shuvom ghose, senior application engineer 4/14/2011
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The Impossible Workaround Challenge!Shuvom Ghose, Senior Application Engineer 4/14/2011
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The Teams
I hope you like who you’re sitting next to…
Team 1: Team 2:
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Some of these techniques are NOT good modeling practices, and NOT recommended for everyday use…
…but sometimes, you need to get things DONE.
WARNING!
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Fill ‘Er Up!
You have a part file with a weird shape and an enclosed volume.
You want a body to represent the EMPTY SPACE inside your part.
How do you do it? Hint #1: Multi-bodies
Hint #2: Combine Feature
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Fill ‘Er Up 2!
Now you have an ASSEMBLY with a weird shape and an enclosed volume.
You want a part to represent the EMPTY SPACE inside.
How do you do it?Hint #1: Insert…Mold…
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“Mass” Properties
You’ve got 100 different part files which suddenly need a NEW, CUSTOM, file property.
How do you do it?
Hint #1: Assembly
Hint #2: Custom Property Tab
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A Springy Spring
Your boss really, REALLY wants to see this spring flex in your assembly.
How do you do it?
Hint #1: Mates can flex
Hint #2: Lots of little parts
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Just the Assembly
You need to make a measurement inside an assembly.
But, your co-worker e-mailed you JUST the assembly (.sldasm), none of the parts!
How do you do it?
Hint #1: Don’t use SW
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Just a little bigger…
You’ve got 3 minutes to make a complex sub-assembly 25% bigger. It only has to look right.
How do you do it?Hint #1: Not an assembly anymore…
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Fish Mouth Wrap
You’ve got a fish-mouth joint.
Your shop floor wants to print out a 2D “template” to wrap around the tube to mark it before they cut.
How do you do it?Hint #1: Sheet metal
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Stair-step Section View
You need to make a section view, but it’s not just a straight line.
“Aligned Section View”can only use lines, not arcs.
How do you do it?
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A Monster Annotation
You need to have a single drawing annotation that intelligently links to:
-a balloon, -a datum flag,-a dimension, and-a GTOL
How do you do it?
Hint #1: You can’t spell annotation without “note”
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Helix along a path
Your part starts as a helix, but then bends to follow a path.
But a helix only goes straight.
How do you do it?
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High Compression
You need to e-mail an X MB part file to someone.
Your e-mail size limit is X/2 MB.
Your e-mail also blocks .zip files.
How do you do it?
Hint #1: What’s taking up space, the feature inputs, or the feature outputs?
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To Re-CAP:
1. To fill a part volume… 2. To fill an assembly volume… 3. To assign properties to 100 parts at once… 4. To make a springy spring… 5. To measure just an assembly file… 6. To make an assembly just a little bigger… 7. To make a printout of a fish mouth… 8. To make a stair step section view… 9. To make a monster annotation… 10. To make a helix follow a path… 11. To compress your file quickly…
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Credits
Files for “Fill er up” 1 and 2, and “Just a Little Bigger” came from grabcad.com, a fun, free download site for SW models everyone should use.
Thanks to Mike LaFleche and Doug Russell for their help during the presentation!
Any questions, contact me at [email protected], or through www.capinc.com.