Part II: Building Intelligence into Your Parts
- Open another new sketch on the Front plane and draw the tangent lines to form the
web in the middle of the part. Use the automatic relations to draw the lines tangent
to the two cylinders. It is easiest if you the Front View for this. Close the sketch to
make a solid extrusion. Extrude this part .5 inches Mid Plane. - Open a new sketch on the face of the large flat web that you created in the previous
step, and offset the arc edge of the larger circular boss by 2.10 inches. - Change the arc to a construction arc and drag its endpoints to approximately the
position shown in Figure 6.20. The endpoints of the arc are blue after you drag them.
Give them a Horizontal relation, and then dimension them.
` To create the 2.10 dimension as shown, select the arc and circle with the Dimension
cursor while pressing down the Shift key.
FIGURE 6.20
Creating an offset arc- Choose File ➪ Properties. Make sure the Custom tab is active, and type Sketch Text in
the first open box of the Property Name column. Make sure the Type is set to Text, and
in the Value field, type SolidWorks. Click OK when you are done. - Choose Tools ➪ Sketch Entities ➪ Text to initiate the creation of sketch text.
- Select the construction arc to go into the Curves window.
- Below the Text window, click the Link to Property button. Select Sketch Text from
the drop-down list. Select the Full Justify option, then click the green check mark
icon to accept it.