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CH03 - Sketching Geometry

Chapter 3 covers advanced sketching tools, including creating complex shapes, using editing tools like Trim and Extend, and managing constraints in 2D sketches. It also discusses advanced dimensioning techniques and customization of constraint settings to enhance design intent. The chapter concludes with practice exercises to apply the learned concepts.

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CH03 - Sketching Geometry

Chapter 3 covers advanced sketching tools, including creating complex shapes, using editing tools like Trim and Extend, and managing constraints in 2D sketches. It also discusses advanced dimensioning techniques and customization of constraint settings to enhance design intent. The chapter concludes with practice exercises to apply the learned concepts.

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Chapter 3: Additional Sketching Tools

✓ Create splines and advanced rectangle, circle, and slot shaped entities in 2D sketches.
✓ Use the Trim, Extend, and Mirror editing tools that are available in a sketch to edit and modify
sketched entities.
✓ Display the current degrees of freedom in a 2D sketch.
✓ Add and modify constraints in a 2D sketch to capture the required design intent.
✓ Customize constraint settings in a 2D sketch.
✓ Assign dimensions to a 2D sketch using advanced dimensioning techniques.
Advanced Sketched Entities
• Many entity types are available in the Create panel and the expanded drop-down lists.

The most recently selected


entity displays at the top of
each drop-down list.

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Advanced Sketched Entities
Tangent or perpendicular arcs using a line:
1. Press and hold the left mouse button and drag.

Line tangent to two circles/arcs:


1. Click and hold the mouse button on one of the two circles.
2. Hold and drag to the next circle so that the tangent constraint is visible.
3. Release the mouse button to locate the tangent line.

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Advanced Sketched Entities
Sketched Fillets and Chamfers
• In the Create panel, click (Fillet) or (Chamfer).

Fillets
Ensures that all fillets or
chamfers are driven by Chamfer
the initial dimension.
Chamfer dimension types

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Advanced Sketched Entities
Snap Points
• Use Point Snaps in the context menu to locate entities in a sketch.

Construction Entities
• Click in the Format panel and select an entity.
• Used as a reference.
• Do not create solid geometry.
• Project as construction entities by pressing and
holding <Shift> and selecting (yellow dashed lines).

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Basic Sketch Editing Tools
Trim
• Removes the segment to the nearest intersection in each direction from the selected point.

Portion under cursor

• If intersections occur in both directions, the center of the object can be removed.

Center portion removed

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Basic Sketch Editing Tools
Extend
• Extend continues an object to meet the next object in its path or to close an open sketch.

Select this line


to extend.

Dynamic Trimming and Extending


• Initiate the Trim command and drag the trimming line over entities to trim simultaneously.
• Initiate the Extend command and drag the extending line over entities to extend simultaneously.

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Basic Sketch Editing Tools
Mirror
• Mirrors selected entities about a mirror line. Mirror line

• The mirror line can be:


• Part of the geometry that is selected to mirror
• Projected origin feature
• Projected model edge
• Straight sketched or construction lines

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Adding and Modifying Sketch Constraints
• Constraints are applied when sketching or you can assign your own.
• To display constraints:
• Select a sketch entity to temporarily show constraints.
• Click in the Status Bar to show all constraints and to hide them.
• Press <F8> to display all constraints and <F9> to hide them.
• In the Constrain panel, click (Show Constraints) and select the entities.
• Click in the Status Bar to show DOF.
• To assign constraints, select the required constraint icon and select entities to constrain.

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Adding and Modifying Sketch Constraints

Parallel and Perpendicular Coincident Tangent

Concentric Collinear

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Adding and Modifying Sketch Constraints

Smooth (G2)

Horizontal and Vertical

Equal

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Adding and Modifying Sketch Constraints

Fix

Symmetric

It is not possible to over-constrain a sketch.

Reference constraints are


added to projected origin
planes (or geometry).

Reference

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Adding and Modifying Sketch Constraints
Constraint Settings
• Enables you to customize how constraints are inferred and displayed.

Constraint Inference Scope


• Sets the scope of the geometry that is used to infer constraints for new geometry.

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Adding and Modifying Sketch Constraints
Deleting Constraints
• Constraints are deleted using the constraint symbols.
• For a coincident constraint, hover over the yellow square icon, right-click, and select .

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Adding and Modifying Sketch Constraints
Relax Mode
• Relax Mode enables you to make changes to the
geometry and apply new constraints that would require
deleting constraints.
• In the Status Bar, click .
• In the Constrain panel, click .

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Advanced Dimensioning Techniques
• In the Constrain panel, click (Dimension) to place dimensions.
• Reminders:
• (Automatic Dimensions)
• You can also review the bottom-right corner of the Status Bar for remaining dimensions/constraints.
• First dimension in sketch determines the scale.

Linear dimensions
were discussed in a
previous chapter. They
are covered here again
for review.

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Advanced Dimensioning Techniques
• Center Dimensions • Radius/Diameter Dimensions

• Angular Dimensions

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Advanced Dimensioning Techniques
• Tangent Dimensions • Revolved Sketch Dimensions
• Select the centerline of the revolved cross-section
and the geometry, right-click, and select
Linear Diameter.

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Advanced Dimensioning Techniques
Arc Length Dimensions
• Select the arc, right-click, select Dimension Type>Arc Length, and then place the dimension.

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Advanced Dimensioning Techniques
• For Imperial templates, you can change the dimension style from Decimal to Fractional or Architectural.
• Prompt appears if a dimension is added that will over-dimension the sketch.
• Dimension can be added as a driven dimension.

Driven dimension

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Practices
Practice 3a: Apply Constraints
Practice 3b: Create Sketched Geometry I
Practice 3c: Create Sketched Geometry II
Practice 3d: Create Sketched Geometry III
Practice 3d: (Optional) Manipulate Entities

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