August 12, 2008

[LEARN TO DRAW A HELICAL GEAR]

There are five steps to draw Helical Gear

1. Create the Extrusion
1. Click Extruded Boss/Base on the Features toolbar.

The Front, Top, and Right planes appear, and the pointer changes to 2. Select the Front plane. 3. Click Circle on the Sketch toolbar.

4. Move the pointer to the sketch origin. Click the origin to create a circle. 5. In the Property Manager, under Parameters: Set Radius to 17.53. 6. Click Exit Sketch on the Sketch toolbar.

, then move the pointer

7. In the Property Manager, under Direction 1: Select Blind in End Condition. Set Depth to 25.

8. Click OK

to create the extrusion. on the Features toolbar. of

9. Click Extruded Boss/Base

10. Move the pointer over the front face of the part. And select the front face the part.

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11. Click Circle

on the Sketch toolbar. , then move the pointer

12. Move the pointer to the sketch origin. Click the origin to create a circle. 13. In the Property Manager, under Parameters: Set Radius to 12. 14. Click Exit Sketch on the Sketch toolbar.

15. In the Property Manager, under Direction 1: Select Blind in End Condition. Set Depth to 10.

16. Click OK

to create the extrusion.

2. Creating the Cut Extrude

1. Click Rotate View other side part. on the View toolbar and drag to rotate and see the

2. Click Extruded Cut

on the Features toolbar.

3. Move the pointer over the front face of the part. And select the front face

of the part.

4. Select Normal To

in Standard View Toolbars.

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5. Click Circle

on the Sketch toolbar. , then move the pointer

6. Move the pointer to the sketch origin. Click the origin to create a circle. 7. In the Property Manager, under Parameters: Set Radius to 13. to 18.

8. Repeat step 5 ~ 7, set Radius

9. Repeat step 5, then move the pointer to the up-right from sketch origin. Click, then move the pointer to create a circle. 10. In the Property Manager, under Parameters: Set Center X Coordinate Set Center Y Coordinate Set Radius to 6. on the Sketch toolbar. , then move the pointer to 7.05. to 12.8.

11. Click Centerline

12. Move the pointer to the sketch origin. Click the origin vertically to create a circleline . 13. Right click, then click Select 14. Click Mirror Entities on the Sketch toolbar.

15. In the Property Manager, under Options: Select Arc3 in Entities to mirror: Click Copy . . .

Select Line1 in Mirror about: .

16. Click OK

Line1

Arc3

Arc2

Arc1

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17. Click Trim Entities

on the Sketch toolbar.

18. In the Property Manager, under Options: Click Power Trim . To trim entities, hold down and drag your cursor across the entities, or pick on an entity and then pick on a bounding entity or anywhere on the screen. 19. Click Sketch Fillet on the Sketch toolbar.

20. In the Property Manager, under Parameters: Set Radius to 0.5. .

21. Click Arc1 and Arc3 in sketch entity, then click Arc1 and Arc4. Click OK

Arc4

Arc3

Arc1

22. Click Exit Sketch

on the Sketch toolbar to cut extrusion.

23. In the Property Manager, under Direction 1: Select Blind in End Condition. Set Depth to 25.

24. Click OK

. on the Sketch toolbar.

25. Click Isometric

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Cut-Extude1

Extude1

3. Creating the Circular Pattern

1. Click Axis on the Sketch toolbar. 2. In the Property Manager, under Selections: Click Cylindrical/Conical Face . .

Select Extrude1 in Reference Entities .

3. Click OK

4. Click Circular Pattern on the Sketch toolbar. 5. In the Property Manager, under Parameters: Select Axis1 in Pattern Axis. Set Angle to 360. Set Number of Instances to 15. Click Equal spacing

In the Property Manager, under Features to Pattern: Select Cut-Extrude1 in Features to Pattern .

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6. Click OK

4. Creating of Flex Twisting

1. In Toolbar Menu, select Insert, Feature, Flex 2. In the Property Manager, under Flex Input: Select Solid Body<1> in Bodies for Flex Click Twisting. Set Angle to 15. . .

In the Property Manager, under Trim Plane 1: Set Distance to 10.

3. Click OK

5. Creating the Cut

1. Click Extruded Cut on the Features toolbar.

2. Move the pointer over the front face of the part. And select the front face 3. Click Circle on the Sketch toolbar.

of the part.

4. Move the pointer to the sketch origin. Click the origin to create a circle.

, then move the pointer

5. In the Property Manager, under Parameters: Set Radius to 6.

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6. Click Exit Sketch

on the Sketch toolbar.

7. In the Property Manager, under Direction 1: Select Through All in End Condition .

8. Click OK

to create the cut extrusion.

Congratulations! You have completed this lesson.

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