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SolidWorks: Assembly Assembly Slide 2 spring sweep Assembly Exploding Slide 3 Practice 1: swept Slide 4 Sketch on a circle on top plane (Unit: inches) Slide 5 Insert Curve Helix/spiral exit sketch (p=0.13, H=0.5) Slide 6 Insert reference geometry plane (normal to curve) Slide 7 Sketch a circle on plane1, diameter=0.05 Slide 8 Sweep feature Slide 9 Practice 2: Assembly Online tutorial: Lesson 2 Assembly Slide 10 Explode view Slide 11 Slide 12 Download Chapter5SimpleMachinedPart.SLDPRT AND Chapter5Frame.SLDPRT open this file Then Click OK To insert At Origin Slide 13 (f) Means part is fixed Click on Origin to see anchor point Then Open Part Chapter5SimpleMachinedPart. SLDPRT Slide 14 Slide 15 Slide 16 (-) means part is underdefined you can R-click on an (f) part in tree to Float it, i.e. (-) Slide 17 Click on Mate, 1 st Mate: click inset-face in part, and beam outer face Coincident (OK) Slide 18 2 nd Mate: First click here Slide 19 Now click here Slide 20 You can now R-click UpperRight and slide up and down beam with mouse Slide 21 In R-Plane view, position slot over holes, then isometric view --- NOT a Mate yet Slide 22 Expand Machine Part, Click its Front Plane, Display temp axes, Ctrl- select FRAME hole axes, choose symmetry in Advanced Mate, OK, turn off temp axes Slide 23 3 rd MATE Slide 24 Notice machine part now lost the (-)finished Slide 25 Assembly Demo 2 Slide 26 Demo2 open Cube and Dowel, from Cube view, click assy button, insert at 0,0 Slide 27 Insert Dowel Slide 28 Select green face on each object use mouse wheel to rotate, ctrl-click to select, then click MATE to align planes You can then use Left-mouse Drag to align manually Slide 29 OR, select side of cylinder, edge of cube, and choose TANGENT Still not fixed because dowel could translate along edge: One more tangent will help but it could still rotate Slide 30 Add another part, Dowel w/Handle Try rotating part with R-mouse Drage Mate first by aligning surface planes Then cylinders Done! Turn crank!! Slide 31 Slide 32 Slide 33 Slide 34 Slide 35 Slide 36 Slide 37 Slide 38 Slide 39 Slide 40 Slide 41 Exercise 1 Slide 42 Excercise2 Slide 43 NUT & BOLT Slide 44 Home works Assembly & explode view Fig. 4-5-6