Beginner Guide to

Creo Elements/Pro formally Pro/Engineer

Understand Sweep Feature

by
Waqas Ahmad
www.mechanical360.net

This tutorial is made using Creo Elements/Pro V 5.0. The display layout may be different for other versions

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Lets start our exercise

Open Creo Elements Pro select Front plane and enter into sketching window by
clicking on Sketch tool

1) Create a circle with diameter of length 150 units ( I will consider you are
using defaults units)

Figure 1

2) Make this circle extrude up to the depth of 50

Figure 2

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 3) Now select the Top datum plane and again go into the sketching window.
Now in sketching windows move to the menu bar and click at the sketch
option and then at the Reference fig3. Two or more dialog box will open
just ignore them for a while and click at Line Tool draw a line passing
through the center of disc and just parallel to the axis
of disc.fig 4. Click the done button to come back into
the model view window

Figure 3
Figure 4

4) Now click at the variable section sweep tool. The line that you have drawn
in last step will turned into red confirming it that this line is selected for
next step. if this not happened than just click at the line to select it
manually.

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 5) In option menu of the tool click at the options while keeping the order
correct.
i) Solid part tool (extreme left in the fig)
ii) Remove material button ( 4th place from left)
iii) Then click at the sketch feature button (3rd place from left or with
pencil icon)

6) When you will click at the sketch feature tool in above step then you will
see the sketching window. Now draw the two concentric circle (circle with
same center) as shown in fig .
The diameter of bigger circle is 160 and for smaller it is 112

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 7) Draw two center lines using line tool. These line should be perpendicular to
each other and one line should be tangent to the smaller circle. See the fig
below

8) Now draw a circle with center at the tangent center line and at the side of
their meeting point as shown in fig. The diameter of this circle is about 55

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 9) Click at the circle that you have drawn and then click at Mirror tool
and select a center line that you already have drawn see the fig below (a
blue color center line is the reference for the mirror)

10) Now reset the diameter of these two circles to 58 for adjustments

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 11) Now trim all the curves except the sketch shown in yellow line in
the fig below. The red lines indicate the curves that’s has to be deleted.

Note: your section should be close for next step otherwise program will give you open sketch error. So do
double check on this

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 12) After deleting all the curves just click at the done button to close the
sketching window and your sketch should look like this in the model view
window and finally click at the done button to complete the feature.

13) After making this use axis pattern feature to make the complete

gear. In pattern feature use this option and make

total 12 cuts so your part will look like this.

For contact email me at waqas@mechanical360.net

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