Solidworks tutorial

Assembly project

Author :
M.Ghasemi

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You will create this container during the tutorial :

In this tutorial I assume that you know the basic of solidworks and you should know how to interactively work with the
software . this means that you should know how to open a sketch , define a plane and … . if you don’t know the basics I
recommend you to visit the solidworks beginner tutorials first.
If you had any questions don’t hesitate and ask me . I always will be there for you .now go ahead and start designing
with me my friend .

In this tutorial first we create our parts then we assemble them . this is called bottom-top assembly . just do exactly as I
say and enjoy .
First make a specific folder in your hard drive to save the parts . start designing of the first part :

Part1 :
We are going to model a pneumatic cylinder as our first part . open a sketch on front plane and draw a square :

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Extrude it :

Open another sketch on the front face of the part and draw these circles :

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Cut them :

We need these holes on the opposite side too so mirror them .

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Create a support for the cylinder rod .open a sketch on the front face of the part and sketch this circle :

Now extrude it like following picture .

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And now create the rod . sketch a circle and extrude it .

The cylinder is done . save it and open a new part .

Part2
This part is designed to hold the cylinder in steady position . open a new sketch on front plane and draw the rectangle :

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Extrude it :

Open a new sketch on the front face of the part and create this rectangle :

Extrude it again :

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This part is under some stress by the force of cylinder so let’s make a rib for it . sketch this line on the right plane :

Click on the “rib” in the features toolbar and create the rib from the sketch :

Create the holes for the screws . cut these circles :

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Save the part2 and go for the next part .

Part3
Open a sketch on front plane and draw :

Extrude the sketch :

Define a new plane for our new sketch .

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Sketch a square on this plane :

Extrude the square :

Select this face and sketch the circle :

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Cut the circle .

select the face shown below and draw the sketch :

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And now cut the sketch again .

Now fillet the front face of the part :

Part3 is done now .lets go for the last part .

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Part4
Open a sketch on front plane and draw this rectangle :

Extrude the rectangle :

Open another sketch on the right plane and create the following sketch .

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Extrude the new sketch :

Now fillet the sharp edges just like following picture .

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Sketch this circle on the previous extrude to cut a hole :

Cut the circle :

The part4 is completed . save it . we are going to create our assembly of these parts now .

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Assembly

Open a new assembly document . the “begin assembly” window appears on the left :

Click on “browse” and reach for the pat1 on your hard drive and open it . the part is in graphic area now and its waiting
for your click to be inserted to the assembly so click on the graphic area . the cylinder is inserted to the assembly now .
since it is your first part of the assembly ,it’s fixed on the inserting point . the letter ‘f’ before the name of the part1 in
feature manager design tree indicates that .

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Now insert the next part . from the assembly tab click on the “insert component “ button . “insert component “ window
appears . reach for the part2 by clicking on “browse” button and open it . click somewhere in graphic area to insert part2

Now we should take part2 to it’s right place . we use “mate” for this purpose . click on mate in the assembly toolbar .
mate window appears on the left . select these two holes on the picture and pick the “concentric” then click ok .

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Do the same process for the other hole of the part2 :

Now stick part2 to the part1 .select the faces shown below then select coincident mate:

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Click ok and close the mate .

Insert another part2 again :

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Mate this new part just like the first one but this time on rear face of the part1 . see the picture :

Now insert the part3 into the assembly . the inserting process is just like the previous ones .

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Click on the mate . select these two surfaces and click on concentric :

Create a distance between part3 and part1 . click on the mate and select these two faces :

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Now set the distance on mate window :

What about the rotation of the part3 ?! we should fix it so make these faces parallel :

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Ok…insert the last part now . once again go for insert > component > existing part/assembley and insert the part4 into
the assembly .

Click on mate and make these holes concentric :

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Select these two faces and create a 3mm distance between them :

Click ok and save your work . see your assembly in isometric view :

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assign some colors to your parts to make your assembly look better:

Some times when an assembly is so complicated it’s better to make an exploded view of the parts included . our
assembly here is not complicated but just for the sake of practice we are going to make an exploded view .
Go to the insert > exploded view and click on it . the explode window appears on the left .

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Do you See that yellow box?!? All you have to do is mentioned there so select the first component just like below and
drag it backward along the blue axis . release it wherever you feel comfortable :

“explode step1” appears under the explode window . do this for the rest of the parts :

Click ok. Now you have exploded view of all the parts included in the assembly . if you want to have your assembly back ,
just undo the changes .

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Now you have done it .

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M.Ghasemi

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