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Swept Cut is a toolbar that functions to cut solid objects by adding a sketch aid as a rail or reference.

A Swept Cut needs a:

-Profile

-Path

-Guide curve

Dimension Text Edit is one of the commands in the autoCAD program that functions to change, copy, delete, modify text or dimensions both in the form of displacement, rotation and angle.

By using the Dimension text facility, edit or modify this dimension text. We can change the text in the dimensions that we make according to our wishes. Although text is created with the TEXT, MTEXT, LEADER, or QLEADER menu, it can be modified like an object from any other object.

We can also change the text properties from the Properties palette. we can also edit the contents of the text that has been created. Double click the text we want to edit. The Edit Text dialog box will appear for single line text, and a Multiline Text Editor will display for multiline text.

In editing text, we can also select the text type, right click and click Properties on the shortcut menu, then edit the text in the Properties palette.

Order of steps in editing text:

From the Modify menu on the autocad toolbar, select Object.

select Text. then select Edit.

select the text that we want to edit.

In the Text dialog box, type new text. then select OK.

Select any other text that you would like to edit, or press ENTER to end the process.

The difference between TEXT and MTEXT

Although they have the same function, which is both for creating text, TEXT and MTEXT have somewhat striking differences. Namely on TEXT it will produce writing with only one line, meaning that even though when writing with TEXT you make many lines at once, the result will still be one object per line. While on MTEXT it will produce writing with as many lines as you want, so the writing that you have made in lines will result in one object only.

The palette edge is the docking anchor. Once snapped together, you can drag all of them at once, provided you grab the palette at top left. The ability to anchor dockable windows is one of the best new features in AutoCAD. In case you haven’t noticed, there has been a proliferation of dockable windows in recent AutoCAD releases. These include the following: a Advanced Settings Dialog Command Line, Dashboard, dbConnect Manager, Design Center, External References, Info Palette, Lights In Model, Materials, Markup Set Manager, Properties, Quick Calculator, Sheet Set Manager, Sun Properties, Tool Palettes, Visual Style Manager. With all these dockable windows competing for space on screen, there is now officially no room left for drawing. Autodesk probably figured that it couldn’t just tell everyone to go out and buy three more monitors, so it invented the anchor feature. Right-click the vertical title bar of any palette (or, more correctly, dockable window), and toggle on Allow Docking, if it’s not already on. Repeat, and choose Anchor Left or Anchor Right. The best thing about anchoring is that you can anchor multiple dockable windows on each side of the screen without sacrificing any more pixels. Hover the mouse over any labeled anchored dock, and the associated palettes expand, filling all the available space. Anchoring is the most efficient way to work with dockable windows. Try anchoring as many palettes on the edges of the screen as your display resolution allows. You’ll have instant access to most of the UI without having to hunt for palettes in the menu or, worse yet, try to remember shortcut keys.

When we open a new Part document you get additional toolbars and pull-down menus. Toolbars and commands are context sensitive. The commands that are available and related to what the user is doing are in color and the commands that are not available are shown gray. A new toolbar is the View Heads Up toolbar, at the top-center of the Graphics Area . It can be customized, as we shall see later. The question mark at the lower-right corner can be clicked to get help. SolidWorks Desktop for a New Part Document 1.SolidWorks logo 2.Main Drop-down Menu 3.Quick Access Toolbar 4.File name 5.SolidWorks search 6.Help  & Minimize/Maximize/Close window 7.CommandManager 8.CommandManager toolbars tabs 9. Feature/Property/Configuration managers tabs 10.File name  11.FeatureManager Design Tree  12.Origin  13.View Heads-Up toolbar  14.Minimize/Maximize/ Close window  15.Task pane  16.SolidWorks command description 17. Reference triad 18.SolidWorks status bar & units selection 19.Quick tips  20.Graphic.

