Archive for the ‘Dimensioning’ Category

Solidworks has a wrap feature. This feature wraps a sketch onto a planar or nonplanar face. You can create a planar face from cylindrical, conical, or extruded models. You can also select a planar profile to add multiple, closed spline sketches.

The wrap feature supports contour selection and sketch reuse. You can project a wrap feature onto multiple faces. The sketch plane must be tangent to the face, allowing the face normal and the sketch normal to be parallel at the closest point.

While the the Split Line tool projects an entity (sketch, solid, surface, face, plane, or surface spline) to surfaces, or curved or planar faces. It divides a selected face into multiple separate faces. You can split curves on multiple bodies with one command.

Have you ever encountered a surface in solidworks that is deformed or not smooth enough? This usually happen when converting it into a different file format. Well I have a sample that needed some work because some faces are not the way they should be.

(See fig .1)

1. First we should identify what causes the surface to deform, like the tangency of the curves.

Fig. 1

2. After knowing the problem which is the tangency of the curve use before, we should now create a new curve.

As you can see in (fig. 2.1) the difference between the new curves form the old. You could use any of the “curves command” like composite curve or curve through points. After creating the curve you can now delete the surface to be replaced by using the command “Delete Face”.

3. Now that the curves are all done we can now create a new face. We can now do the other faces

4. You could do it in the half part so we could just mirror it and knit it.

• All done!

One of the feature of Solid works is the Photo View 360 the visualization and rendering solution, it is easy and lot of fun to work in rendering design parts to make it more realistic with greater accuracy and appeal than ever before that can used for client presentation. It’s a highly interactive environment for viewing designs as well as for creating photorealistic renderings that can use for showcasing designs. It’s as easy as applying the appearances and scenes just drag and drop it onto that part. To change the color, pick on the parts and go to the advanced tab of the material and pick the color in the color options quickly to get some great looking and very appealing images of the design.

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Cogorno, Gene R. Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing for Mechanical Design. New York: McGraw-Hll, c2006. Print.

Gay, Daniel, and Jacques Gambelin, eds. Modeling and Dimensioning of Structures. Hoboken, NJ: ISTE: Wiley, 2008. Print.

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Gross, Hans, Jens Hamann, and Georg Wiegartner. Electrical Feed Drives in Automation: Basics, Computation, Dimensioning. Ed. Siemens Aktiengesellschaft. Erlangen: Publicis MCD Corporate, c2001. Print.

Henzold, Georg. Geometrical Dimensioning and Tolerancing for Design, Manufacturing, and Inspection: A Handbook for Geometrical Product Specification Using ISO and ASME Standards. 2nd ed. Boston, MA: Elsevier, 2006. Print.

Industrial Fasteners Institute. IFI Guide to Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) for Mechanical Fasteners. Cleveland, Ohio: Industrial Fasteners Institute, c2004. Print.

Madsen, David A. Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing. Tinley Park, Illinois: Goodheart-Willcox, c2011. Print.

Meadows, James D. Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing in 2007. Hendersonville, TN: James D. Meadows, c2006. Print.

Nagy, Imre V., Kofi Asante-Dulah, and Istvan Zsuffa. Hydrological Dimensioning and Operation of Reservoirs: Practical Design Concepts and Principles. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2002. Print.

Puncochar, Daniel E. Interpretation of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing. 3rd ed. New York: Industrial Press, c2011. Print.

Srinivasan, Vijay. Theory of Dimensioning: An Introduction to Parameterizing Geometric Models. New York: Marcel Dekker, c2004. Print.

Stasiak, Maciej, Mariusz Gabowski, and Arkadiusz Wisniewski. Modelling and Dimensioning of Mobile Networks: From GSM to LTE. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2011. Print.

Wilson, Bruce A. Design Dimensioning and Tolerancing. Tinley Park, Illinois: Goodheart-Wilcox, c2005. Print.

Zurflieh, Thomas P. AutoCAD 2004: 2D Drawing and Dimensioning. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2005. Print.

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