solidworks this is a powerful and user-friendly software to design 3d model of mechanical parts and...
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SolidWorks
• This is a Powerful and User-friendly software to design 3D model of Mechanical parts and Assemblys,Drawings
to manufacture and also FEM analysis, and so on.
Design a Part
• Every part is composed of a sketch and a feature
• 1- Go to Sketch Mode and Draw a 2D sketch(sketch is a drawing that it has no thickness like line, circle, rectangle, arc,… )
• 2- Go to Feature Mode, select one of the appropriate commands to create 3D model(such as Cube, Cylinder, spring,…)
Creating a Sketch
First choose a main plane from Feature manager Tree
Select Sketch on the main toolbar
2-Click on
Then choose the appropriate geometrical command from Sketch Toolbar
Sketch Toolbar
Feature Manager Tree
Front Plane
Feature Manager Tree
• This box displays all the features of your part or assembly. It also lists planes, axis, and Mating groups.
• To select the main Planes(Front, Top, and Right)
• To modify and see the procedure of designing a part, it has a dynamic relation with area of drawing
Sketch and Feature Toolbars
• To create any Sketch (drawing ) use the sketch toolbar.
• Feature Toolbar: this toolbar contains all the functions for creating and manipulating 3D shapes
Creating a Part
• Choose one of the Main planes to draw the Sketch
(Hint:Before creating a sketch you should choose a Plane or a side of part)
2D Sketch• After selecting one
of the main plane, click on a shape on Sketch Toolbar(Rectangle)
• Now, by clicking on the design area and move the pointer you can draw the sketch
Adding Dimensions• Use Dimension
Tool(click on Smart Dimesion)
• Select the entities to add the dimensions
• Double click on dimensions to modify the dimensions
DimensionsIt is not required to add
dimension on sketch before use them to create a feature
• Fully Defiend Sketch: the position of all entities are fully described, and all the entities are BLACK
• Under Defined Sketch: additional dimensions or relations are needed to completely specify the geometry, under defiened entities are BLUE
• Over Defiened Sketch, an object has conflicting dimensions or relations, or both. Over defined entities are RED.
Over defined Sketch
Feature mode• Now by clicking on Features on the main
Toolbar, switch to Feature mode
• Now the feature toolbar will be activated
Extrude
• Extrude the sketch
• 1-click Extruded base
• 2-Set End Condition to Blind
• 3-Set Depth to 10 mm
• Click OK.
Sweep(first create the path)to move a profile along a Path
• In sketch mode
• Select Front Plane in Feature manager
• Draw the path for ex. By clicking spline draw like the picture
Sweep(create the x-section)
• Now draw another sketch as the X-section:
• Choose the Top plane
• Draw the profile in sketch mode (cirlce)
Reference Geometry• Click Insert• Choose
Reference Geometry
• 1-Plane• Parallel
plane• Normal to
curve• plane• 2-Axis• 3-…
Now a complex exampleCreating a Spring by Sweep
• Drawing the circle of spring
• Curve>Helix• Defining the plane
Normal to Curve• Drawing the circle• Sweep
Define a perpendicular plane to one end of the helix curve
• Choose one of the end point of Helix
• Insert> Ref. Geometry>plane
• Normal to curve(select the curve and an end point)
Drawing the x-section
• In the defined plane, click on sketch
• Select Circle
and draw it (put the center of circle on the end point of curve)
Sweep
• In the sweep menu click on the profile box
• Select the circle as the profile
• Select the helix curve as the path
Edit Sketches and Features
• From the Feature Manager Tree
• Right click on each feature
select Edit Feature or Edit Sketch
Viewing the Part:You can access the standard engineering views by clicking the Standard Views button on the main toolbar:
Each small box on the "Standard View" menu corresponds to a view of the object. The best way to understand what each view means is to click each view and see what happens.
Assembly
• Open a new assembly file(click on New>Assembly)
• Insert the created • By clicking Mate , make
the necessary relation between the parts
• Save the assembly (with extension .asm or sldasm)
Mate (Coincident)• Click on
Mate• Select the
First face• Use zoom
and move or rotate to select the faces
Mate(Coincident)
• Select the Second face
• Solidworks automatically makes the selected faces coincident
Mate (Concentric)
• Click on mate• Select the
hole and shaft of the Two components
• Click on Concentric
Save(output)• To imports the file in
different softwares Solidworks provide you to save the files in appropriate
format such as Ansys(.igs), Catia, …and
• Rapid protoype machine(.stl)
Save the Assembly in stl format
• During Save as, click on Options,
• Choose (save all components of an assembly in a single file)
Extracting Dimensions From the Part:
• Right click where it says annotations on the feature manager design tree, and click where it says 'Show Feature Dimensions':