Solidwork 2015 - Tutorial - Kel Sakaki
Thursday, October 27, 2016
9:43 PM
DMCBH CAD Tutorial - October 27, 2016
1. Click on the SOLIDWORKS 2015 Icon and open the SOLIDWORKS UI
2. File  New
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Click OK
Create a new folder in your directory
Save the file as Interface Plate 1 to your directory
In the Command Manager ribbon at the top of the page click on 'Sketch'
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8. The Sketch command menu will appear in the ribbon, click on centre rectangle
9. Now we have to select a plane to draw on. In mechanical engineering the three sketch planes are known as the Top, Front and Right plane views by convention. Select the top plane
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The plane is orientated at an angle that makes drawing a bit tricky, let's reorient the drawing so that we are looking normal to the top plane
Click on the 'View Orientation' and select the top view, you'll notice that the UI changes the view
With the mouse cursor, and the centre rectangle still selected click on the red axes and draw a rectangle of arbitrary size
Click on 'Smart Dim' in the 'Sketch' command ribbon, You notice that your cursor changes into something that looks like a calipre
Click on the horizontal bar and enter the dimensions 1.57 in x 2 in (1.57*25.4=39.878)
Should look like this:
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Hit the accept button in the top right corner to commit the dimensions
Want to give this drawing some depth now, so click on the features tab -> Click on the sketch in the UI if it's not highligthed -> Click 'Extrude Boss/Base'
Enter 0.35in and hit the green check mark to accept
Now let's make an alignment cut, using your middle mouse button, reorient the part so it looks like this
22. Click on the face so it's highlighted in blue
23. Click 'Sketch' tab --> Sketch and reorient the part so it faces you again
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26. Click on 'Corner Rectangle' this time
27. Click on the top edge of the part, and drag to the bottom right corner of the part until a small orange dot indicates your are on the corner of the part
Use the 'Smart Dimension' tool again and set the distance from the left edge of the drawing to be 0.1" away from the left edge of the part
Now click accept up in the right part of the UI to commit the drawing
With your dwg selected, click --> Features Tab -> Extruded Cut and enter 0.05 into the dimension and click the green check mark
Now let's look at what we've done
Let's recap
Now let's make two screw clearance holes. This means we want to make holes so that screws will pass directly through the hole and not fasten to our part
With your mouse re-orient the part so it looks like this
Click on the hole wizard int he 'Features' ribbon
A new menu will open up
Enter the following so it looks like this
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Let's reorient the part so it's facing you, click on the 'View Orientation' button, and this time select bottom
Let's make the part transparent so that we can see that we're looking at it all in the same orientation
Click on the 'Display Style' button and then click on 'Hidden Lines Visible' - it should look like this now
Note: The cut should be on the back side, we're just seeing the edge through the part as if it were made of glass
Now Click on the 'Positions' Tab and then click on the face that's facing and click twice on the face to drop two holes anywhere on the surface. NOw let's orient them so they are 1st aligned
Click on the centre of the 1st hole, click on the centre of the 2nd hole, and in 'Add Relations' on the left panel select 'Vertical'. Now the holes are vertically aligned
Now select 'Smart Dimension'
Click on the ctr of h1 and ctr of h2 and then click on the screen and enter 1 in in the dimension window. Click the green checkmark1
Now using the Smart Dim again click on the ctr of h1 and click on the ctr of the red axis and enter 0.5 in
Now using the Smart Dim again click on the ctr of h1 and the 2nd edge of the part from the left enter 1.47in/2
Press the green checkmark in the left side of in the 'Dimension' panel when completed
Press the green checkmark in 'Hole Position' to exit the hole wizard
Now let's change the view back to Shaded with Edges in the Display Style
Wow...that thickness in the ctr bore is pretty thin and will break. Let's change the overall thickess of the part to 0.49"
Right click on 'Boss-Extrude' --> Change Feature --> 0.49"
Our part is complete. Let's make sure we save our work - CTRL-S
Now let's download a part from Thorlabs
Go to : https://www.thorlabs.com -> Optomechanical Components -> Mounting / Angle Brackets -> Tombstone Mounting Block --> TS240
Right click on 'Step' file -> Save Target as -> TS240-Step to your folder
Now is Solidworks --> File --> Open --> go to your folder and open the TS240-STep.step
Double click on the file
Now if Solidworks doesn't import the file correctly, click on Attempt to Heal all in the Import Diagnostics
Press the green check when done
Hit CTRL-S to save the Solidworks Part in your folder and change the name to just TS240
Now we are ready to make the assembly
File --> New --> Assembly --> OK
Click on the green arrow in the left panel, we'll do this from scratch
Click on the assembly tab --> Insert Components --> Select TS240 and move your cursor to the Ctr of the window
Insert Components -> Interface Plate 1
Now what we want to do is mate two surfaces
Click on the inside edge of the cut, it will turn blue then click on Mate in the Assembly command ribbonClick on front face of the TS240
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Click on the inside edge of the cut, it will turn blue then click on Mate in the Assembly command ribbonClick on front face of the TS240
Press the green arrow, now two edges are aligned
Click on the face with the cut in your part, and then click on the other face of the TS240,
click on the green arrow, it should look like this
NOw you can freely slide the part up and down the face using your mouse
If you look into the holes you can see that they align perfectly
Last, let's set the distance that the part should be from the top of the TS240
Orientate your part like this
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Click on the top of the TS240 and the top face of your part -> Then click on the 'Distance Button' in the panel on the left and enter
Click the green check mark! You're done! YOu've created an assembly ... if you haven't already, save the assembly as tombstone_mount
Does anyone know why the cut was made
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