Sketch active. The selected Front Plane rotates so it is parallel to the screen.
8. Saving your Work. It is a good habit to save your work right way. Always bear in mind to save regularly and often. Select Save from the File menu, or click Save icon on the Standard toolbar.
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SolidWorks Training (Basic) 9. Linear dimensions. Add additional linear dimensions to the sketch as shown.
Where to find it? Tools menu, select Dimensions, Smart Or Right click, select Smart Dimension Or Dimensions/Relations toolbar, pick Smart Dimension tool,
10. Angular dimension. Using the dimension tool, create the angular dimension shown and set the value to 125.
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SolidWorks Training (Basic) 11. Fillets. Click Sketch Fillet and set the Radius to 10 mm. Select all of the endpoints in the sketch. Click OK.
Sketch Fillets are used to round off sharp corners in a sketch. Where to find it? Tools menu, select Sketch Tools, Fillet. Or Sketch toolbar, click Sketch Fillet
12. Extrude menu. Click Insert, Boss/Base, Extrude or the to access the command tool on the Features toolbar
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a. Change the value of angular dimension Double click on 125 and modify to 110. Youll see that other dimensions remain unchanged.
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Modified part
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from the Sketch toolbar. Sketch a circle centered at the origin. Give dimension as illustrated.
5. Click Tools Sketch Entities Polygon from the Menu bar. Sketch a Polygon centered to the origin larger than the circle.
6. Extrude to 8 mm depth.
We can create equilateral polygons with any number of sides from 3 to 40. Parameters This box allows you to define the number of sides. Other parameters will automatically update when this parameter is modified.
Circumscribed circle
Inscribed circle
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You can change the plane sketch by pressing the Tab key
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Tutorial 1.3: Sketch part using Lines, 3 Point Arc, Tangent Arc and apply Add Relations between Sketch Entities
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Extrude to 80 mm depth
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The completed figure used Swept feature that you will learn in Module 4
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Select both Centerline and Origin Point (press Ctrl key while selecting) and choose Midpoint as their relations.
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Select the right and left vertical lines to remove. from the Sketch toolbar.
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16. Editing a. Reduce the number of holes to 5 Right click on Extrude and select Edit Sketch ii. Select one of the Circle and right click and choose Edit Linear Pattern i.
iii. Change the number of holes from 9 to 5 and the distance between each holes to 50 mm
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b. Change the Sketch Plane i. Expand the Extrude. Right click on Sketch and select Edit Sketch Plane.
ii. You will see shows the Front Plane, which denotes your previous sketch plane.
v. Click OK and you will see that the sketch plane is now changed to Top Plane.
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We can see all relations between the sketch entities. Tangent between arc and circle
Coincident Horizontal
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Select Mirror from the sketch toolbar and mirror the entity with respect to the vertical Centerline.
9. Next, Mirror with the horizontal Centerline. 10. Select Ellipse from the sketch toolbar and complete all dimensions as shown in figure below.
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5. 6.
Create another Circle by using Offset Type 7 mm as distance parameter outside the first Circle.
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Sketch one Line which 6.15 mm from the vertical Centerline and Mirror about the Centerline. Then Trim the lines carefully until you get as similar as in figure below. If you pick a wrong line, you may Undo the step.
Trimming 8. 9. Select Tools Sketch Tools Circular Pattern . Select the lines and insert 8 as your number of pattern instances.
10. Trim the lines 11. Extrude to 10 mm and save your part.
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Exercise 2.2: Create a solid model of this 2 mm thick steel bicycle disk rotor.
(25 minutes)
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Features
Pattern/mirror
Some of the icons (which are not circled) will be seen during Module 4 Additional Part Modeling. On the completion of this module, you will be able to: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Sketch at any planes, Utilize extruded boss and extruded cut, Create fillet and chamfer at the selected edges, Create standard holes by applying the Hole Wizard, Find the mass of your part and Edit or manipulate features geometry to reduce or increase the mass properties of the component.
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4. Sketch as shown in figure below. Add dimensions to the sketch. Equal length
5. Extrude 10 mm upwards.
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6. lnsert new sketch. Create a new sketch using Insert, Sketch or by clicking the Sketch tool.
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SolidWorks Training (Basic) 11. Choose Counterbore. Set the properties of the hole as follows: Standard: Ansi Metric Screw Type: Hex Bolt ANSI B18.2.3.5 Size: M8 Fit: Normal End Condition: Through All 12. Turn to Hole Position.
