F1 in Schools Tutorial 3 A Step by Step Guide To Drawing an. F1 Block In SolidWorks

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1 F in Schools Tutorial A Step by Step Guide To Drawing an F Block In SolidWorks There are 7 Achievement Points to Collect During This Tutorial! Requirements: SolidWorks Student Edition or SolidWorks Design Kit You are advised to complete Bloodhound Class tutorials & before attempting this tutorial.

2 Information for F in Schools Coordinator: Welcome to our new range of F in Schools (SolidWorks) Tutorials! In writing these tutorials, we have tried to look at this project from your perspective and in the following ways: You are busy subject teachers whose main priority is your core- curriculum area. You know little about SolidWorks and know it can be a HUGE undertaking to know all there is to know about any CAD package. You want to feel confident to answer student questions and will not undertake these tutorials in front of a class until you are ready to do so. If the above scenario sounds familiar, we are relieved! It means we have understood your needs and have aimed these tutorials in exactly the right direction. We hope the above three issues have been resolved as follows: We know how busy you are! These tutorials have been written with the hope that you can simply hand them out / give yourself some space / let the students explore and discover for themselves / making progress at YOUR pace. We have aimed these tutorials at those with no CAD experience at all. Secondly, neither you or your students need to know all there is to know about SolidWorks for the following reasons:. There simply is not enough time to do so.. You don t need to.. Both you and your students would die of boredom and feel you were either achieving nothing or were achieving far too slowly to remain interested. We have reduced each tutorial down to a manageable chunk for both you and your students to read / attempt / attempt again / attempt again with your own ideas rather than ours. Summary and Suggested Approach As a suggested starting point (and without wanting to teach you how to suck eggs) we suggest the following: The whole group work through the booklets, regardless of chosen areas of responsibility in their F in Schools team. This will surprise you when you hear students wishing to change their roles, having found the software easier or harder than they anticipated! The ACHIVIEMENT POINTS can be used by you as a reward system. Save / repeat / save again / repeat again. This should be repeated until the students are correcting their own errors and drawing their own ideas rather than ours. You may then wish to assign the role of Team Design Engineer having seen who is most capable. As with all of our support materials, we welcome your feedback. This is the only way we know we are meeting your needs as F in Schools coordinators. With regards, Don Sankey F in Schools UAE D. Sankey 00 Page

3 For Your Information We will now show you how to draw the block of BALSA- WOOD which we will use to make your F-Class car. OPEN SOLIDWORKS & SELECT NEW. SELECT PART. SELECT OK 4. SELECT OPTIONS 5. SELECT DOCUMENT PROPERTIES 6. SELECT UNITS D. Sankey 00 Page

4 . SELECT EXTRUDED BOSS / BASE located in the Feature Tab area of the Command Manager Be sure you are in the Features Tab area. SELECT FRONT PLANE to create a new sketch as shown below SET UP THE PAGE! We will now draw your F-Class block, starting with the FRONT VIEW. SELECT RECTANGLE as shown below 4. DRAW A RECTANGLE starting at the origin as shown below Click left mouse button here then click the ACCEPT symbol to finish then move and click here Note the position of the origin D. Sankey 00 Page

5 REMEMBER! We click on the Accept button in the top right corner of your screen to accept a D sketch and to make it D! CREATED A SOLID OBJECT! We will now make this block the correct thickness STOP AND SAVE YOUR WORK! 5. SET THE EXTRUDE DETAILS on the property manager, CHANGE DIRECTIONS & TO BLIND then ENTER A DISTANCE OF.5mm FOR BOTH / SELECT OK the extrusion to accept Set both to Blind Tick OK Set both to.5mm 4 CREATED THE BASIC CUBOID! We will now make this the correct shape STOP AND SAVE YOUR WORK! D. Sankey 00 Page 4

6 SAVE YOUR WORK / start a new drawing and try repeating everything you have done so far.without looking at your tutorial pages! 6. RE-OPEN THE SKETCH OF YOUR BLOCK by following the steps below Select + to expand the extrude menu Select Edit Sketch button Right click mouse button on Sketch 7. CHANGE THE VIEW TO NORMAL as shown below 8. SELECT SMART DIMENSION as shown below D. Sankey 00 Page 5

7 9. SELECT THE BOTTOM LINE OF THE RECTANGLE / set this dimension to mm SELECT THE LEFT VERTICLE LINE / set this dimension to 50mm as shown below Dimension the left vertical line to 50mm Select accept Dimension the bottom line of the rectangle to mm 5 ADDED MEASUREMENTS! STOP AND SAVE YOUR WORK! 0. SELECT ZOOM TO FIT as shown below to place your work in the middle of your screen. CHANGE THE VIEW TO LEFT as shown below Open View Orientation menu Select Left D. Sankey 00 Page 6

8 . SELECT THE EXTRUDED CUT TOOL then select the face of the block shown on screen as indicated. Click here to select this face of your block to position the hole for the gas cartridge. SELECT THE CIRCLE TOOL as shown below 4. MOVE THE MOUSE OVER THE ORIGIN AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BLOCK then move up to see a centre-line appear Move mouse here until you see the centre-line appear Move mouse UP Click to position the centre 5. SLIDE THE MOUSE OUT / CLICK ONCE TO POSITION THE FINISHED CIRCLE D. Sankey 00 Page 7

9 6. ESCAPE / SELECT THE ORIGIN / HOLD DOWN SHIFT & SELECT THE CENTRE OF THE CIRCLE we now need to add a vertical relation between these two points With origin and centre both selected, click VERTICAL RELATION 7. SELECT SMART DIMENSION TOOL dimension circle to 9mm and position circle 9mm from the base as shown below Select to accept the sketch when finished We will now make this D circle into the D hole in the back of the block for the CO gas cartridge which will power your car STOP AND SAVE YOUR WORK! 8. CHANGE THE VIEW TO ISOMETRIC and THE DISPLAY TO WIREFRAME AS SHOWN BELOW Hello D. Sankey 00 Page 8

10 9. SET THE DIRECTION TO BLIND / DISTANCE TO 5MM / CLICK Click OK (tick) to accept Set to BLIND Set to 5mm 0. SET DISPLAY STYLE TO SHADED the result is below 6 COMPLETED THE BLOCK AND THE HOLE FOR THE GAS! STOP AND SAVE YOUR WORK! We will now make the groove which runs down the centre / underneath of the block. REPEAT STEPS &4. CREATE AND DIMENSION A RECTANGLE as shown below. The rectangle is 6mm x 6mm. Positioned in the centre of the baseline. D. Sankey 00 Page 9

11 . ACCEPT THE SKETCH / MAKE SURE DIRECTION IS THROUGH ALL / TICK OK TO FINISH Tick OK to finish Set to THROUGH ALL Click OK to accept 6. CHANGE VIEW TO ISOMETRIC / DISPLAY TO SHADED the result is below 7 View in WIREFRAME to see gas chamber and bottom groove COMPLETED THE FCLASS BLOCK! SAVE YOUR WORK / start a new drawing and try repeating everything you have done so far.without looking at your tutorial pages! NEXT TUTORIAL?...Tutorial 4 - Designing an F Car in SolidWorks D. Sankey 00 Page 0