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Meem 4403 Cad Methods Lab Instructions TUTORIAL 1: Sketching and Basic Operations

This document provides lab instructions for tutorial 1 of the CAD Methods course. The objectives are to learn the basics of sketching, creating parts and assemblies, and manipulating the graphical display in Unigraphics. Students are asked to complete online tutorials on sketching, constraints, organizing parts and common tools. They must then create and email two constrained sketch part files by the due date with their username in the filename.

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Meem 4403 Cad Methods Lab Instructions TUTORIAL 1: Sketching and Basic Operations

This document provides lab instructions for tutorial 1 of the CAD Methods course. The objectives are to learn the basics of sketching, creating parts and assemblies, and manipulating the graphical display in Unigraphics. Students are asked to complete online tutorials on sketching, constraints, organizing parts and common tools. They must then create and email two constrained sketch part files by the due date with their username in the filename.

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MEEM 4403 CAD METHODS

LAB INSTRUCTIONS
TUTORIAL 1: Sketching and Basic Operations

Tutorial Objectives

• Learn about the components of the Unigraphics User Interface.


• Go through the basic steps to create a sketch, part, assembly and drawing.
• Learn to manipulate the graphical display with zoom, pan, and rotate functions.
• Learn to use layers and to change the display of an individual object.
• Practice 2-D sketching and constraining techniques.

Lab Tasks
Complete the online tutorial Design An Overview of NX.*

Complete the following parts of the online tutorial Design Sketcher:


Sketching in NX
The Basics
Working with Sketches
Dragging and Animating a Sketch
Finding an Alternate Solution

Complete the following parts of the online tutorial Design NX Essentials:


Organizing Parts
Displaying Parts
Common Tools

Deliverables
Email the following parts to [email protected] by May 11. Part file names must start
with your user name as shown in Table 1.

Table 1: Deliverables for Tutorial 1

Tutorial Part filename


Design Sketcher Constraining username_skt_constr_1.prt
Sketches – Exercises Practice #1 –
Constraining a U-Shape
Design Sketcher Constraining username_skt_constr_2.prt
Sketches – Exercises Practice #2 –
Constraining an Angled Part

*
(Note that tutorial parts are available on PC’s in the directory “C:\\Program Files\UGS\NX 3.0\ugcast
\parts\sketcher” and on Sun workstations in “/usr/arch/apps/ugs030/ugcast/parts/sketcher”.)

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