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Swept, Lofted and Additional Features Engineering Design with SOLIDWORKS® 2018

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":,., Review of the HOUSING Part

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The HOUSING utilized the Extruded Boss/Base feature with the Draft ~ Equations

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Angle option. The Lofted Boss feature was created to blend the CJ Front Plane -

circular face of the LENS with the rectangular face of the BATTERY. CJ Top Plane

CJ Right Plane
The Shell feature removed material with a constant wall thickness. The L Origin

Draft feature utilized the front face as the Neutral plane. • ~ Base Extrude

CJ BatteryLoftPlane

You created a Thread similar to the LENSCAP Thread. The Thread • ~ Boss-Loft1

• ~ Boss-Battery

profile was copied from the LENSCAP and inserted into the Top Plane (B Shelll

of the HOUSING. The Extruded Cut feature was utilized to create a • ~ Boss·Stop

~ Oraft1

hole for the Switch. The Rib features were utilized in a Linear Pattern CJ ThreadPlane

• ~ ThreadPath
and Mirror feature.

• ~ Thread

• .J° Handle
Each feature has additional options that are applied to create different • ~ SwitchHole

geometry. The Offset From Surface option creates an Extruded Cut on • ~ Rib1

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the curved surface of the HOUSING and LENSCAP. The Reverse CJ LongRibPlane

offset and Translate surface options produce a cut depth constant • ~ Rib2

~ Mirror1
throughout the curved surface.

Utilize Tools, Sketch Entities, Text to create the

lane
text profile on an Offset Plane.

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-;Q~ The Instance to Vary option in the Linear

Pattern PropertyManager allows you to vary the

dimensions and locations of instances in a feature

pattern after it is created. You can vary the ~ Reverse offset
l"""I Translate surface ...._,,,.,,,

dimensions of a series of instances, so that each O Flip side to cut

instance is larger or smaller than the previous ~ Instances to Vary A

Skip Instance
one. You can also change the dimensions of a Direction 1 Increments

Modify Instance
single instance in a pattern and change the .if O.OOOin

_ _,_C_u_sto_m_iz_e M_ e_nu__. Choose Feature dimensions to
position of that instance relative to the seed varv in Direction 1

feature of the pattern. For linear patterns, you can nskip Instance Direction 2 Increments -
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change the spacing between the columns and odify Instance .if O.OOOin

rows in the pattern. Choose Feature dimensions to
Customize Menu
_____ ____, vary in Direction 2

Modified Instances

.. :• Left Click on an instance
• modifier to override

dimensions for individual

instances.

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