25 min.

Recap Exercise
In this exercise you will see how to create a button body using the Wireframe and Surface
Design and Part Design workbenches:

Creating the profiles

Extruding the profile
Creating the solid part
Modifying the geometry

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Exercise
Button (Step 1) : Creating the wireframe geometry

In this step you will:

Create the points
Create the profile curves
Create the direction lines

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Pt5
Line.1
Pt5
Pt4

Pt3
Pt2

Spline.1

Pt1 Pt1

Points, Spline, Line (1-, 2-, 3-) Sketch on XY plane (4-) Line on YZ plane (5-)

Button_step1.CATPart

Create the wireframe geometry:

1- Create 5 points : Pt1(0,0,5), Pt2(0,10,9), Pt3(0,23,7), Pt4(0,30,8), Pt5(-20,30,7)

2- Create a spline passing through Pt1 to Pt4
3- Create a line passing through Pt4 and Pt5
4- Draw a sketch on XY plane with two coincidences and a radius of 20mm
5- Draw a vertical line on YZ plane

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Exercise
Button (Step 2) : Creating the surfaces

In this step you will:

Create extruded surfaces

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Sketch.2

Line.1

Spline.1
Sketch.1

Surface Extrude. 1 (1-) Surface Extrude. 2 ( 2-)

Button_step2-3.CATPart

Create the basic surfaces:

1- Create the first extruded surface : select profile Sketch.1 and direction Sketch.2
2- Create the second extruded surface : select profile Spline.1 and direction Line.1

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Exercise
Button (Step 3): Creating the solid

In this step you will:

Create a pad using the existing surfaces as limits
Add fillets on edges
Shell the part

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Sketch.3 on XY plane (1-) Sketch.4 YZ plane (2-)

Button_step4.CATPart

1- Create a sketch (rectangular contour) on the XY plane

2- Create a sketch (trapezoidal contour) on the YZ plane

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Pad up to surface (3-) Split of pad (4-) Pad up to surface (5-) Fillets (6-) Shell (7-)

3- Create a pad on Sketch.3, up to the Extrude.2 surface

4- Split Pad.1 with Extrude.1 as splitting surface
5- Create a pad on Sketch.4 up to the Extrude.1 surface
6- Make 1.5 mm fillets on the 6 horizontal and vertical edges
7- Shell the bottom faces with 1mm (5 faces)

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Exercise
Button (Step 4): Modifying the geometry

In this step you will:

Modify the geometry by moving the definition points of the spline and
changing parameters in the Sketcher

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Pt3

Point on spline (1-) Sketch.1 (2-)

Button_step5.CATPart

1- Double click on Pt3 and change the Z value to 5mm to modify the shape of the spline
2- Open Sketch.1 to change the radius value to 25mm

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