Chapter 4: Creating Simple Parts, Assemblies, and Drawings
To create the offset for your part, follow these steps:- Open a sketch on the face of the part. To create the offset, expand the Extrude feature
by clicking the plus icon next to it in the FeatureManager so that you can see the sketch.
Regardless of how it displays here, this sketch appears before the extrude in the part his-
tory. Right-click the sketch and select Show.
Tip
You can view individual sketches and reference geometry entities such as planes from the RMB menu. The
global settings for the visibility of these items are found in the View menu. You can access these items faster by
using the View toolbar, or by linking the commands to hotkeys. n
- Right-click the sketch in the graphics window and click Select Chain. This selects any
non-construction, end-to-end sketch entities. Click Offset Entities on the Sketch toolbar.
Offset to the inside by .400 inches. Apply .500-inch sketch fillets to each of the corners. - Click Extruded Cut on the Feature toolbar. By default, the extruded cut will cut away
everything inside the closed profile of the sketch. Look down the FeatureManager win-
dow and select the check box on the top bar of the Thin Feature panel. Make the cut
Blind, .100 inch. The Thin Feature type should be set to Mid Plane with a width of .400
inches. The PropertyManager and graphics window should look like Figure 4.6.
FIGURE 4.6Creating the groove with a thin feature cut