F1 in Schools Tutorial 1 - Maysaa Nazar - Workshopmaysaaiat.weebly.com/uploads/5/8/8/3/5883161/new_bloodhound_block_tutorial.pdf · F1 in Schools Tutorial 1 A Step by Step Guide To

F1 in Schools Tutorial 1 A Step by Step Guide

To Drawing a

Bloodhound Block In

SolidWorks

There are 7 Achievement

Points to Collect During This Tutorial!

Requirements: SolidWorks Student Edition or SolidWorks Design Kit

Information for F1 in Schools Coordinator: Welcome to our new range of F1 in Schools (SolidWorks) Tutorials! In writing these tutorials, we have tried to look at this project from your perspective and in the following ways:

• You are busy subject teachers whose main priority is your core- curriculum area. • You know little about SolidWorks and know it can be a HUGE undertaking to know all there is

to know about any CAD package. • You want to feel confident to answer student questions and will not undertake these tutorials

in front of a class until you are ready to do so. If the above scenario sounds familiar, we are relieved! It means we have understood your needs and have aimed these tutorials in exactly the right direction. We hope the above three issues have been resolved as follows:

• We know how busy you are! These tutorials have been written with the hope that you can simply hand them out / give yourself some space / let the students explore and discover for themselves / making progress at YOUR pace.

• We have aimed these tutorials at those with no CAD experience at all. Secondly, neither you or your students need to know all there is to know about SolidWorks for the following reasons:

1. There simply is not enough time to do so. 2. You don’t need to. 3. Both you and your students would die of boredom and feel you were either achieving nothing or were achieving far too slowly to remain interested.

• We have reduced each tutorial down to a manageable chunk for both you and your students to read / attempt / attempt again / attempt again with your own ideas rather than ours.

Summary and Suggested Approach

As a suggested starting point (and without wanting to teach you how to suck eggs) we suggest the following:

• The whole group work through the booklets, regardless of chosen areas of responsibility in their F1 in Schools team. This will surprise you when you hear students wishing to change their roles, having found the software easier or harder than they anticipated! The ACHIVIEMENT POINTS can be used by you as a reward system.

• Save / repeat / save again / repeat again. This should be repeated until the students are correcting their own errors and drawing their own ideas rather than ours. You may then wish to assign the role of Team Design Engineer having seen who is most capable.

As with all of our support materials, we welcome your feedback. This is the only way we know we are meeting your needs as F1 in Schools coordinators. With regards, Don Sankey F1 in Schools UAE

D. Sankey 2010 Page 1

For Your Information We will now show you how to draw the block of BALSA-WOOD which we will use to make your

Bloodhound car in Tutorial 2.

1. OPEN SOLIDWORKS / SELECT NEW as shown below

2. SELECT PART in the New SolidWorks Document window as shown below, then SELECT OK

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3. SELECT EXTRUDED BOSS / BASE located in the Feature Tab area of the Command Manager

4. SELECT FRONT PLANE to create a new sketch as shown below


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We will now set up the page so we can start the drawing of your block

You have OPENED A NEW

PART IN SOLIDWORKS!

Be sure you are in the Features area

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2

You have SET UP THE

PAGE!

We will now draw your Bloodhound block, starting

with the FRONT VIEW

5. SELECT RECTANGLE as shown below

6. DRAW A RECTANGLE as shown below

Note the position of the origin

…then move and click here

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…then click the ACCEPT symbol to

finish 21

Click left mouse button here…

REMEMBER! We click on the Accept button in the top right corner of your screen to accept a 2D sketch and to make it 3D!

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You have CREATED A

SOLID OBJECT! We will now make this block the correct thickness

STOP AND SAVE YOUR

WORK!


7. SET THE EXTRUDE DETAILS on the property manager, CHANGE DIRECTION 1 TO

BLIND then ENTER A DISTANCE OF 42mm / SELECT OK to accept the extrusion

Set to 42mm 2

3Select OK

Set to Blind 1

STOP AND SAVE YOUR

WORK!

We will now make this the correct shape

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You have CREATED THE

BASIC CUBOID!

SAVE YOUR WORK / start a new drawing and try repeating everything you have done so far…………….without looking at your tutorial pages!


