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Updated: 12-6-11WEK
ENGINEERING DESIGN W/ Solid Works
Oxford Area High School
GETTING STARTED TUTORIALS
Introduction to Solid Works
This Introduction to Solid Works will guide you through the creation of several part drawings. You will create these parts based on drawings you completed in Mechanical Drawing One:
Your 5th CADD Drawing
“Round Flange”
For your 5th part, you will recreate the “Round Flange” shown below. You will take this single view drawing and draw a line drawing of it. Then you will give it a thickness of .125” making the part a 3D model made up of those basic features.
You will begin this lesson by creating a new part.
1. Click New on the Standard toolbar.
2. Click Part.
3. Click OK.
Next: Set up measurement units to be in “inches”.
1. Click on / open the “Options” icon.
2. Now click on / open the “Document Properties” tab.
3. Now click “Units”.
4. Under “Unit system” click on “IPS”
5. Hit
NEXT:
1. Click on the “Features toolbar” tab.
Then click on Extruded Boss/Base icon.
The Front, Top, and Right planes appear in the graphics area.
1. Move the pointer over the Top plane to highlight it, then click to select it.
The display changes, so that the Top plane is facing you. A sketch opens on the: Top plane.
3. Click the “Circle” tool on the Sketch tab toolbar.
4. Next you will draw a circle on the origin symbol.
5. The pointer changes to to indicate you are drawing circles.
6. Bring the point of the pencil to the origin symbol, you will see an orange dot appear. Draw a circle here.
7. Click Smart Dimension on the Sketch toolbar. Set this circle to 6” Dia.
Placing Center Lines
1. Next you will place two “CENTER LINES” 1- vertical, 1- Horizontal.
2. Click on the down arrow next to the line command this will bring up the center line , select this to place your center lines in the 6” circle.
3. You will use these center lines to place the additional needed circles.
Your goal is to place the “Circles” even with the horizontal and vertical
centers. The size of your circle entities does not need to be exact.
They will be adjusted later.
Placing The Remaining Circles
1. First place a 1 ¼” circle on the center axis.
2. Next you will place the 4 - 3/4” Dia. Circles on the axis.
3. You should see the center line changes color when you bring the Pencil point (Cursor) up to it. When it does you can place the four circles.
4. After resizing the four circles, set them 2” from the center axis.
Saving the “Round Flange”
Before you go any further let’s “Save” what you have completed.
1. Click Save on the Standard toolbar.
2. In the dialog box, type Round Flange, add Your initials and today’s date, for the File name. Example: Round Flange, WEK 12-25-13
3. Click Save. The extension .sldprt is added to the file name, and the file is saved.
Extruding the Round Flange
Click on the “Features” tab, then click on .
Next:
5. In the “Direction 1” window it should read “Blind”.
6. In the dimension box, change the measurement to
.125” inch.
3. Now click on the . You will now see the Round Flange
in the 3D format.
4. Click Save .
Adding Text Information
1. Click on the “Insert” drop down tab at the top of the screen.
2. Select “Annotations”, and then “Note…”
3. You should now see a text “Formatting” box.
4. Click on the font type selection arrow and choose “Arial”
5. Set the font size to 12 or 14.
6. Click in the small text box area and place the below information:
Drawn By: (Your Name)
Title: Round Flange
Date:(Today’s date)
Period:(Your class period)
Score: ____/50
7. Click Save.
8. When the text box is complete clickin the Program Manager to exit.
Printing your Round Flange
7. Go to “File” then “Print Setup”, be sure to click on “Scale to Fit” and “Landscape”, click “OK”.
8. Go to “File” then “Print”.
Try to center the image and print in
Landscape Layout.
Always look at the “Preview” image before printing!!!
If your Preview is good you can print.
Print to the CADDLAB.
Hand in, for a
possible 50 Points.
Congratulations!
You have completed your lesson.
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