ME-430 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN

Windmill Parallel Blend Option

Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0
Dr. Herli Surjanhata

Figure 1

Step 1: Create revolve protrusion for the hub as shown in Figure 2 below. Note that the location of center of the arc is in PRT_CSYS-DEF. Make sure you create a vertical centerline as axis of revolution, and the diameter of the hub at the bottom is 14 inches.

Figure 2 Revolve section of the hub

Step 2:

Click the Create datum plane icon to create a new datum plane DTM1 through axis A_2, and 30 angle with FRONT datum plane. Pick the A-2 axis, and while holding down Ctrl key, pick FRONT datum plane. Enter Value for rotation - 30

Figure 3 Step 3: From Insert pull down menu, select Blend -> Protrusion

For the Blend option, select Parallel -> Regular Sec -> Sketch Sec -> Done. Smooth blend is used to for blending the three sections of the blade. Smoth -> Done

Use DTM1 as sketching plane, and TOP datum plane as top reference. Pick the A_2 axis and TOP datum plane as the references. Create THREE sections as shown in the Figures 4, 5 and 6.

to create points needed to locate the Be sure to use centerlines and location of the center of the circular part of the section.

icon to continue, and from Sketch the first section as shown in Figure 4. Click Sketch pull-down menu, select Feature Tools -> Toggle section.

icon to Continue with sketching the second section as shown in Figure 5, click continue, and from Sketch pull-down menu, select Feature Tools -> Toggle section. And finally sketch the third section as shown in Figure 6. When you are done,

click

icon to continue, Blind -> Done. Enter 17.5 inches for the depth between sections. Select OK button

Figure 4 Section 1. Note that the arcs dimension is in diameter.

Figure 5 Second Section shown in red

Figure 6 The last section shown in red. Note that Section 1 is the largest, and sketched in DTM1. Section 2 is the second largest and third section is smallest representing the tip of the blade.

Step 4: Create a group named blade for patterning. From Edit pull down menu, select Feature Operations

Group -> Create -> Local Group Enter group name: blade

Click the

icon.

Continue with picking DTM1 and the first blade created in Step 3. The easy way to do is to select the features from the Model Tree. Done/Return -> Done

Step 5:

Pattern the local group blade by selecting: -> Pick the Click Group BLADE from the Model Tree. Select Dimensions tab to expand it. Click 30 angle between FRONT & DTM1 for Direction 1. Enter dimension increment = 120 [Enter] Enter TOTAL number of instances in the direction (including original) = 3 Click on the .

The blade pattern is created.

Save the part. Step 6: Create a revolved cut in the hub as shown below.

Figure 7 The section for revolved cut. The resulted cut is shown below:

Step 7: Create a hole at the center of the post with the diameter of 2 inches and 8 inches depth.

Step 8: Create ribs to strengthen the post.

Click

Select References -> Define.

Pick DTM1 as sketching plane, select Top as Reference, and Top Orientation will be automatically selected. Click Sketch.

to change the view to Click hidden line. Zoom in to the hub area.

Select references as shown below and click Close.

Pick these as references.

Draw a horizontal line as shown.

Click

Draw this line.

Enter 1 as the thickness of the rib.

Click

The resulted rib is shown below:

Pattern the rib. Select Rib1 in the Model Tree.

Pick Click

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Add keyway, rounds and chamfer as shown below use your own dimensions:

Section for keyway, and depth of the cut is 2 inches.

Save the model.