Thursday, April 7, 2011

Shell Tray

In this activity I used the shell function. This function will allow me to remove the unnecessary mass from a feature. The resulting geometry will have a wall thickness. I rotated the object so that it's underside was visible. Then I used the shell function to pocket out the material on the bottom side of the object. 

Rectangular Pattern Along A Path

Just like in the previous activity I used the rectangular pattern function for this one. I used the function to copy the existing rectangular extrusions 13 times along the curved path of the base feature.

Rectangular Pattern

In this activity I used the rectangular pattern. This function allows the user to make copies of an existing feature in one direction or two directions together. I used the rectangular pattern function to copy the existing cylindrical extrusion six times horizontally and four times vertically.

Circular Pattern

In this activity I used the circular pattern. The pattern function allows the user to make multiple copies of an existing feature in one of three different ways. The circular pattern is also used to array a hole around a center axis. In this case I used the circular pattern to copy the existing hole on the circular plate a total of 10 times.

Loft

In this activity I used the loft function on a original sketch provided. The loft function allows the user to create a solid or surface by blending two or more shapes that are located on different planes. In this case i used the loft function to blend three different profiles into one solid object.

Drilled Holes

In this activity we used the hole function on the original sketch. With the hole function we drilled a counterbore, countersink, threaded hole, and clearance hole. I used different measurments and different taper degrees for each hole that was drilled.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Revolve

In this project we opened a file called. The revolve is a function that allows the user to extrude a closed profile around a fixed axis up to 360 degrees. We used that function in order to revolve the sketch around 360 degrees