surface tutorials/pdf... · 2019. 6. 17. · Sketch1 on font plane: Define new plane for next...

Solidworks tutorial

A u t h o r : M . G h a s e m i

C o n t a c t u s : i n f o @ s o l i d w o r k s a d v i s o r . c o m

surface

www.solidworksadvisor.com

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You will create this webcam head during the tutorial:

What we use to accomplish this model :

• Plane

• Sketch

• Line , point , circle , ellipse

• Surface loft

• Surface extrude

• Surface trim

• Surface fill

• Surface knit

• Thicken

• Body delete

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The object of the tutorial is so funny and it’s surface curvature convinced me to select it as a surface tutorial .

First we are going to create the main body . take a look at it :

We create this shape by surface loft and for the loft we need some sketches (seven sketches to be precise) . here is a

preview of all the necessary sketches :



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We are going to create all of these sketches. Draw them just like the bellow pictures :

Sketch1 on font plane:

Define new plane for next sketch:

Sketch2 on plane1 :



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Define plane2 for next sketch:

Sketch3 on plane2 :



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Sketch4 on right plane :

If you want the spline to be fully defined you can do it by defining the points . for me it wasn’t necessary

Sketch5 on right plane :



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Sketch6 on top plane:

Sketch7 on top plane:



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We have all the necessary sketches for the loft . click on the “lofted surface” on surface toolbar and fill the property

manager just like bellow and click ok :



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Now we are going to make the speakers . sketch a circle on the right plane just like this :

Exit the sketch and click on the “ extruded surface” . fill the window just like this and click ok:



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As you can see in the picture , we need to cut the middle part of the extrude . we use trim for that purpose .

Click on the “trim surface” . fill the window carefully just like the picture .



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You must get this result , if not , check the parameters .

Shut off the ending circles on two sides .click on the “planer surface” on surface toolbar and choose the following edges .

click ok .



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We want to make some groove in front of the speakers . the process is amazing . first we should cut the unwanted area

.open a sketch on right plane and draw like this . use convert entities and trim tools .

Now extrude the sketch using “ extruded surface” on surface toolbar :



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Trim the two unwanted area in front of the speakers :

Hide the “surface extrude2” to see what we’ve done :



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Ok…we have to fill the trimmed area by our desired surface . you can fill it now by “filled surface” on surface toolbars

but the result surface would be just like the beginning . we want to create some groove on the surface so we a need a

sketch as a constraint to pull the surface back . define a plane for that sketch and draw it :

I know it’s a little weird but all the thing that we need in this sketch is a point:



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Now we are ready to make our first grooved surface . click on the “filled surface” and follow the pictures to make it :

In order to choose a boundary ,right click on a segment of it and from the pop-up menu choose “select open loop” .

Click ok to create the first filled surface .



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Do just the same for the other side of the part .first create the sketch :

Then fill the surface :



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We have created this model so far:

Now we are going to cut a hole for speakers . we need to trim the body again. And for that we should have another

extruded surface which needs a sketch so draw this sketch on plane3 :



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Extrude the sketch:

Trim the speakers holes:



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We are almost done just need to thick the body to make a solid part . the “thicken” tool in surface toolbar will do that

for us . but before we do this , we should get rid of the unwanted surfaces which would interrupt the thicken process .

we delete these surfaces by “delete body” in the features toolbar .

Click the “delete body” in the features toolbar and delete the bellow surfaces :

The result:



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Its time to make the body a whole integrated surface for thicken process . we use “knit surface” for this purpose . click it

on the surface toolbar .

now make it solid . click “thicken” on the surface toolbar and do the final step :



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Congratulation my friend .now you have this webcam head :


M.Ghasemi



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