Engineering Design Project The Mountainboard - SolidWorks

Engineering Design Project The Mountainboard - SolidWorks

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Engineering Design Project

The Mountainboard

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Document Number: PMS0718-ENG Contents

Introduction 1

Lesson 1: Using the Interface 4

Lesson 2: Basic Functionality 22

Lesson 3: Basic Parts — The Binding 78

Lesson 4: Revolved Features — The Wheel Hub 117

Lesson 5: Thin Features — The Deck 188

Lesson 6: Multibody Parts — The Axle and Truck 242

Lesson 7: Sweeps and Lofts — Springs and Binding 333

Lesson 8: Final Assembly 403

Lesson 9: Presenting Results 450

Glossary 533

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Introduction

About This Course

The SolidWorks Engineering Design Project, The Mountainboard and its supporting

materials is designed to assist you in learning SolidWorks in an academic setting. The

SolidWorks Engineering Design Project, The Mountainboard offers a competency-based

approach to learning 3D design concepts and techniques.

Online Tutorials

The SolidWorks Engineering Design Project is a companion

resource and supplement for the SolidWorks Online Tutorials.

Accessing the Tutorials

To start the Online Tutorials, click Help, SolidWorks

Tutorials. The SolidWorks window is resized and a second

window will appears next to it with a list of the available

tutorials. As you move the pointer over the links, an illustration

of the tutorial will appear at the bottom of the window. Click

the desired link to start that tutorial.

Conventions

Set your screen resolution to 1280x1024 for optimal viewing

of the tutorials.

The following icons appear in the tutorials:

Moves to the next screen in the tutorial.

Represents a note or tip. It is not a link; the information

is to the right of the icon. Notes and tips provide time-

saving steps and helpful hints.

You can click most toolbar buttons that appear in the

lessons to flash the corresponding SolidWorks button.The first time you click the

button, an ActiveX control message appears: An ActiveX control on this page

might be unsafe to interact with other parts of the page. Do you want to

allow this interaction? This is a standard precautionary measure. The ActiveX

controls in the Online Tutorials will not harm your system. If you click No, the

scripts are disabled for that topic. Click Yes to run the scripts and flash the button.

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Engineering Design and Technology Series

Open File or Set this option automatically opens the file or sets the option.

Video example shows a video about this step.

A closer look at... links to more information about a topic. Although not required

to complete the tutorial, it offers more detail on the subject.

Why did I... links to more information about a procedure, and the reasons for the

method given. This information is not required to complete the tutorial.

Printing the Tutorials

If you like, you can print the Online Tutorials by following this procedure:

1 On the tutorial navigation toolbar, click Show .

This displays the table of contents for the Online Tutorials.

2 Right-click the book representing the lesson you wish to print and select Print from the

shortcut menu.

The Print Topics dialog box appears.

3 Select Print the selected heading and all subtopics, and click OK.

4 Repeat this process for each lesson that you want to print.

Using This Course

This course is not just this book. The SolidWorks Engineering Design Project, The

Mountainboard is the focal point of the SolidWorks course — the road map for it. The

supporting materials that are in the SolidWorks Online Tutorials give you a lot of

flexibility in how you learn SolidWorks.

Learning 3D design is an interactive process. You will learn best when you explore the

practical applications of the concepts you learn. This course has many activities and

exercises that will allow you to put design concepts into practice. Using the provided files,

you can do so quickly.

The lessons for this course are designed to balance lecture and hands-on learning. There

are also assessments and quizzes that give you additional measures of your progress.

Lesson Structure

Each lesson contains the following components:

(cid:137) Goals of the Lesson — Clear objectives for the lesson.

(cid:137) Before Beginning the Lesson — Prerequisites, if any, for the current lesson.

(cid:137) Review of Previous Lesson — You reflect back on the material and models described in

the previous lesson with questions and examples. Answer these questions to reinforce

concepts.

