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Structure Design
Structure Design
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Structure Design
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Boring Fixture..............................................................................................................................................3 Step (1): Create a Grid.............................................................................................................................4 Step (2): Place Members..........................................................................................................................5 Step (3): Create Planar Elements...........................................................................................................16 Step (4): Create Joints...........................................................................................................................22 Step (5): Modify Your Design.................................................................................................................22
Structure Design
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Boring Fixture
The intent of the first part of this step-by-step exercises book is to let you practice the various ways of using the Structure Design workbench for designing jig, foundation or other tooling. The other part of the exercises book will enable you to enrich your tooling with using catalog parts and extract documents like BOMs or drawings.
Structure Design
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We will now place the grid. 5. Select the Grid icon 7. Click on OK. .
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Next we will place members (beams) using the grid as support. If you dont succeed in creating the grid in step1, open Boring_Fixture CATProduct stored in \Data_Student\Step2 directory. 1. Double-click on Member on Support Icon .
2. Select Other Section in Section: field as shown in the picture below. 3. Browse to open the EN catalog .
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6. Click on OK.
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7. Define the member to place as shown in the picture below 8. Place Beam_1 as shown below.
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12. Select a new section TUBEC180x10.0 in the EN catalog 13. Define infilling members as shown below.
14. Select Beam_3 as reference 1 and Beam_2 as reference 2 15. Click on OK.
Structure Design 16. Modify the definition of the other infill to be created as shown below.
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18. Define member as shown below. 19. Place Beam_6 as shown below using intersection points of the grid.
20. Place Beam_7 as shown below using intersection points of the grid.
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Structure Design 21. Place Beam_8 as shown below using intersection points of the grid.
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22. Define a new direction and a length value for the next two beams.
23. Place Beam_9 as shown below using intersection point of the grid as start point.
24. Place Beam_10 as shown below using intersection point of the grid as start point.
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25. Define member and direction. 26. Select the free extremity of the left vertical beam as shown below.
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Structure Design 28. Select Point on Member. 29. Select the vertical beam: TUBEC250x12.0.
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30. Key-in 1500 in the Offset field or slide the Offset handler. 31. Repeat on the right side with a Top Left anchor point. 32. Hide the grid.
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2. Select the support for the plates as shown in the picture below.
3. Key-in 20 for Thickness. 4. Select the Sketch icon 5. Select the Rectangle icon . .
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8. Click on Reverse Direction. 10. Repeat steps 42 to 50 on the right. We are now going to create gussets.
11. Select again the Plate icon 12. Select Gusset as type.
13. Select the support for the plates as shown in the picture below.
14. Select the Sketch icon 15. Select the Right View icon 16. Select the Profile icon
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We would like now instantiate both right and left gussets 4 times. To do that, as Structural plates are CATPart, we will use the Assembly Design workbench. 22. Activate Boring_Fixture. 23. Select the Assembly Design workbench icon. 24. Select the Define Multi Instantiation icon 25. Select the gusset in the Product tree. 26. Key-in 4 as New Instance(s). 27. Key-in 300 as Spacing. 28. Click on the Y Direction icon 30. Click on OK. 31. Repeat steps 60 to 66 on the right. in the Reference Direction frame. .
Return to Structure Design workbench. 32. Select the Structure Design workbench icon. 33. Select the Plate icon .
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34. Select the support for the plates as shown in the picture below. 35. Key-in 20 for Thickness. 36. Select the Sketch icon .
38. Sketch the plate as shown in the picture. 39. Select the Exit icon 41. Click on OK. 42. Repeat steps 70 to 77 for the two last plates. .
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And to finish with plates, we will place now the two end plates on top of the vertical beams.
43. Double-click on the End Plate icon 44. Key-in 250 for Length and Width. 45. Key-in 5 for Thickness.
46. Select the free extremities of the vertical beams using Ctrl-Click. 47. Click on OK.
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1. Double-click on Join icon 2. Select Miter cut as Type. 3. Select member to trim. 4. Select trimming member. 5. Click on OK.
6. Repeat steps 87 to 90 for each miter cut as indicated in the Exercises book. 7. Select Weld cut as Type and do the same operation as for miter cut. 8. Save and Close Boring_Fixture.
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This last exercise will enable us to modify interactively the boring fixture by stretching the grid-support. We will first insert the Boring_Fixture CATProduct in the Boring_Jig main product. 1. Select the File + Open menu.
2. Look in Step5.
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8. Select Boring_Fixture CATProduct. 9. Click on Open. You can also insert the Boring_Fixture CATProduct you saved in the previous step.
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All right, let us associate the two products now! 10. Select the Assembly Design workbench icon. 11. Select the Manipulation icon .
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15. Check the Automatic constraint creation option. 16. Select one edge of the base plate of Boring_Fixture product as shown below.
17. Move Boring_Fixture to reach the edge of the base plate of Base product as shown below.
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And finally, to finish, let us stretch the grid! We shall maybe need to make it visible. 20. Double-Click twice on the highlighted plane as shown below.
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23. Select first element as shown below. 24. Select second element as shown below.
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28. Key-in + next to 1280mm value in the Offset field. 29. Press <Ctrl+v>.
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