Solidworks Practice Homework
Place in public directory by beginning of Class III
Solidworks Practice
Housing
25
• Open a new part file
• Create Cylinder
30
• Open a sketch on the Front (or plane 1) Plane
• Draw a Construction line up from the origin
• Draw a circle with the center on the construction line, and dimension
it to be 25mm
• Add another Dimension from the origin to the circle center. Make it
30mm
• Select Extrude Feature, and select Mid Plane and enter 80mm
• Label this Cylinder
Solidworks Practice
Housing
Create Vertical Bar
• Open a sketch on the face of the cylinder
• Draw a vertical line up from the origin and
through the center line of the Cylinder
• Click off the line, click on the top endpoint,
and Add a relation to make it concentric with Cylinder
• Hit Extrude Boss/Base button
• On the Thin Feature Tab, Select Mid-Plane Type,
and 7.5mm Wall Thickness
• Use the blind condition with 80mm setting.
• Click OK and label this Vertical Bar
Solidworks Practice
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Create the Base
• On the face of the cylinder, open a sketch
and draw a line from the origin to the left
• Dimension it 25mm. 25
• Hit the Extrude Base Button; Hit the Thin Feature
Tab and select a • Wall Thickness of 7.5mm and Type: One-
Direction. Make sure it is thickening upward. Again use Blind,
80mm.
• Label this Base
Solidworks Practice
Housing
Make inside hole 20
• Select the front face of the part and
open a sketch
• Orient the view towards Front
(from the standard views toolbar)
• Draw any Circle and Dimension it to 20mm diameter
• Hold down CTRL, Select the outer edge of the Cylinder feature, and
right click to Add Relations, and choose Concentric
ª Select Extrude Cut Feature, and select Though All in the Type box
• Click OK and label this Hole
Solidworks Practice
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Create a Rib
• Select the Front Plane (or plane 1) and open a sketch
• On the Front view, draw a line from the bottom corner of the ‘L’ to a
point on the outside Cylinder edge. Make sure that you are on the
center plane.
• Highlight both the line and the Cylinder edge, and right click Add
Relations, selecting Tangent
• Select Insert, Features, Rib
• The Property Manager appears. Select Mid plane Thickness of
7.5mm. For Extrusion Direction: Parallel to sketch. Toggle the
Flip Material Side box.
• Select OK and label this Rib
Solidworks Practice
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Create a Mounting Hole
• Highlight the top plane of the Base and 5
open a sketch
• Draw a circle, and Dimension it 5mm diameter
7.5 7.5
• Dimension it 7.5mm away from the Front face,
and 7.5mm away from the side face furthest from the origin
• Select Extrude Cut; Type: Through All
• Click OK and label Mounting Hole
Solidworks Practice
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Mirror Features
• Holding down CTRL key, highlight Front Plane
(or plane 1) and Mounting Hole in the Feature Manager tree.
• Select Insert, Pattern/Mirror, Mirror Feature; All your selections
should be in the proper selection boxes.
• Confirm this, and click OK. Leave this named Mirror1
Solidworks Practice
Housing
Add a Fillet
• Select the edge on the inside elbow of the base
• Select Fillet
• Input a Radius of 7.5mm, press OK; leave this named Fillet1
