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Progressive Education Society's

Modern College of Engineering


Department of Mechanical Engineering

SE. Mechanical Engineering- 2019 pattern


Solid Modeling and Drafting
Practical No 2.- Solid and Surface Modeling

Name:____________________________________________
Roll Number:_______________________________________
Division:__________________________________________
Exam Seat No.:_____________________________________
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Features are the individual shapes that, when combined, make up the part. You
can also add some types of features to assemblies.

Features include multibody part capability. You can include separate extrude,
revolve, loft, or sweep features, within the same part document.

Some features originate as sketches; other features, such as shells or fillets, are
created when you select the appropriate tool or menu command and define the
dimensions or characteristics that you want. You can use the same sketch to
create different features.

Surfaces are another type of feature. You can use surfaces to create or modify
solid features.

Solidworks Features Toolbar-

The Features toolbar provides tools for creating model features.

Extruded Boss/Base Shell Circular Pattern


Revolved Boss/Base
Draft Mirror Feature
Sweep
Move Face Curve Driven Pattern
Loft
Simple Hole Sketch Driven Pattern
Boundary Boss/Base
Hole Wizard Table Driven Pattern
Thicken
Hole Series Fill Pattern
Extruded Cut Split
Dome
Revolved Cut Freeform Combine
Swept Cut
Deform Join
Lofted Cut
Indent Delete Solid/Surface
Boundary Cut
Flex Heal Edges
Thickened Cut
Wrap Imported Geometry
Cut with Surface
Instant3D Insert Part
Fillet Suppress Move/Copy Bodies
Chamfer
Unsuppress
Rib Unsuppress with
Dependents
Scale
Linear Pattern
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Geometrical modelling is a general term applied to three-dimensional computer-
aided design techniques. There are three main types of geometrical modelling
used, namely: line or wireframe modelling, surface modelling and solid
modelling. Each have their own particular applications in the design of
engineering components which is dependent on the ability of the method to
model certain geometric structures effectively and generate the correct data for
analysis. The usefulness of the model in the design process depends on whether
it is a line, surface or solid model or in fact any combination of the three. Each
method has its own capabilities in allowing the designer to visualize and analyse
the model but all should interface to 2D drafting so that a working engineering
drawing of a 3D model can be generated.

A wire frame representation is a 3-D line drawing of an object showing only the
edges without any side surface in between. The image of the object, as the name
applies has the appearance of a frame constructed from thin wires representing
the edges and projected lines and curves if required. The main disadvantage of
this wire frame representation is that the hidden detail lines are shown and the
resulting drawing is a maze of lines, which can be very confusing and
disorientating.

3-D solid modelling- Some CAD systems are capable of producing the
complete solid models of the objects in colour, displaying full surfaces with the
light, highlights and shadows, thus accomplishing very realistic images.

2.5-D type of figures are wire frame representations, where the original 2-D
shape can be translated or rotated into a 3-D shape

Wire frame Solid model 2.5-type model


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Surface modelling is more sophisticated than wire frame representation, but is
cheaper to run than solid modelling. Initially the wire frame is created and the
gaps between all individual frames are then filled in by flat or rounded surfaces.
This model can be easily modified and colour shaded, if required.

Surface models define the surface features, as well as the edges, of objects.
Different types of spline curves are used to create surface patches with different
modeling characteristics. For example, the advantage of Bezier surface patches
is that they are easy-to-sculpt natural surfaces. The control points are an
intuitive tool with which the user can work. In contrast, B-spline patches allow
local control; moving one control point does not affect the whole surface.

With B-splines, it is much easier to create surfaces through predefined points or


curves. NURBS surfaces use rational B-splines, which include a weighting
value at each point on the surface. The weighting value allows some points to
have more influence over the shape of the curve than other points. This means
that a wider variety of curved surfaces are possible than with regular B-splines.
Because NURBS surfaces can also precisely describe conic surfaces, they are
gaining popularity in many tasks previously handled by other types of 3-D
modelers.

Solid Modeling

There are two types of solid modelling methods used in modern CAD systems:
boundary representation (B-Rep) and constructive solids geometry (CSG). With
the B-Rep method a shape or profile is defined and then either a solid of
revolution is produced about a given axis or the shape is extruded in a given
direction.

Constructive solids geometry modellers provide a range of solid primitives such


as spheres, cylinders, cuboids, wedges, etc., which can be defined at any size,
position and orientation
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