8. RE-OPEN THE SKETCH OF YOUR BLOCK by following the steps below

Select + to expand the extrude menu

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2 Right click mouse button on Sketch

Select Edit Sketch button

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9. CHANGE THE VIEW TO NORMAL as shown below

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2

10. SELECT SMART DIMENSION as shown below


11. SELECT THE BOTTOM LINE OF THE RECTANGLE / hold down the CTRL key and then SELECT THE ORIGIN as shown in steps 1&2 below

POSITION THE DIMENSION TO THE LEFT THEN ENTER A DIMENSION OF 33mm.

12. SELECT THE BOTTOM LINE OF THE RECTANGLE click underneath the rectangle

and enter a dimension of 295mm. as shown in step 1 below

13. SELECT THE LEFT VERTICLE LINE OF THE RECTANGLE click to the left of the rectangle and enter a dimension of 70mm. as shown in step 2 below

14. SELECT ZOOM TO FIT as shown below to place your work in the middle of your

screen


Select the bottom line of the rectangle

Select the bottom line then add a 295mm dimension,

enter or tick to accept

1

Hold down the CTRL key on your keyboard and

select the origin

2

Click to the left and enter 33mm, enter or

tick to accept

1

5 You have ADDED

MEASUREMENTS!

STOP AND SAVE YOUR

WORK!

Select this vertical line then add a

70mm dimension, enter or tick to

accept

2

3


15. PRESS ESCAPE ON YOUR KEYBOARD to exit from Smart Dimension 16. RIGHT CLICK ON THE INDICATED CONSTRAINT BELOW then CLICK ON DELETE

ON THE POP-UP MENU

Right click on this

constraint.

1

…when menu appears,

select DELETE

2

17. SELECT THE SMART DIMENSION TOOL SELECT THE RIGHT VERTICLE LINE OF THE RECTANGLE click to the right of the rectangle and enter a dimension of 18mm. as shown below

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Select Smart dimension tool

1 Select right vertical

line of rectangle 2

Click to the right and enter 18mm,

enter or tick to accept

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18. CHANGE VIEW TO ISOMETRIC / SELECT ACCEPT as shown below


Select Accept 2 Select Isometric

view 1

We will now make the hole in the back for the CO2 gas cartridge which will power your car

STOP AND SAVE YOUR

WORK!

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You have CREATED THE REAL

SHAPE OF THE BLOCK!

19. CHANGE THE VIEW TO LEFT as shown below

20. SELECT THE EXTRUDED CUT TOOL then select the face of the block shown on screen as indicated.

Click here to select this face of your block to position the

hole for the gas cartridge

Open View Orientation menu

2 Select Left

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21. SELECT THE CIRCLE TOOL as shown below

Steps 22+23 only apply if you CANNOT clearly see the centre of the block. If you CAN……move to step 24


22. MOVE THE MOUSE ACROSS THE TOP EDGE OF THE BLOCK UNTIL A SMALL YELLOW SQUARE APPEARS. This will help to find the centre of the block

1 Move mouse until you see this small yellow square

23. SLIDE THE MOUSE DOWN UNTIL A HORIZONTAL LINE APPEARS. You have now

found the centre of the block

Move mouse down 1

Look for horizontal line to appear

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24. CLICK ONCE ON THE CENTRE OF THE BLOCK move the mouse CLICK AGAIN

WHEN A CIRCLE APPEARS as shown below

Click once for centre

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Move and click again to make a circle

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We will now make this 2D circle into the 3D hole in the back of the block for the CO2 gas cartridge

which will power your car

25. SELECT SMART DIMENSION TOOL add a 19mm diameter dimension to the circle as shown below

STOP AND

SAVE YOUR WORK!

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…change the value to 19mm, enter or tick to accept

26. CHANGE THE VIEW TO ISOMETRIC and THE DISPLAY TO WIREFRAME AS SHOWN

BELOW

Hello

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27. CLICK ON ACCEPT TO FINISH THE SKETCH

28. SET THE DIRECTION1 TO BLIND / DISTANCE TO 52MM / CLICK

Click OK (tick) to accept 3

Set to BLIND

Set to 52mm

2

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29. SET DISPLAY STYLE TO SHADED the result is below

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You have COMPLETED THE

BLOCK!

STOP AND SAVE YOUR

WORK!


NEXT TUTORIAL?.....Tutorial 2 - Designing a Bloodhound Car in SolidWorks


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