Spring Assembly. in the Begin Assembly Property. on the Standard toolbar and click Add-Ins.

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1 Chapter 2 Spring Assembly A. Create New Assembly. Step 1. Click File Menu > New, click Assembly and OK. Step 2. Click Cancel Manager. in the Begin Assembly Property B. Enable Toolbox Browser. Step 1. If necessary, turn on Toolbox Browser, click the flyout of Options on the Standard toolbar and click Add-Ins. Step 2. Check SOLIDWORKS Toolbox Browser to place a check in the both check boxes, then click OK, Fig. 1. C. Design Library. Step 1. Click the Design Library tab in the Task Pane (right side of graphics area), Fig. 2. Fig. 1 Step 2. Expand the Toolbox expand ANSI Inch folder expand Bolts and Screws folder click Hex Head folder Step 3. In the lower pane, right click Hex Finished Bolt and click Insert into Assembly, Fig. 2. Step 4. In the Property Manager set: under Properties, Fig. 3 Size 1/2-13 Length 2.5 click OK. Fig. 3 Fig. 4 Fig. 2 SOLIDWORKS 15 Assembly SPRING MOTION STUDY Page 2-1 Cudacountry.net Tech Ed cudacountry@hotmail.com 3/14/15

2 Step 5. Right click the hex finished bolt in the Feature Manager and click Fix from menu, Fig. 5. Step 6. Over in the Task Pane, Fig. 6: minimize Bolts and Screws folder expand Nuts folder click Hex Nuts Step 7. In the lower pane, click Hex Nut, Fig. 6 and drag nut onto the shaft of the bolt, Fig. 7. When the nut snaps into bolt and the cursor changes to concentric mate Step 8. When done, click OK and Cancel., release the nut. Fig. 5 Release nut when cursor changes to Step 9. Click Zoom to Fit (F) on the View toolbar. Fig. 7 Fig. 6 Step 10. Grab the nut and slide it off the bolt, Fig. 9. D. Save as "SPRING ASSEMBLY". Step 1. Click File Menu > Save As. Step 2. Key-in SPRING ASSEMBLY for the filename and press ENTER. E. Insert Spring. Step 1. Click Insert Components on the Assembly toolbar. Step 2. Click Browse in the Property Manager, Fig. 8. Step 3. Select SPRING file and click Open. Fig. 8 Step 4. Place Spring as positioned in Fig. 9. Fig. 9 SOLIDWORKS 15 Assembly SPRING MOTION STUDY Page 2-2

3 F. Mate: Screw. Step 1. Click Mate on the Assembly toolbar. Step 2. In the Mate Property Manager: under Mate Selections, Fig. 10 click cylindrical face of Bolt shaft and cylindrical inside face of Nut hole, Fig. 11. expand Mechanical Mates select Screw Revolutions/in Revolution 20 uncheck Reverse the rotation arrow should point clockwise around the bolt head, Fig. 11 click OK Rotation arrow Fig. 11 Step 3. Click OK in the Property Manager. Fig. 10 Step 4. Spin nut on bolt and check out the screw mate threads. G. Mates: Bolt and Spring. Step 1. Click Mate on the Assembly toolbar. Step 2. Click line of Spring sketch and cylindrical face of Bolt shaft, Fig. 12. Step 3. Click Concentric mate in Mate pop-up toolbar and Add/Finish Mate, Fig. 13 and Fig. 14. Fig. 12 Fig. 13 Fig. 14 SOLIDWORKS 15 Assembly SPRING MOTION STUDY Page 2-3

4 Step 4. Click inside face of Bolt head, Fig. 15. Step 5. Expand the flyout Feature Manager design tree (click +) in the top left corner of the graphics area, then expand SPRING and click Right Plane, Fig. 16 and Fig. 17. Step 6. Click Add/Finish Mate in Mate pop-up toolbar to add a Coincident mate. Step 7. Click inside face of Bolt head, Fig. 18. Fig. 15 Fig. 17 Step 8. Rotate view to view inside face of Nut as shown in Fig. 19. To rotate, hold down middle mouse button (wheel) and drag. Fig. 16 Fig. 18 Step 9. Click inside face of Nut, Fig. 19. Step 10. Click Distance in Mate pop-up, Fig. 20. Set distance to 1.9 and click Add/Finish Mate to add the Distance mate. Fig. 19 Step 11. Click OK in the Property Manager. Step 12. Save. Use Ctrl-S. Fig. 20 Fig. 21 SOLIDWORKS 15 Assembly SPRING MOTION STUDY Page 2-4

5 H. Coincident Relation: Line Endpoint and Nut Edge. Step 1. Click line in Spring sketch in the graphics on the Con- area and click Edit Sketch tent toolbar, Fig. 22. Step 2. Ctrl click endpoint of line closest to Nut and edge of nut to select both. Release Ctrl key and click Make Coincident Context toolbar, Fig. 23. on the Fig. 22 Step 3. Click Edit Component on the Sketch toolbar to turn off edit component and return to the assembly file. Fig. 23 Step 4. Save. Use Ctrl-S. I. Hide Sketch1. Step 1. Click line of spring sketch in the graphics areas and click Hide toolbar, Fig. 24. on the Context Fig. 24 J. Motion Study. Step 1. Click the Motion Study 1 tab at bottom of the display, Fig. 25. Step 2. Drag the Time Bar to 4 seconds, Fig. 25. The Time Bar is the gray vertical line at 0 seconds. Step 3. Expand Mates in the Motion Study tree, Fig. 25. Drag Timebar from here......to 4 seconds Fig. 25 SOLIDWORKS 15 Assembly SPRING MOTION STUDY Page 2-5

6 Step 4. Right click Distance1 Mate and click Edit Dimension, Fig. 26. Step 5. Key in.95 in the Modify box, Fig. 27 and Fig. 28. Click OK. Step 6. Drag the Time Bar to 8 seconds, Fig. 29. Step 7. Right click Distance1 Mate and click Edit Dimension, Fig. 29. Fig. 26 Step 8. Key in 1.9 and click OK, Fig. 30 and Fig. 31. Fig. 27 Fig. 28 Drag Timebar from 4 sec......to 8 seconds Step 9. Click down arrow next to Playback Normal, click Loop and Play, Fig. 32. Click Stop. Fig. 30 Fig. 29 Fig. 31 Fig. 32 SOLIDWORKS 15 Assembly SPRING MOTION STUDY Page 2-6

7 K. Create Animation Movie. Step 1. To save Motion Study as a movie file (AVI), click Save Animation Manager toolbar, Fig. 33. in the Motion Step 2. Key-in a file name in the Save Animation to File dialog box. Also, the frames per second can be controlled. The more frames the larger the file size. Click Save. Click OK in the Video Compression dialog box. Step 3. Click the Model tab Motion Study, Fig. 33. Fig. 33 at bottom of the display to return to model and turn off SOLIDWORKS 15 Assembly SPRING MOTION STUDY Page 2-7