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Complex Surface Modeling 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 Swept and Lofted surfaces • Derive sketches 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: Toy Car Body
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1. Open the file Car Body.ipt. Pull down the EOP marker to reveal the sketches for this tutorial. Looks quite complex, but when we analyze the sketches one‐by‐one it is a much simpler problem.
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2. Pull the EOP marker up leaving only the Front and Front_sweep Path Sketches visible. Sweep the Front sketch along the Path sketch.
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3. Pull the EOP marker down revealing the Back and Back_sweep Path Sketches. Sweep the Back sketch along the Path sketch.
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4. Pull the EOP marker down revealing the Left_side and Left_side_sweep Path Sketches. Sweep the Left side sketch along the Path sketch.
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5. Mirror the side surface.
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6. Pull the EOP marker down revealing the Grill Spline, Front Quarterpanel, Rear Quarterpanel, and Tail Spline sketches. Loft a surface across the sketches.
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7. Make the xy‐plane visible.
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8. Start the Sculpt command and select the xy‐plane and all of the surfaces.
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9. Start the Fillet command and select Face Fillet. Select the front edges and set the fillet to Smooth(G2)..
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10. Fillet the top and back edges with tangent fillets. (I would like to use G2 continuity but it gives an error in this case.)
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11. Pull the EOP marker down revealing the Canopy and Canopy_sweep Sketches. Sweep the Canopy and change the color property.
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12. Add a 6mm tangent fillet to the intersecting loop between the body and the canopy.
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13. Start a new sketch on the xy‐plane and sketch the rectangle shown.
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14. Make the Wheel Wells Sketch visible and Extrude‐cut mid‐plane through all.
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15. Make the Mounting Posts sketch visible and Extrude To Next the two circles with a Taper of 3°.
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16. Mirror the mounting posts.
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17. Make the Wheel Wells sketch visible again and set the sketch to Shared. Save the file.
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18. Start a new Standard(mm).ipt file and Derive the Car Body as Solid Body and the Wheel Wells sketch.
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19. Extrude the Wheel Wells circles 30mm mid‐plane.
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20. Start a new Sketch on the xy‐plane and project the edges of the extruded cylinders on both sides.
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21. Create a rectangle and add co‐linear constraints and two dimensions as shown.
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22. Extrude the rectangle a distance of 100mm.
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23. Delete Face with the Lump or Void option the internal void. Save the file with the name Car Body Toolbody.ipt.
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24. Start a new Standard(mm).ipt file and Derive the Car Body Toolbody as a Body as Work Surfaces.
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25. Start a new sketch on the xy‐plane and Project Geometry two diagonal corners.
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26. Create a rectangle constrained to the two diagonal points and Extrude the rectangle a distance of 150mm.
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27. Split the derived work surface from the part and save the file with the name Car Body Mold Cavity.
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28. Create a new Standard(mm).ipt file and Derive the Car Body Toolbody as Solid Body.
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29. Derive the Car Body as Body as Work Surfaces.
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30. Split the Work Surface from the part and save the file with the name Car Body Mold Core.
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by Kyle Brand In this tutorial we learned how to break a complex model into manageable steps. With time and effort some impressive work can be accomplished.
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