Chapter 4

3D Solid Modeling
4.1 Beam Bracket
4.2 Cover of Pressure Cylinder
4.3 Lifting Fork
4.4 More Details
4.5 LCD Display Support
4.6 Review
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Section 4.1
Beam Bracket

Problem Description Y

The beam bracket is

made of WT8x25 steel.
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Techniques/Concepts

• Local coordinate systems

• Sketching with plane view
versus in 3D view
• Use of Triad
• Add Material
• Rounds/Fillets
• Turn on/off edges display
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Section 4.2
Cover of Pressure Cylinder

Problem Description
[1] Pressure
cylinder.

[3] Back view of

the cover. [2] Cylinder
Cover.
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30.3
62.0
Unit: mm. 25.3
7.4
2.3 1.6 21.0 1.3

7.4
R19.0

R3.2
R4.9 R8.5
R7.5
R14.5 R9.0
R18.1

62.0
R25.4
R27.8

31.0
R3.4 10.0
3.0
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Techniques/Concepts

• Create new planes

• Set up local coordinate systems
• Plane with outlines
• Modify>Duplicate
• Cut Material
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Section 4.3
Lifting Fork

Problem Description
[1] Fork (steel).

[2] Glass panel

(1.0 mm).
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[3] The cross [2] The cross [1] The cross

section here is section here is section here is
100x10 mm. 130x20 mm. 160x40 mm.

Unit: mm.

2200
1600
200
2400

2500 200
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Techniques/Concepts

• Skin/Loft
• Lofting guide line
• Add Frozen
• Copy bodies (Pattern)
• Boolean
• Create 3D surface bodies
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Section 4.4 More Details

• Triad
• Isometric View
• Rotation
• Selection Filters
• Extend Selection
• Selection Panes
• Edge Display
• Tools for 3D features
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Triad
[3] If the cyan sphere
coincides with the origin,
that means the view is an
[1] Click an isometric view.
arrow will
orient the
view normal
to that
arrow.

[2] A black
arrow represents
a negative
direction.

[4] Click the cyan

sphere to return to
the isometric view.
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Rotations

[1] Hold the middle mouse button

down while moving around the graphic
area, you can rotate the model.

[3] Roll, [2] Free

rotation about rotation.
screen Z-axis. [6] The type of rotation depends on
the location of the cursor.

[4] Yaw,
[5] Pitch, rotation about
rotation about screen
screen X-axis. Y-axis.
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Selection Aides

• Selection Filters
• Extend Selection
• Selection Panes
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Bodies and Parts

• A body is entirely made of one kind

of material and is the basic building
blocks of a model.
• A 3D body is either a solid body, a
surface body, or a line body.
• A part may be a collection of bodies.
All bodies in a part are assumed to be
bonded together with one another.
• In Mechanical, parts are meshed
This is the only
independently geometric
• A model may consist of one or more entities that will
parts. be attached to
• In Mechanical, connections
Mechanical for
(contacts, joints) among parts must be simulations.
established to complete a model.
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Features
Features
• Based Features
• Extrude
• Revolve
• Sweep
• Skin/Loft
• Surface
• Lines
• Point
• etc.
• Placed Features
• Thin/Surface
• Blend
• Chamfer
• etc.
• Planes
• Operations
• etc.
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Section 4.5
LCD Display Support

Problem Description
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Unit: mm

17
42

200
80
60
50
10
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Techniques/Concepts

• Revolve
• Skin/loft
• Thin/Surface