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SolidWorks Training (Basic) 14. Completed Hole. Click Finish to complete the hole feature.
Cut Feature
15. Press the spacebar and double-click *Front. Start a sketch on this large face and add a rectangle Coincident with the bottom model edge.
16. Select the left vertical sketch line and the vertical model edge. Add a Colinear relation between them. (Hold down the Ctrl key and then select the objects) Repeat the process on the opposite side.
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18. Through All Cut. Click Insert, Cut, Extrude, Or pick Extruded Cut on the Features toolbar.
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SolidWorks Training (Basic) Holes 19. Change the view orientation. Press the spacebar and double-click *Top.
20. Hole. Click the Hole tab and set the properties of the hole as follows: Standard: Ansi Metric Screw Type: Drill sizes Size: 12.5 End Condition: Through All 21. Turn to Hole Position and locate the holes.
22. Set Dimensions add relation so that these points are aligned horizontally.
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Filleting
24. lnsert Fillet. Set a radius = 10 mm
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SolidWorks Training (Basic) 25. Add fillets at selected edges and face, radius 2.5 mm, and using Full preview.
Chamfering
26. Add chamfer to the holes.
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SolidWorks Training (Basic) 30. Drop down menus, Tools Mass Properties
Editing features
31. Mass of the part can be reduced by modified the thickness of the features. 32. Right click on Extrude and select Edit Feature.
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34. Click OK. 35. Check the current mass of the part. Now, the mass is 326.09 g which means more than 30 % of mass has been reduced.
36. The Cut Feature is still maintaining the dimension to be 2.50 mm from the bottom face.
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R20 fillet
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Create this part using the information and dimensions provided. Sketch and extrude profiles to create the part. (10 minutes)
Exercise 3.3:
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Start sketching
Give dimensions
Trimming
Mirror
Extrude 10 mm
Complete part Sketch circle with 70 mm diameter and extrude 10 mm Sketch another circle with 48 mm diameter and extrude cut 15 mm
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Sockets are to be tapered 0.50 degrees Set the material to PVC Rigid (density=1300kg/m3) and find the mass of the tee. (Answer: Weight =70.63 g)
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Revolved features
Revolved Boss/Base material added by rotating the profiles about a centerline Revolved Cut material removed by rotating the sketch The Revolve parameters box provides the ability to select:
Allow a small gap between rectangle and the centerline to create a hollow cylinder
Centerline
One of the lines is collinear with the centerline to make a solid cylinder
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Tutorial 4.1:
1. Draw a Centerline across the Origin
3. Exit the sketch and select Revolve from Features toolbar. Select the Centerline as the Axis of Revolution.
It rotates clockwise
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4. The direction of rotation and its angle can be changed, i.e. 180.
5. Click OK.
6. To edit the feature. Right click Revolve and select Edit Feature.
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9. Sketch a Circle and tick For construction box. The line will turn to construction line.
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10. Sketch a small Circle and coincident with the construction line.
12. The hole will be copied around the face by using Circular Pattern. Click View Temporary Axes. The axis will be used as axis of rotation.
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13. Select Circular Pattern from Features toolbar. Number of holes are 6.
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Patterning
In Module 2, you have learnt the sketch pattern such as linear and circular pattern. There are other pattern tools that are available in SolidWorks. You may find them at Insert Pattern/Mirror. Pattern repeats the selected features in an array based on a seed feature. You can create a linear pattern, a circular pattern, a curve driven pattern, a fill pattern, or use sketch points or table coordinates to create the pattern.
Linear pattern Select the features, then specify the direction, the linear spacing, and the total number of instances. Select the features and an edge or axis as the center of rotation, and then specify the total number of instances and the angular spacing between instances. Select the features and an edge or sketch segment on which to pattern the feature. Then you can specify the type of curve, the curve method, and the alignment method. Fill a defined region with a pattern of features or a predefined cut shape. Typical uses include: Weight reduction Ventilation holes Select where to populate a seed feature by sketching points on model face, or Add or retrieve previously created X-Y coordinates to populate a seed feature on the face of the model.
Circular pattern
Fill pattern
But remember, the commands are only enable when you have multi body parts.
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Sketch a slot on top of 3D part and give dimensions Hint: 8 mm at both sides will control the distance between the arcs and the plate edges.
