Background to this tutorial
If you click the Model-Editor tab, after completing Tutorials 1 and 2, you do not see any . Tutorials 1 and 2 add Parts and Joints. These elements are not Solids. The Part and Joint elements are symbolic, and only for kinematic analysis.
We can add Solids elements to a model in MechDesigner in two ways:
| • | Add a Profile/Extrusion element to a sketch-loop |
| • | Import Part and Assembly documents from SOLIDWORKS or STL files from other CAD. |
Objectives of Tutorial 3
| 1. | Repeat Tutorial 1, to become more confident with the tools you need to use to add a 'Rotating Part'. |
| 2. | Add sketch-elements to a Part so that the sketch-elements become a sketch-loop. |
Key Learnings of Tutorial-3
What is the Part-Outline?
| • | The Part-Outline is the symbolic oval shape that is around each added Part, and the symbolic rectangular shape that is around the Base-Part. |
What is a sketch-loop?
| • | A sketch-loop is a series of sketch-elements - usually Lines and Arcs - joined end-to-end. |
| • | The Points, that are at the end of each Line or Arc are merged together to make one Point from the two available Points. |
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