MAD’ About Designs – Rohan Ghosh

Set Units = Centimeters

Create a New Component Named Base

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1. Create New Sketch
2. Select Front Plane
3. Sketch drawing
4. Finish Sketch
5. Press E for extrude
6. Set Direction to Symmetric
7. Select coplanar closed sketch profiles or faces to extrude
8. Extrude main part of base 3 cm

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1. Press E for extrude
2. Extrude middle section 42 cm
   • Operation : Join
3. Press E for extrude
4. Select two smaller squares by clicking and holding down the mouse button
   • Operation: Cut

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1. Press F for fillet
2. Select 9 edges
3. Fillet .5 cm

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Create Side Peg

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Create a New Component Named Link 1

• Right mouse click on main Assembly
• Create New Component – Link 1

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1. Create New Sketch and select side of base
2. Press P for project
3. Select circular edge of peg geometry and project to sketch
4. Create 2 – point rectangle
5. Change Feature Options to 3 – Point Rectangle
6. Draw Sketch
7. Finish Sketch

1. Press E for extrude
2. Select two profiles that make up the face of side
3. Extrude 1 cm

1. Make previous sketch visible
2. Select circle from previous sketch
3. Press E for extrude
4. Extrude peg 2 cm
5. Press F for fillet
6. Fillet edges 1.5 cm

Create a New Component Named Link 2

1. Right mouse click on main Assembly
2. Create New Component named Link 2

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1. Create New Sketch
2. Select side face of Link 1
3. Press P for Project
4. Project the top hole geometry to the sketch
5. Create 2 – point rectangle
6. Draw Sketch rectangle – 3 cm x 30cm
7. Press D for dimension
8. Center peg 1.5 cm
9. Finish Sketch

1. Press E for extrude
2. Select the 3 profile areas that make up the face of link 2
3. Extrude 1cm
4. Press F for Fillet
5. Fillet four corners 1.5 cm

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1. Press H for hole
2. Select face of link 2
3. Set Hole diameter to 1.5 cm
4. Select reference and click on circular edge
5. Set Shape Settings
   • Extents = All
   • Hole Type = Simple
   • Hole Tap Type = Simple
   • Drill Point = Flat

Create a New Component Named Slider

1. Right mouse click on main Assembly
2. Create New Component named Slider

1. Create new Sketch
2. Select front face of base
3. Press P to project and select front face of base
4. Place first corner of rectangle tangent to circles on the left
5. Draw rectangle 4 cm wide x 5 cm tall
6. Finish Sketch

1. Press E for extrude
2. Select drawing and extrude -8 cm
3. Press F for fillet
4. Fillet edges .5 cm

1. Create New Sketch on side of slider
2. Center circle with diameter of 1.5 cm
3. Finish Sketch
4. Press E for extrude and extrude – 3 cm

Assemble Model With Joints

Right click on Base component and ground object

1. Under Assemble, select As-Built-Joint
2. Set Joint Type to Revolute
3. Select Link 1 for first component
4. Select the base for second component
5. Select a snap point to place the Joint Origin
6. Rotate should be set to Z Axis
7. Click Animate to preview joint motion

1. Right Mouse Click, select Repeat As-Built-Joint
2. Set Joint Type to Revolute
3. Select Link 2 for first component
4. Select the Link 1 for second component
5. Select a snap point to place the Joint Origin
6. Rotate should be set to Z Axis
7. Click Animate to preview joint motion

1. Under Assemble, select Joint
2. Capture Position
3. Set Joint Type to Revolute
4. Select Link 2 for component 1
5. Select the slider for component 2
6. Rotate should be set to Z Axis
7. Click Animate to preview joint motion

• Slider moves away from base
• Slider needs to be in place so move back one step in time line

1. Under Assemble, select As-Built-Joint
2. Set Joint Type to Slider
3. Select Slider for first component
4. Select the Base for second component
5. Select a snap point to place the Joint Origin
6. Slide should be set to Z Axis
7. Click Animate to preview joint motion

Move Slider forward in timeline

Open Joints in Browser and animate model !

• Press A for appearance
• Apply color to components