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ME 210: Mechanical Engineering Drawing & Graphics

Lab Exercise 07:

Module 07: Assembly Drawing

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Module 07: Assembly Drawing

Module 07a: Create 3-D Big Bush, Small Bush and Ring

Objectives:
 To create 3-D big bush and small bush for housing body assembly.

Procedure:
Create 3-D models for the big bush, small bush and ring given in Figure 7.1 to 7.3. Make detail
working drawings of these models (by yourself at any time. Use h6 shaft tolerance and fit (press)
for Ø48, Ø30 big bush and Ø16 small bush. (Dimensions are in mm.) Save your work as
Big Bush.sldprt, Small Bush.sldprt and Ring.sldprt, respectively.

Figure 7.1: Big bush

Figure 7.2: Small bush

Figure 7.3: Ring

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Module 07b: Assembling Housing Parts

Objectives
 To create assembly file.
 To assemble housing parts.

Procedure:
1. Open the Housing Body, Big Bush, Small Bush and Ring model files.

2. Click New then on Tutorial tab window select to open an Assembly File then click OK.
See Figure 7.4. The Begin Assembly PropertyManager opens. Close this property manager.

Figure 7.4: New Assembly File

3. On Assembly Toolbar click Insert Components the Insert Component PropertyManager

opens. In Open documents window four part file – Big Bush, Housing Body, Ring and Small
Bush appeared. Click on Housing Body and drag your mouse to the working window
(Graphics area) and place the mouse cursor in suitable position then release the mouse button.
The Housing Body model will be inserted. See Figure 7.5.
4. Now again on Assembly Toolbar click Insert Components. Click on Big Bush and drag the
mouse to the working window and place the model upper left of the Housing Body model.

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Figure 7.5: Inserting Housing Body model

5. Similarly insert the Ring below the Big Bush and Small Bush lower left of Housing body.
6. Save your work as Housing Body Assembly.sldasm. See Figure 7.6.
Notice that the file extension is now (*.sldasm) indicating an assembly file. You no longer
need the part files, but it is useful to keep them open.

Figure 7.6: All models inserted

Now you need to assemble (mate) all four parts together. First you will assemble Big Bush
and Ring, then this assembly with Housing Body and finally this assembly with Small Bush.
To assemble two parts you need at least two matting constraints.

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7. Click Mate on the Assembly Toolbar. The Mate PropertyManager opens. See Figure 7.7.

Figure 7.7: Mate property manager

8. Select the bottom face of Big Bush Head (by rotating you can see this) and top face of the
Ring. These will appear in Mate Selections box. Select Coincident constraint (if not) in

Standard Mates area. See Figure 7.8. Click to accept this matting. Notice the property
manager still appears.

Figure 7.8: Coincident mate

9. Now you need to place the Ring in actual position (in neck of Big Bush). Select the neck face
of Big Bush and inner face of Ring. Select Concentric constraint (if not) in Standard

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Mates area. Click to accept this matting. Notice the property manager still appears. Click

again to end the Mate command. Coincident1 and Concentric1 are added to Mates in
FeatureManager Design Tree. See Figure 7.9.

Figure 7.9: Matting of Big Bush and Ring

10. Click Mate on the Assembly Toolbar. The Mate PropertyManager opens. Select top face
of Housing Body and top face of Big Bush. These will appear in Mate Selections box. Select

Coincident constraint (if not) in Standard Mates area. Click to accept this matting.
Notice the property manager still appears.
11. Now Select the inner face of vertical hole of Housing Body and outer face of lower part of

Big Bush. Select Concentric constraint (if not) in Standard Mates area. Click to accept

this matting. Notice the property manager still appears. Click again to end the Mate
command. Coincident2 and Concentric2 are added to Mates in FeatureManager Design Tree.
See Figure 7.10.

Figure 7.10: Matting of Housing Body and Big Bush

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12. Click Mate on the Assembly Toolbar. The Mate PropertyManager opens. Select inner hole
(small bush) of Housing Body and outer face of Small Bush. These will appear in Mate
Selections box. Select Concentric constraint (if not) in Standard Mates area. See

Figure 7.11. Click to accept this matting. Notice the property manager still appears.

