SeGuruCool
The Largest Independant Solid Edge Resource Outside UGS
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SeGuruCool The Largest Independant Solid Edge Resource Outside UGS |
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Part -1 www.oocities.org/SeGuruCool  segurucool @ indiatimes.com |
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In this tutorial you learn : It is assumed that you are familiar with the basics of Solid Edge Part modeling. |  |
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Drawing the profile - Front view Start with creating a sketch in the the x-z plane. Using the Curve  tool, create the outline of the goggle frame. You may not be able to close the curve. So create a straight line joining the two open ends of the curve. See the red circled area in figure besides. |  |
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Mirror the profile Keep the profile above the x-y plane. Mirror it as shown. |  |
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Another Curve in x-y plane Draw an arc in the x-y plane as shown in figure. Keep the arc symmetric about the y-z plane. Keep the arc well behind the mirrored frame curves drawn earlier. |  |
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Parallel Plane Create a plane parallel to the x-y plane. Keep the plane well above the top rim of the frame. See figure. |  |
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Included Sketch Sketch an arc on the new plane by using the Include  tool in the sketcher environment. |  |
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More Parallel Planes Create two more planes parallel to the y-z plane. The planes pass through the endpoints of the arc created in last step. |  |
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More Arcs Sketch arcs each on the two planes whose end points are well connected to the arcs in the horizontal planes. See figure. |  |
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The Overall View Overall the four arcs should nicely enclose both the goggle glasses curves. See figure. |  |
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The BlueSurf Click the BlueSurf  tool on the surfacing toolbar. Select the right-side vertical arc and click accept  on the ribbon bar. Then select the left-side vertical arc. Both - correct and incorrect - ways of picking the second arc are shown in figure. Pick in the correct way. |  |
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BlueSurf Appears Click accept and then Preview. A BlueSurf will be created as shown in figure. |  |
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Add a Guide Curve Still in the BlueSurf command, Click the Add Guide Curves  button on the ribbon bar. Select the arc as shown and click accept |  |
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Add Another Guide Curve Similarly, select the other arc as shown in figure. Click the accept Preview and Finish buttons in that order. |  |
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BlueSurf Created A BlueSurf, as shown in figure, is finally created . This surface spans the two smaller arcs and is guided by the two larger arcs. You could have build the BlueSurf the other way too, in that, the surface spans the two larger arcs and the two smaller arcs act as guide curves. This is more commonly done when building a BlueSurf using a set of curves - when the bluesurf fails in one way, it sometimes builds the other way. |  |
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Project Curve - Curve Step Make visible the two profiles for the goggle frame. Select the Project Curve  tool from the Surfacing toolbar. Select one of the profiles of the goggle frame as the curve to project. Click accept on the ribbon bar.
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Project Curve - Body Step Select the Bluesurf as the surface to project on. |  |
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Project Curve - Direction Step Point the arrow towards the Bluesurf and click. Click Finish on the ribbon bar. |  |
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Project Curve - View It Click the Visible and Hidden Edges  tool on the Main toolbar to see the projected curve. Similarly, project the other frame curve also. |  |
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Trim Surface - Surface Step Select the Trim Surface  tool from the Surfacing toolbar. Select the Bluesurf as the surface to trim. |  |
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Tushar Suradkar segurucool @ indiatimes.com |
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