CONTENTS

1 Your First Part, Start To Finish 1

3 Getting started
7 using sketcher
9 going to 3D

2 Basic Dress Up Features 11

14 Pocketing
20 Dress up toolbar
21 Fillets

3 Mouse Manipulation 23
24 Zoom
26 Rotate
28 Panning
30 Specification tree manipulations
34 Rendering styles

4 Advanced Dress Up Features 39

41 Chamfer
44 Draft angle
47 Shell

5 Constraints 52
54 Pick a constraint
55 Constrain in a dialog box
59 Concentricity
62 Fix in space

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6 Reference Elements 64
65 How to find them
73 Setting as plane
75 Drawing on created plane

7 Basic Assembly Design 79

80 Entering assembly design mode
84 Product structure tree
85 Bringing parts into your assembly
87 Assembly constraints toolbar
89 Using the compass
91 Constraints in assemblies
86 Offset constraints

8 Drafting and Dimensioning 98

100 Entering drafting mode
102 Drawing creation
104 Beginning dimensions
105 Diameters and radiuses
107 Changing dimension lines
109 Adding text
112 Generating quick dimensions

9 Drawing With Surfaces 115

117 Starting the surfaces environment
118 Translating
119 Renaming
120 Points and splines
123 Extruding a surface
125 Sweeping a curve
129 Trimming
131 Symmetry
132 Joining surfaces
134 Closing an object

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10 Drafting Techniques I 136
139 Adding a title block
142 Adding an isometric view
145 Changing hidden lines
147 Section view
148 Adding a detail
151 Adding a clipping
153 Changing hatch patterns

11 Drafting Techniques II 155

156 Auxiliary views
159 Changing line properties
161 Changing fonts
164 Finishing your title block

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