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Offset 5 mm
Select the Circle and add relations with the Offset line to be coincident
Select the Extruded Cut feature and go to Insert-Pattern/Mirror-Curve Driven Pattern Select the Offset Spline as the direction Spacing and Instances: 20
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Swept
Swept Boss/Base material added by sweeping a profile along the path Cut Sweep material removed by sweeping a profile along the path
Follow path the section remains at the same angle with respect to the path at all times. Sample of applications:
Keep Normal Constant the section remains parallel to the beginning section at all times.
Power cord
Spiral coil
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Sketch the profile (or the sketch can be taken from Tutorial 2.3, but you have to modified a bit)
Completed part
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Sketch a Circle
Completed spring
Select Swept. The Circle will be the Profile and Helix/Spiral is the Path.
Create a Profile
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Lofted
Loft creates a feature by making transitions between profiles. A loft can be a base, boss, cut, or surface. You create a loft using two or more profiles. Only the first, last, or first and last profiles can be points. All sketch entities, including guide curves and profiles, can be contained in a single 3D sketch.
You can drag to modify/change the location of these blue points (closing point)
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2. Select and sketch 3 Point Arc at other Top Plane. One of its end points must coincident with the Origin.
3. View in Isometric.
4. Create a Plane Normal to Curve. You have to select the Arc and Point.
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6. Select Loft from Feature toolbar. Select Sketch 1 and Sketch 3 (both Rectangles) as the profiles.
7. Expand the Centerline Parameters and pick the Arc (Sketch 2).
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2. To create another Plane, Hold Ctrl key and drag Front plane to the left.
to 30 mm and Instances: 2
4. Create one more plane (Plane3) which 40 mm from Plane2 using the same method.
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8. Exit sketch. 9. Select Plane2 and sketch another Circle, which its radius is coincident with the vertex of the square. Exit the sketch.
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11. Click Features Lofted Boss/Base 12. Select sketches. You have to make sure that all the selected points are at the same corner.
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14. Select Plane4 that you have just created and sketch a Rectangle as illustrated below.
15. Click Features Lofted Boss/Base. Select the profile. Pick the point at the right bottom of square and rectangle.
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Rib
Rib
1. Sketch L shape and extrude the sketch. 2. Sketch a Line to use as the rib feature on a plane. 3. Click Rib on the Features toolbar, or click Insert, Features, Rib. 4. Click OK Shell tool hollows out a part, leaves open the faces you select, and creates thinwalled features on the remaining faces. If you do not select any face on the model, you can shell a solid part, creating a closed, hollow model. You can also shell a model using multiple thicknesses.
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Tutorial 4.7: Using Shell to create wall thickness inside the Bottle
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2. Adding the first component Components can be added in several ways. They can be dragged and dropped from an open part window or opened from standard browser.
3. Position of the first component The initial component added to the assembly is automatically fixed as it is added. Others components can be positioned after they are added.
4. Mating components to each other Mates are used to position and orient components with reference to each other. Mates remove degrees of freedom from the components.
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5. Sub assemblies Assemblies can be created and inserted into the current assembly. They are considered sub-assembly components.
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SolidWorks Training (Basic) From assemblies, you can: 1. Perform mass properties calculations on entire assemblies and also interference (clashes) detection between parts in assembly,
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Bill of Materials (BOM) table can be generated from the assembly. Associated balloons can be added to identify the items.
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Assembly toolbars
Insert components Hide/show components Change suppression state Edit component No external references Mate Move component
Basic assembly mates
Smart fasteners Exploded view Explode line sketch Interference detection Simulation
Coincident place two flat surfaces in the same plane Parallel define two flat surfaces as parallel Perpendicular define two lines or planes as perpendicular to one another Tangent define a cylindrical feature as tangent to a line or plane Concentric align the centerlines of two cylindrical features Distance make two surfaces parallel, with a specified distance between them Angle two lines or planes at a preset angle to one another
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Fixed
Right click and select Float. Now, the component is floating, and can be moved or rotated
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4. Mate the faces of these two components (Bracket C Link) and select Coincident Select top Face of C Link
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Coincident
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Rotate the bolt so that its legs are parallel with the holes
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6. Mating components (select U Bolts right leg and Brackets hole) choose Concentric
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Concentric
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8. Select bottom faces of U-Bolt and C Link and constraint their Distance to maintain at 40 mm.
Distance
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9. Continue with the other side. You have to insert other U-Bolt and C Link and apply mates on respective parts as before.
10. You will utilize the Design Library and take a standard nut from the library.
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Double click the nut
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12. You will be asked to Select a Configuration of the nut size. Select M20-2.5. M Metric, 20 nut diameter (in mm)
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15. A complete assembly.
