Week 7 Challenge - Assembly Workbench
PROCEDURE:
- EACH PARTS ARE FIRST CREATED USING THE PART DESIGN WORKBENCH (OR THE GENERATIVE SHAPE DESIGN; DESIGNER'S DISCRETION)
- ALL THE SKETCHES ARE NAMED PROPERLY AND CREATED IN A SYSTEMCATIC WAY IN THE GEOMETRICAL SETS. ALL SKETCHES ARE CONTAINED IN THEM
- ALL THE SKETCHES ARE CHECKED TO BE ISO-CONSTRAINED
- THE SKETCH IS THEN CONVERTED INTO A SOLID BODY USING PAD OR MULTI-PAD(CASE-DEPENDENT).
- FOR EASE OF ACCESSIBILITY, EACH PART FEATURE IS MODELED SEPARATELY AND THEN USING BOOLEAN OPERATIONS(ASSEMBLE, ADD, UNION TRIM, ETC.), ARE CONVERTED INTO A SINGLE PART BODY
- AT THIS STEP, BASED ON THE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF THE ASSEMBLY, THE REFERENCE FEATURES CAN BE PUBLISHED BEFOREHAND OR THE SAME CAN BE DONE WITHIN THE ASSEMBLY DESIGN WORKBENCH
- ONCE ALL THE PARTS ARE CREATED AND SAVED AS .CATPART FILES, OPEN EACH IN THE ASSEMBLY DEISGN WORKBENCH USING "EXISTING COMPONENT FEATURE" OPTION
- FOR SIMPLISTIC PURPOSE, CREATE A SKELETON REFERENCE (FIXED SUPPORT) AS A NEW PART INSIDE THE ASSEMBLY
- START DEFINING THE CONSTRAINTS BETWEEN EACH PARTS USING THE REFERENCE ELEMENTS USING THE "CONSTRAINTS" TOOLBAR STARING WITH ONE BETWEEN A PART AND THE SKELETON REFERENCE.
- FOR EASE OF VISUALISATION, KEEP MOVING THE PARTS USING "MANIPULATION" OPTION IN THE "MOVE" TOOLBAR
- ONCE THE ENTIRE ASSEMBLY IS CREATED, SAVE IT AS A .CATPRODUCT FILE
- THE DRAFTING FOR EACH PART AND THE ASSEMBLY IS CARRIED OUT AND SAVED AS A .DRAWING FILE
QUICK RETURN MECHANISM:
BODY 1
BODY 2
BODY 3
BODY 4
BODY 5
ASSEMBLY
CV JOINT
BODY 1
BODY 2
BODY 3
ASSEMBLY
