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Windmill - Parallel Blend Option: Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0

This document provides instructions for creating a 3D model of a windmill blade in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0. The model is constructed in 8 steps: 1) Revolving a hub section, 2) Creating a datum plane, 3) Sketching and blending 3 blade sections using parallel blends, 4) Grouping the blade for patterned replication, 5) Patterning the blade group around the hub, 6) Adding a revolved cut to the hub, 7) Adding a center hole to the hub, and 8) Creating and patterning ribs on the hub to strengthen it. Dimensions and screenshots are provided to illustrate each step.

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Windmill - Parallel Blend Option: Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0

This document provides instructions for creating a 3D model of a windmill blade in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0. The model is constructed in 8 steps: 1) Revolving a hub section, 2) Creating a datum plane, 3) Sketching and blending 3 blade sections using parallel blends, 4) Grouping the blade for patterned replication, 5) Patterning the blade group around the hub, 6) Adding a revolved cut to the hub, 7) Adding a center hole to the hub, and 8) Creating and patterning ribs on the hub to strengthen it. Dimensions and screenshots are provided to illustrate each step.

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ME-430 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN

Windmill – Parallel Blend Option


Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0
Dr. Herli Surjanhata

Figure 1

Step 1:
Create revolve protrusion for the hub as shown in Figure 2 below. Note that the
location of center of the arc is in PRT_CSYS-DEF. Make sure you create a vertical
centerline as axis of revolution, and the diameter of the hub at the bottom is 14
inches.
Figure 2 Revolve section of the hub

Step 2:

Click the Create datum plane icon to create


a new datum plane DTM1 through axis A_2, and -
30º angle with FRONT datum plane.

Pick the A-2 axis, and while holding down Ctrl key,
pick FRONT datum plane.

Enter Value for rotation - 30°


Figure 3

Step 3:

From Insert pull down


menu, select Blend ->
Protrusion
For the Blend option, select Parallel -> Regular Sec ->
Sketch Sec -> Done.

Smooth blend is used to for blending the three sections of


the blade.
Smoth -> Done

Use DTM1 as sketching plane, and TOP datum plane as top reference. Pick the A_2
axis and TOP datum plane as the references.

Create THREE sections as shown in the Figures 4, 5 and 6.

Be sure to use to create points needed to locate the


centerlines and location of the center of the circular part of the
section.

Sketch the first section as shown in Figure 4. Click icon to continue, and from
Sketch pull-down menu, select Feature Tools -> Toggle section.

Continue with sketching the second section as shown in Figure 5, click icon to
continue, and from Sketch pull-down menu, select Feature Tools -> Toggle
section.

And finally sketch the third section as shown in Figure 6. When you are done,

click icon to continue, Blind -> Done.

Enter 17.5 inches for the depth


between sections.

Select OK button
Figure 4 – Section 1. Note that the arcs dimension is in diameter.
Figure 5 – Second Section shown in red
Figure 6 – The last section shown in red. Note that Section 1 is the largest, and
sketched in DTM1. Section 2 is the second largest and third section is smallest
representing the tip of the blade.
Step 4:

Create a group named blade for patterning.

From Edit pull down menu,


select

Feature Operations
Group -> Create -> Local Group

Enter group name: blade

Click the icon.

Continue with picking DTM1 and the first blade created in Step
3. The easy way to do is to select the features from the Model
Tree.

Done/Return -> Done


Step 5:

Pattern the local group


“blade” by selecting:

Click -> Pick the


Group BLADE from the
Model Tree.

Select Dimensions tab


to expand it.

Click 30° angle


between FRONT &
DTM1 for Direction 1.

Enter dimension
increment = 120
[Enter]

Enter TOTAL number of


instances in the
direction (including
original) = 3

Click on the .

The blade pattern is


created.

Save the part.

Step 6:

Create a revolved cut in the hub as shown below.


Figure 7 – The section for revolved cut.

The resulted cut is shown below:


Step 7:

Create a hole at the center of the post with the diameter of 2 inches and 8 inches
depth.
Step 8:

Create ribs to strengthen the post.

Click .

Select References -> Define.

Pick DTM1 as sketching plane, select Top as Reference, and Top Orientation will
be automatically selected.

Click Sketch.

Click to change the view to


hidden line.

Zoom in to the hub area.


Select references as shown below and click Close.

Pick these as references.

Draw a horizontal line as


shown.

Click .

Draw this line.


Enter 1 as the thickness of the rib.

Click .

The resulted rib is shown below:


Pattern the rib.

Select Rib1 in the Model Tree.

Pick .

Click .

Add keyway, rounds and chamfer as shown below – use your own dimensions:
Section for keyway, and depth of the
cut is 2 inches.
Save the model.

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