Figure 7.11: Concentric mate

13. Now Select the outer face of small bush of Housing Body and right face of the Small Bush.

Select Coincident constraint (if not) in Standard Mates area. Click to accept this

matting. Notice the property manager still appears. Click again to end the Mate
command. Concentric3 and Coincident3 are added to Mates in FeatureManager Design Tree.
The completed assembly is shown in Figure 7.12. Save your work.

Figure 7.12: Completed assembly

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Module 07c: Assembly Drawing with Bill of Material

Objectives
 To create multiview of the housing body assembly.
 To add bill of material (BOM).

Procedure:

1. With the Housing Body Assembly file opened click New and select ME 210_A4_Draw

or draw from the Tutorial tab window. See Figure 7.13. Notice that a
preview of a standard drawing border is shown. Click OK.

Figure 7.13: New ME 210_A4 drawing document

2. Save as Housing Body Assembly Drawing BOM (file extension slddrw).

3. If you use ME 210_A4_Draw you do not need to change anything. If you use draw you can
change the sheet size of A3/A4-Landscape or any other. In this course ME 210_A4_Draw
will be used now and later. For 2nd case change by yourself at your convenient time.
4. Fill the title block. See Figure 7.14.

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Figure 7.14: Drawing sheet

5. Insert three standard views from Hosing Body Assembly file in appropriate position. Use
scale 1:1.5. Give the dimensions. Show hidden lines, remove tangent edges, add center mark
and center lines. Add the broken out sections. See Figure 7.15. (Recall your mind about
exercise 05 & 06.) Save your work.
6. Create a Dimension Layer and put all dimensions in this layer. See Figure 7.15.

Figure 7.15: Assembly drawing

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7. You can edit the cross hatch pattern for the bushes by clicking the hatch area. (Bronze, do by
yourself).

8. Rebuild the drawing and Save !

9. You are now ready to build and insert the Bill of Materials (BOM). On Annotation Toolbar
click Tables then select Bill of Materials. Or click Insert>Tables>Bill of Materials. The
Bill of Materials PropertyManager shows the following message

Select the front view and then click . The Bill of Materials will be attached with the
cursor. Place the Bill of Materials at the upper right corner of the sheet. See Figure 7.16.
Create a Bill of Materials layer and put the Bill of Materials to it.

Figure 7.16: Inserting Bill of Materials

10. You need to edit the contents of Bill of Materials table.

 In cell A1 delete ITEM NO. and replace it with Part No. (Double click in cell A1)
 In cell B1 delete PART NUMBER and replace it with Description.
 In cell C1 delete DESCRIPTION and replace it with Material.
 In cell C2 enter Cast Iron. (A message window appears, click Keep Link)
 In cells C3, C4 &C4 enter Ph. Bronze.
See Figure 7.17. Save your work!

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Figure 7.17: Edited Bill of Materials

11. You may also change the font, re-size the text and so on. Select Book Antiqua with a font
size of 14.
12. You now add Balloon References to the drawing. On Annotation Toolbar click Balloon or
click Insert>Annotations>Balloon. The Balloon PropertyManager opens. See
Figure 7.18. Notice a circular balloon is attached with the cursor.

Figure 7.18: Balloon property manager

13. In Settings area select Circular Split Line in Balloon Style box. Notice now a circular
balloon with split line is attached with the cursor.
14. Now left click the Housing Body component in the front view.

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A balloon attaches itself to the part. The number above the split line corresponds to the part
no. and the number below the split line corresponds to the quantity listed in the Bill of
Materials.

15. Add Balloons to the other three parts then click . To move the balloon or its leader arrow,
select and drag by the green handles.
16. Create a Balloons Layer and put all balloons in this layer.
17. The Lines Font may need to be changed from the default. Do the following changes from the
Options.
i. Visible Edges……… Style: Solid Thickness: 0.35mm
ii. Hidden Edges……... Style: Dashed Thickness: 0.25mm
iii. Dimensions………… Style: Solid Thickness: 0.18mm
iv. Area Hatch/Fill……Style: Solid Thickness: 0.18mm

See Figure 7.19 for complete assembly drawing.

Figure 7.19: Complete assembly drawing

18. Save your work!!!

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Name: _______________________________ ID: _________________ Date: _____________

Lesson Learned:

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