While it is useful to read through the definitions and functions of all the sketch entities, tools, and relations, using your mouse to create is what this is all about. This tutorial makes sure that you get to know all the major functions in SolidWorks sketches. Almost every part that you build will start with a sketch, so this is a skill worth mastering. Follow these steps to learn about sketch relations: Open a new part using a template that you set up in the Template tutorial from Chapter 1. If you do not have this template, there is one provided for you on the CD-ROM named BibleInchTemplate.prtdot. Copy it to your templates folder and use it to create a new part. You may also use a SolidWorks default template. Select the Front plane in the FeatureManager, and click the Sketch button on the Sketch toolbar. Click the Line tool from the Sketch toolbar. Move the cursor near the Origin; the yellow Coincident symbol appears. Draw a line horizontal from the Origin. Remember that there are two ways to sketch the line: Click+click or click and drag. Make sure that the line snaps to the horizontal and that there is a yellow Horizontal relation symbol. The PropertyManager for the line should show that the line has a Horizontal relation. Also notice that the line is black, but the free endpoint is blue (after you hit Esc twice to clear the tool, then clear the selection). This means that the line is fully defined except for its length. You can test this by dragging the blue endpoint. Click the Smart Dimension tool on the Sketch toolbar, use it to click the line that you just drew, and place the dimension. If you are prompted for a dimension, type 1.000. If not, then double-click the dimension; the Modify dialog box appears, enabling you to change the dimension. The setting to prompt for a dimension is found at Tools ➪ Options ➪ General, Input Dimension Value. Draw two more lines to create a right triangle to look like Figure 3.40. If the sketch relations symbols do not show in the display, turn them on by clicking View ➪ Sketch Relations. You may want to set up a hotkey for this, because having sketch relations is useful, but often gets in the way. Note that the sketch relation symbols may also be green, depending on how your software is installed. Drag the blue endpoint of the triangle. Dragging endpoints is the most direct way to change the geometry. Dragging the line directly may also work, but this sometimes produces odd results. The sketch leaves a ghost when dragging so that you can see where you started. Note that the setting for leaving a ghost when dragging a sketch is found at Tools, Options, Sketch, Ghost Image On Drag. Click the Smart Dimension tool, and then click the horizontal line and the angled line. This produces an angle dimension. Place the angle dimension and give it a value of 30°. Click the Sketch Fillet tool, set the radius value to 0.10 inches, and click each of the three endpoints. Where the 1.000-inch dimension connects to the sketch, SolidWorks has created virtual sharps. Figure 3.41 shows the sketch at this point. You may now want to turn off the Sketch Relations display because the screen is getting pretty busy. You can find this setting at View >Sketch Relations.

Click Modify. In the Dimension Style Manager, Symbols and Arrows tab, under Arrowheads, select User Arrow from the First arrowhead list. In the Select Custom Arrow Block dialog box, enter the name of the block that you want to use as an arrowhead. Click OK. There aren’t many things you can do to make your dimensions look different from those of every other AutoCAD user, but you can create a custom arrowhead. I personally like the traditional open arrowhead that I used when drawing by hand. In AutoCAD, I reproduce that venerable shape with a line segment and two large radius arcs. If you’re as nostalgic as I am for the arrowheads of yore, do this: 1. On layer 0, draw an arrowhead one unit long and pointing to the right. 2. Define a block with the arrowhead you just drew, using the arrow point as the inser- tion point. 3. Select User Arrow from the bottom of the First list in the Arrowheads section of the Symbols And Arrows tab of the Modify Dimension Style dialog box. 4. Select your arrowhead block by name. If you want to use your custom arrowhead for leaders, you have to specify that by selecting it from the list of possible arrowheads in the Leader pane of the Symbols and Arrows tab.

Solid Object Modeling with the Revolve method Problem: Make solid cylinders with R = 50mm and length of 200mm. Target, Make a new part, Get to know the Revolve method, Get to know the Revolve dialog box 1. Click the New icon and part icon to create a new part 2. Click the icon, and the 2D sketch icon so we can sketch tools activate. 3. Click the centerline icon and then from the origin create the centerline line horizontally to the right 200mm. 4. Then click the full line icon and then from the origin make the line vertical upwards of 50 mm then horizontal to 200 mm and vertical down 50 mm so we get a picture like the following: 5. Click the Revolve icon, or on the menu line click insert, base, revolve, so the revolve dialog box will appear as follows. 6. From the revolve dialog box above, in the Revolve section we select the parameter One-Direction and type 360 ​​deg. 7. After the above process is complete, click the checklist so that we will

To build a sketch driven pattern: Open a sketch on the face of a part. Click Point or Tools > Sketch Entity > Point , and add multiple sketch points to represent the pattern you want to create, based on the seed feature. Click Sketch Driven Pattern (Features toolbar) or Insert > Pattern/Mirror > Sketch Driven Pattern. Patterns make items by repeating selected objects in an array based on the features we want. Many supporting features exist in the Solidworks program. We can make a variety of patterns ranging from linear patterns, circular patterns, curve patterns, fill patterns or using point sketches or coordinate tables to create patterns. To reproduce features in Solidworks select the Visual Properties option in the Property Manager. For Circular Pattern, select the feature and axis as the center of rotation, then specify: The number of items and the angular distance or number of items and the total angle to create the pattern. For Curve Driven Pattern, select a feature and segment or sketch where for the feature's pattern. Then we can determine the type of curve, the curve method, and the alignment method. For patterns, choose where to change the seed feature by sketching points on the face model. For Table Pattern, add or take the previous item with XY coordinates to fill in the feature. For Fill Patern, fill in the area specified with the pattern feature. We can also make copies of patterns and copies of patterns of control and adjustment systems.

