Part VII: Working with Specialized Functionality
FIGURE 30.20
A corner where three fillets come together is not correct.
- Open a sketch on the flat face from which the tab protrudes. Right-click any edge
where the tab intersects the sketch face, and select Select Tangency. Then click the
Convert Entities toolbar button, and click the green check mark icon to accept the result,
and exit the sketch.
- Right-click one of the long faces of the tab and select Select Tangency. This selects all
but two faces of the tab. There are 16 faces altogether. Activate the Delete Face feature,
and select the Delete and Patch option, select the two remaining faces of the tab, then
accept the result. The model should remain a solid model, and the tab should be replaced
by a smooth face.
- Select the sketch created in Step 4 and extrude it to blind depth of 0.050 inch.
Apply a fillet around the end face with a radius of 0.010 inch.
- Activate the Move Face feature, and select all the faces of the two side tabs and the
snap feature on the end. Use the Translate option, and the Right (YZ) plane as the direc-
tion, and use a distance of 0.25 inch. You should have no less than 21 faces selected.
Faces that are parallel to the translate direction do not need to be selected, because they
are automatically extended or trimmed to fit. If you are having trouble selecting the right
faces, refer to Figure 30.21, and open the finished part on the CD-ROM called
Tutorial1finished.sldprt.
- Save the part under a different name and exit.