(cid:137) Lesson Outline — Describes the major concepts explored in each lesson.

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Engineering Design and Technology Series

(cid:137) Active Learning Exercises — You create parts, assemblies and drawings that will make

up the final project, The Mountainboard.

(cid:137) 5-minute Assessments — These review the concepts developed in the outline of the

lesson and the active learning exercises.

(cid:137) Exercises and Projects — These exercises and projects provide additional material to

practice the concepts learned in the lesson.

(cid:137) Lesson Quizzes — Fill in the blank, true/false and short answer questions compose the

lesson quizzes.

(cid:137) Lesson Summary — Quick recap of the main points of the lesson.

Mountainboard Design Project with SolidWorks 3 1

Lesson 1: Using the Interface

Goals of This Lesson

(cid:137) Become familiar with the Microsoft Windows interface.

(cid:137) Become familiar with the SolidWorks interface.

Before Beginning This Lesson

(cid:137) Verify that Microsoft Windows is loaded and running on your classroom/lab computer.

(cid:137) Verify that the SolidWorks software is loaded and running on your classroom/lab

computer in accordance with your SolidWorks license.

(cid:137) Load the training files.

Outline of Lesson 1

(cid:137) Active Learning Exercise — Using the Interface

• Starting a Program

• Exiting a Program

• Searching for a File or Folder

• Opening an Existing File

• Saving a File

• Copying a File

• Resizing Windows

• SolidWorks Windows

• Toolbars

• Mouse Buttons

• Context-sensitive Shortcut Menus

• Getting Online Help

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Active Learning Exercise — Using the Interface

Start the SolidWorks application, search for a file, save the file, save the file with a new

name, and review the basic user interface.

The step-by-step instructions are given below.

Starting a Program

1 Click the Start button in the lower left corner of the window. The Start menu

appears. The Start menu allows you to select the basic functions of the Microsoft

Windows environment.

Note: Click means to press and release the left mouse button.

2 From the Start menu, click All Programs, SolidWorks, SolidWorks as shown below.

Note: Depending on how SolidWorks was installed on your computer, the version

and the Service Pack number, 2010 SP2.1 for instance, may be included or not

listed.

The SolidWorks application program is now running.

Note: Your Start menu may appear different than the illustration depending on which

versions of the operating system is loaded on your system.

TIP: A desktop shortcut is an icon that you can double-click to go

directly to the file or folder represented. If your system desktop

has a shortcut to the SolidWorks application program, you can

start the program by double-clicking the left mouse button on this

shortcut. The illustration shows the SolidWorks shortcut.

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Engineering Design and Technology Series

Exit the Program

To exit the application program, click File, Exit or click on the main SolidWorks

window.

Searching for a File or Folder

You can search for files (or folders containing files). This is useful if you cannot remember

the exact name of the file that you need.

Windows has two methods to search for files, Microsoft Desktop Search and the Search

Companion.

Microsoft Desktop Search

Microsoft Desktop Search is normally loaded when SolidWorks is installed on your

computer. After installation, it must create an index, similar to the index in the back of

most reference books. When you search using Microsoft Desktop search, the search

program just looks in the index for the location of the information you are searching for

and displays the result.

While Microsoft Desktop Search makes the search process much faster, it depends on

creating and maintaining the index. If the index has not been created, we will not get a

valid result from the search.

Search Companion

The Search Companion does not require any setup. When used to search, it starts at the

beginning of the search path and checks everything. This is very much like searching for a

topic in a book by starting at the first page and checking each page until you find the topic.

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Search for a file

We will now use Search to fine a file.

1 Click Start, Search. Search for the SolidWorks part dumbell.

As we have not set up Microsoft Desktop Search, we will use the Search Companion.

2 If Microsoft Desktop Search is loaded on your computer, you will get the following

window. Click use Search Companion.

Note: If Microsoft Desktop Search is not installed, you will go

directly to the Search Companion.

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