From the course: Modeling a Motorcycle Engine with SOLIDWORKS
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Capturing the design intent of the flywheel - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: Modeling a Motorcycle Engine with SOLIDWORKS
Capturing the design intent of the flywheel
- In the first video of this chapter, we used equations to capture the designing intent of the sketch. We can visualize this using the Instant 3D capabilities of SOLIDWORKS. The "Instant 3D" toggle command can be found on the features command bar. Click on the first feature in either the feature manager, or directly in the graphics view. This will show the selected features dimensions. Blue dimensions are measurements entered into the "Features" properties, in this case our extruda depth. Black dimensions are what we have created at sketch level. Notice the little blue orb on the circles dimension. I can click and drag this to adjust the dimension size in real time. Note that because of the equation constraints, as we increase the size of this dimension, the other sketch entities adjust accordingly, and the profile of our flywheel looks as intended. However, notice that the 40 millimeter extrusion depth has not scaled accordingly, and has remained at 40 millimeters. Thus, we have not…
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Sketching the flywheel4m 25s
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Sketching the dimensions of the flywheel1m 58s
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Extruding the flywheel3m 49s
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Capturing the design intent of the flywheel2m 44s
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Building the shafts of the flywheel3m 50s
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Cutting the shafts of the flywheel4m 49s
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Cutting the back of the flywheel4m 23s
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Shaping the arc4m 25s
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Filleting the flywheel3m 26s
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Configuring the splines of the flywheel4m 33s
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