To export autocad dwg files to unigraphics is very easy We can do autocad drawings with the help to facilitate and speed up our design. Use the DXF/DWG translator, if you want 2D drawing and 3D geometry in the DXF/DWG file (Export as 3D option). Use the 2D Exchange translator to generate DXF/DWG output in the following cases (Export as 2D option): - If you want to export a single drawing to the model space of AutoCAD. - If you want to export only 2D drawings and no 3D geometry. - If you want to export single model view of assembly or part. This import command allows us to choose the type of geometric constraints that apply automatically to our sketches. NX geometry analysis in the active sketch will implement the selected boundary.

In the Solidworks program we can combine the bodies contained in one multibody section. We will not be able to combine two separate parts, not touching.
We can create a multibody section by using Insert Section to place one section in another section file.
Then we can only use Combine on multibody parts.
To use the Subtract combine in Solidworks
Click Combine the Features toolbar, or click Insert, Features, Combine.
Combine PropertyManager will appear.
In the Operation Type, click Subtract.
In the Main Body, select the body that will be maintained as the main body.
For Main Body, select the body to keep. ...
For Bodies to Subtract, select the bodies whose material you want to remove.
or select a body of solid body design FeatureManager folder tree.
Under the body to Subtract, select the bodies which we want to remove for Solid Bodies.
Click Show Preview to see the feature.
if it is appropriate ..... Click OK.

good luck 

 

How to make a Polar Array?
Click Home tab Modify panel Polar Array. Find.
Select the objects to array.
Specify a center point. A preview array is displayed.
Enter i (Items) and enter the number of objects to array.
Enter a (Angle) and enter the angle to fill. You can also drag the arrow grips to adjust the fill angle.

In making the polar array, we can make with counterclockwise or clockwise, depending on whether we will enter positive or negative value for sudutnya.Jari-finger array is determined by the distance from a particular focal point for the reference or base point on the last selected object. We can use a standard reference point (usually an arbitrary point which coincides with the point snap), or we can determine the new base point which will be used as a reference point. Array Size Limit If we determine a very large number of rows and columns to arrays, AutoCAD may take a long time to make copy.in default, the number of array elements that can be generated by a limited command is controlled by setting 100.000.MaxArray in registri.we can change boundary by assigning variables using the recording system MaxArray (setenv "MaxArray" "n") where n is the number between 100 and 10,000,000 (ten million).

Extruding from a selection.

The From panel establishes where the Extrude feature starts. By default, SolidWorks extrudes from the sketch plane. Other available options include: l Surface/Face/Plane. The extrude begins from a surface body, a face of a solid, or a reference plane. Extruding from a surface Cross-Reference Surface features are discussed in detail in Chapter 27. n l Vertex. The distance from the sketch plane to the selected vertex is treated as an offset distance. l Offset. You can enter an explicit offset distance, and you can change the direction of the offset. Direction 1 and Direction 2 Direction 1 and Direction 2 are always opposite one another. Direction 2 becomes inactive if you select Mid Plane for the end condition of Direction 1. The arrows that display in the graphics window show a single arrow for Direction 1 and a double arrow for Direction 2. For the Blind end condition, which is described next, dragging the arrows determines the distance of the extrude. Each of the end conditions is affected by the Reverse Direction toggle. This toggle simply changes the default direction by 180 degrees. You need to be careful when using this feature, particularly when using the Up to end conditions, because if the entity that you are extruding up to is not in the selected direction, an error results. Following is a brief description of each of the available end conditions for the Extrude feature: l Blind. Blind in this case means an explicit distance. The term is usually used in conjunction with holes of a specific depth, although here it is associated with a boss rather than a hole. l Up to Vertex. In effect, Up to Vertex works just like the Blind end condition, except that the distance is parametrically controlled by a model vertex or sketch point.

SolidWorks 2010
Bible
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