Tutorial 2 Surface Modeling 1 Copyright 2006 JD Mather Inventor 11 TUTORIAL 2 Trim Surfaces Learning Objectives After completing this tutorial, you will be able to: • Construct and use surface features in solid modeling • Incorporate surface features in part design when appropriate • Construct Extruded, Revolved and Lofted surfaces • Trim surfaces Required Competencies Before starting this tutorial, you should have been able to: • Construct, constraint and dimension sketches • Project geometry on sketch planes • Extrude sketched profiles • Revolve sketched profiles • Loft sketched profiles • Understand the concepts of work and placed features • Understand how to manipulate the history tree in the browser Figure 1: Putty Knife
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After completing this tutorial, you will be able to: • Construct and use surface features in solid modeling • Incorporate surface features in part design when appropriate • Construct Extruded, Revolved and Lofted surfaces • Trim surfaces
Required Competencies
Before starting this tutorial, you should have been able to: • Construct, constraint and dimension sketches • Project geometry on sketch planes • Extrude sketched profiles • Revolve sketched profiles • Loft sketched profiles • Understand the concepts of work and placed features • Understand how to manipulate the history tree in the browser
Figure 1: Putty Knife
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The model in Figure 1 could be done with only the Inventor solids tools, but we will use surfaces to create the solid in order to become more familiar with working with surfaces.
1. Open a new Standard(in).ipt . Click Return to exit sketch mode and derive Putty Knife Master Sketch.ipt with the sketches shown.
Figure 2
2. Turn off the visibility of all of the sketches except the Handle Base Sketch. Save
3. Extrude the base sketch .75” – don’t forget to set the output as surfaces first. (Of course it would be easier to simply extrude the solid, but the goal is to become familiar with manipulating surfaces.)
Figure 4 4. Select the Boundary Patch tool and then select the four bottom edges of the
surfaces.
Figure 5
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5. It might be easier to see the surfaces by turning off the Translucent property. In Inventor 11 you can also change the color properties of surfaces. Add a Boundary Patch to the top, you might want to change the color of the top or bottom to help keep track of which is which.
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6. Turn on the Handle Relief sketch and Extrude From To selecting the side surfaces.
19. Select the Workplane tool and then select the projected line. After selecting the projected line select the top surface. Enter 35 as the angle. (Tip: If you edit the angle of a workplane you must Update to see the change.)
Figure 20
20. Split the part – select the new angled workplane as the Split Tool and select Part as the Method. Be sure the arrow is pointing in the correct Remove direction
Figure 21
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21. Re‐open the Putty Knife Handle.ipt. Then select Derived Part and then the Putty Knife Blade.ipt Make sure the knife blade is derived as Body as Work Surfaces.
23. Detail the Handle, assemble the parts and create a rivet.
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In this tutorial we learned how to Trim and Sculpt surfaces and to use a master sketch modeling technique to control the dimensions of several components in an assembly from a single file. We also learned how to do a Boolean operations (union, subtract, intersection) between parts.