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16. Generate an assembly statistics - Generate a report of the components and mates in an assembly.
9 components
20 mates
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17. Select the component to be exploded a triad will appear place the cursor over the arrow on the triad that represents the direction in which component should be exploded then drag to the desired distance. 18. Select the nuts (it will be highlighted in cyan color at the design tree). Then drag the triad downward.
Exploded step
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20. Expand the entries in the ConfigurationManager so that defined Explode Steps will appear
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Exploding
Collapsing
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22. Select edges or faces on components that the explode line will connect between.
Select edges
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Module 6: Drawing
After completion of this module, you will be able to: make 2-D drawing from a SolidWorks part file. create a custom drawing sheet format, and use eDrawings to create a drawing file that allows easy file sharing
1. To open a new drawing file, open SolidWorks 2007, click New icon on the Standard toolbar.
3. You will be asked about the format and size of your drawing layout. Click Standard sheet size and select A-Landscape. Do not turn on the Display sheet format yet.
4. Click on the X to close the box, we will set a few options before browsing the part file.
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Drawing toolbars
In the drawing mode, the CommandManager has THREE groups of command:
Drawing
Sketch
Annotation
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6. Select Third angle projection. Do not worry about the scale, it can be changed later,
8. Then Browse
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9. Search the Bracket that you have created during Exercise 3.2 or go to Desktop/Module3/Exercise 3.2. Enable the Preview to view the part before you open.
Top view
Front view
Right view
11. All other views are aligned with the Front view. When you move/drag the front view up-down or left-right will move the other views.
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2 Move the cursor over the edge 3 Move the cursor to the downside of the bracket
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16. A Section View is created. To reverse the arrow direction double click on the section line
17. To break alignment between section view and top view, right click the section view; go to Alignment-Break Alignment.
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19. The location of Right view will be replaced by the Section view, but you need to rotate this view first. Right click the view; choose Zoom/Pan/Rotate Rotate View.
21. Select the section view, and click Centerline Tool from Annotations group then centerlines will be added to the holes
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22. Press and hold the Shift key and drag the dimension of 45 mm diameter hole from the top view into the Section View
23. You can also hide the dimension. Just select the dimension you want to hide, right click and find Hide. To show the dimension, go to View Hide/Show Annotations, then click any hidden dimension
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Insert a Note
24. Select Note Tool from the Annotation group
25. Begin typing the text as shown in the box that appears.
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28. Right click in the drawing area and select Edit Sheet Format.
29. The drawing Sheet Format. After this, you will learn how to do some modification to the sheet.
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30. Drag your mouse from left to the right to select all the lines and information that you may not needed. Press Delete key and then use Trim Entities to trim the lines.
31. Trim until you get the drawing table like this.
32. Select Note Tool and type inside the Comments. Symbol plus/minus is inserted by clicking on the Add Symbol Tool under Text Format tab.
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33. Fill up the form as shown; type your department and drawing title.
34. To modify the scale, you have to go to Sheet Properties and change the Scale 1:2.
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36. You will get back to the other side of drawing. It includes your drawing part and sheet.
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37. A trimetric view can often be helpful in interpreting a 2D drawing. To bring the view into the drawing layout, click Model View from Drawings.
39. Select the Trimetric View, and arrange the view as figure below.
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Assembly Drawing
Assembly drawings show all the parts and how they go together Dimensioning is not usually required Hidden lines usually omitted 3D CAD packages can generate assembly drawings directly from assembly models
Balloons
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2. OK to accept the Drawing Template 3. Click Standard sheet size and select A-Landscape. Do not turn on the Display sheet format yet.
4. In the new drawing window, select the Standard 3 View, and make sure it is in Third angle projection
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Trimetric view
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Customizing BOMs
11. Edit the title box
12. The drawing is almost complete, but the item numbers in the Bill of Materials are not linked with the components in the drawing. We will add balloons with part numbers to the drawing.
AutoBalloons
13. Select the exploded Trimetric Views. Select the AutoBalloons Tool from the Annotations group of the CommandManager.
15. Click and drag the part numbers to relocate the balloons.
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16. Balloon styles Circular Triangular Hexagon Circular split line Item number Quantity
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4. e-drawing file.
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Exercises 6.1:
In the PropertyManager, click Browse, and then open Desktop\ SolidWorks Basic Training/Module6/motor casing.sldasm. Do the assembly drawing as shown.
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References
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