Lets looks at a simple 4-Bar assembly: The 4-Bar linkage is an amazingly simple mechanism but the analysis is fairly complex (kinematics is a junior/senior level course). This is very useful for design of kinematic systems where the motion is often complex So far we have been making sure our assemblies are fully defined, however, we can also use SolidWorks to analyze motion of parts if we only partially constrain our assemblies. You can have it continue to explode and collapse if the RECIPROCATE button is pressed on the Animation controller. To animate the collapse/explode, right click on the configuration and choose ANIMATE EXPLODE or COLLAPSE. Likewise, if you RIGHT CLICK on the assembly again in configuration manager, you can EXPLODE the assembly. You should see after exiting a NEW “Explview1” If you RIGHT CLICK on the original assembly, you can collapse the assembly. Now click on the lower saddle and move it downward m.Ĭlick OK in configuration manager or hit OK to exit sketch. The screw should be pulled UPWARD and the distance set to 0.07m. Repeat procedure for second hex nut then repeat for each hex screw. Double click on this and change the distance to 0.05m. Click on the vertical arrow and drag the hex nut below.
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Click and Hold on any chosen direction to DRAG the part away from the main assembly. Property Manager will then open.Ĭlick on one of the HEX Nuts. This way, we only have to create a view one time, then we can display it at any point with the click of a button.Ĭlick the THIRD TAB that is with the Feature and Property Manager. Using the configuration manager we can create different “configurations” of our part which we can turn on and off on the fly.
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SolidWorks provides us an excellent tool in the Configuration Manager to allow us to construct exploded views of our part.
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LESSON 5 SOLIDWORKS TOOLBOX BASICS HOW TO
Oftentimes, when we are creating assemblies we want to show an exploded view which illustrates to the reader how to assemble/disassemble the part. The first thing that we are going to do this lesson is look at how we can create alternate configurations for the assembly, in order to represent exploded or section views.ģ Solidworks Begin by opening the assembly that we created last lesson. 1 Solidworks Lesson 5 - Assembly Configurations and MotionĢ Solidworks During the last lesson we learned how to construct assemblies using the basic mating constraints that are present in SolidWorks.