I have seen these in some different designs but can't seem to figure out the proper way to design them based dimensions' and constraints and looking for advice even video tutorial that can guide the through them.
I think part of the problem is I don't know what they are called. Any help would be greatly appreciated, not looking for someone to do the work for me, teach me to fish so to speak.
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Are you on free personal license or on paid commercial license?
Are you able to open dxf file?
If yes, first thing to do is right click on the browser and select Capture Design History...
Now select Move set to Sketch and window select all sketch objects.
Move such that the geometry appears more or less symmetrical about the Origin (don't worry about getting perfect yet).
Attach your *.f3d progress file here for next set of steps.
This geometry is rubbish - we will only use it as reference to recreate proper geometry...
My first step to use as reference is to move it to symmetry about the origin (roughly).
This geometry is much better, but it too is not located with symmetry about the origin and is missing constraints and dimensions.
It will be easier to fix this one, so we will start with it.
Edit the sketch and add these dimensions...
Add Construction line from center of circle to midpoint of line.
Add Perpendicular Constraints.
After we get this all defined, we will start from scratch to demonstrate how it should have been done.
Now add these dimensions...
Now that we see many of these arcs are R1mm, delete all but one of the R1 dimensions. Replace them with Equal (=) Constraints between the dimensioned arc and the other equal size arcs.
You are going about this all wrong.
Where are your dimensions?
There is no need to model skewed as we can take the solid and rotate to any angle.
OK, we will start over from scratch...
Sketch this Construction line between these two points.
Observe these white dots...
Add Coincident Constraints between the white dots and the Construction Line.
Start adding the missing dimensions...
Start adding the missing Tangent Constraints...
Now we have all of the information needed to model correctly...
Sketch a circle with the center at the ORIGIN as shown...
Sketch a Horizontal line above the Origin as shown above.
Sketch a Perpendicular (Vertical) line from the midpoint of the horizontal line to the bottom of the circle as shown.
Drag the intersection of the two lines to the Origin (or add a Coincident Constraint).
Attach your progress file here.
@condrovic1980 wrote:Here is what I have so far, the problem I seem to be having is designing the arms that come off the circle and keeping them constrained the correct way.
We will get there - but you will have to follow my steps precisely.
Your sketch should look like the image below...
Click and drag the horizontal line.
What do you observe.
Add a Midpoint or Coincident constraint between the line and the Origin.
What do you observe?
I can't click it currently assuming that it's due to the current constraints, which if I delete and try and add a midpoint to it does this
