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Exercise 1: Trimming Surfaces: Move/Copy Bodies Which Was Covered Trim Surface Knit Surface

The document provides instructions for two exercises involving trimming and knitting surfaces in SOLIDWORKS. Exercise 1 involves rotating and copying surfaces, then trimming them using the mutual trim type to create a solid part. Exercise 2 starts with a surface model and uses trim and knit surfaces, planar surfaces created with curves through reference points, and a shell to make the bottom faces planar when thickening. Both exercises reinforce skills like move/copy bodies, trim surface, knit surface, and creating solid models from surfaces.

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Exercise 1: Trimming Surfaces: Move/Copy Bodies Which Was Covered Trim Surface Knit Surface

The document provides instructions for two exercises involving trimming and knitting surfaces in SOLIDWORKS. Exercise 1 involves rotating and copying surfaces, then trimming them using the mutual trim type to create a solid part. Exercise 2 starts with a surface model and uses trim and knit surfaces, planar surfaces created with curves through reference points, and a shell to make the bottom faces planar when thickening. Both exercises reinforce skills like move/copy bodies, trim surface, knit surface, and creating solid models from surfaces.

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SOLIDWORKS Exercise 1

Trimming Surfaces

Exercise 1: Create this part by following the steps as


Trimming shown.
Surfaces This lab reinforces the following skills:
 Move/Copy Bodies which was covered
in the Advanced Part Modeling course
 Trim Surface
 Knit Surface
Units: millimeters
1 Open a part file.
Open Trim_Exercise.SLDPRT.
2 Create an axis.
Create a reference axis from the two corners of the
surface nearest the Top reference plane.
Make sure it is named Axis1.

3 Rotate the surface body.


Click Move/Copy Body to rotate (not
copy) the body 35° about Axis1 as shown.
Tip Depending on the order in which you selected
the vertices to define the axis, you may need
to enter the rotation angle as a negative value
to get the surface to rotate in the correct move
direction. here

4 Create another axis.


Create another reference axis using the intersection of the Front and
the Right reference planes.
This should be named Axis2.

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Trimming Surfaces

5 Copy surface bodies.


Click Move/Copy Body to rotate and
copy the surface body about Axis2,
making two copies each at an angle of
120°.

copies

6 Create a new sketch. Front Plane


Change to a Right view.
On the Right reference plane,
open a sketch and insert a sketch
point.
Dimension the point to the Front
and Top reference planes as
shown.
Exit the sketch. Top Plane
7 Create another axis.
Create another reference axis using the sketch point and the Right
reference plane.
This should be named Axis3.
8 Copy the surface body.
Rotate and copy the original surface
body 136° about Axis3.

copy

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9 Trim the surfaces.


Click Trim Surface .
For Trim Type, select Mutual.
In the Selections, Surfaces box select all 4 surface bodies.
Click Keep selections and select the faces to yield the results shown
below. This should require 4 faces to be selected.
Click Create Solid.

Note The trimming operation automatically knits the surfaces into a single
surface body. Checking the Create Solid will form a solid body from
the created surface body.
10 Save and close the file.

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Exercise 2 SOLIDWORKS
Trimming and Knitting

Exercise 2: Starting with a surface model, create the


Trimming and solid model as shown.
Knitting This lab reinforces the following skills:
 Planar Surface
 Trim Surface
 Knit Surface
Units: millimeters
1 Open a part file.
Open Surface_Model.sldprt.
This part is made up of 3 separate
surface bodies.

2 Trim Surfaces.
Click Trim Surface .
For Trim Type, select Mutual.
In the Selections, Surfaces box
select the 2 intersecting surface
bodies.
Click Keep selections and select the
faces indicated.
3 Knit surfaces.
Click Knit Surface .
Knit the surface body at the top with the trimmed surface body.
4 Add fillets.
Add 2.5mm radius fillets to the edges
indicated.

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Trimming and Knitting

5 Thicken.
Use the Thicken feature to add a
1.5mm wall thickness.

6 Evaluate the model.


Switch to a Front view of the model and
evaluate the bottom faces of the part.
It is apparent from this view that the
bottom faces are not planar. This may be
acceptable for some designs, but for this
part, we will look at an alternate
technique.

7 Delete features.
Delete the last 3 features of the part: Surface-Knt1, Fillet1, and
Thicken1.

Alternate When adding a Thicken feature, faces in the part are offset. When
Technique faces are curved, this offsetting operation can cause results like we see
in this example. To ensure the bottom faces of this part are planar and
the correct wall thickness, another technique that can be used to create
the part as a solid then add a Shell feature.
To make this model into a solid that can be shelled, additional planar
surfaces are needed to close the open areas and make this an enclosed
volume. To create the Planar Surface features, we will create
boundaries at both ends of the cylindrical surface using the Curve
Through Reference Points command.
Introducing: Curve Curve Through Reference Points creates a curve feature through
Through Reference selected sketch points, vertices, or both.
Points
Where to Find It  CommandManager: Features > Curves >
Curve Through Reference Points
 Menu: Insert, Curve, Curve Through Reference Points

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Trimming and Knitting

8 Create planar surface boundaries.


Click Curve Through Reference
Points .
Select vertices from the cylindrical
surface to create the curve as shown.
9 Repeat.
Create another Curve Through
Reference Points on the opposite
side of the surface.
10 Create Planar Surfaces.
Use the Planar Surface command to create the 3 surfaces
necessary to form an enclosed volume.

11 Hide the Curve features.

12 Knit and create solid.


Use the Knit Surface feature with
the Create solid option to create a solid
body.

13 Fillets and shell.


Add 2.5mm radius fillets and a 1.5mm
thickness shell.

14 Evaluate the part.


Switch to a Front view.
The bottom faces of the part are now planar.
15 Save and close all files.

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