New Bloodhound Car Tutorial

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F1 in Schools Tutorial 2A Step by Step Guide

To

Designing a

Bloodhound CarIn

SolidWorks

There are10Achievement

Points to Collec t

During This Tutorial!

Requirements: SolidWorks Student Edition or SolidWorks Design Kit

You are advised to complete Bloodhound tutorial 1

before attempting this tutorial.


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Information for F1 in Schools Coordinator:

Welcome to our new range of F1 in Schools (SolidWorks) Tutorials!

In writing these tutorials, we have tried to look at this projec t from your perspective and in the

following ways:

You are busy subject teacherswhose main priority is your core- curriculum area. You know little about SolidWorksand know it can be a HUGE undertaking to know all

there is to know about any CAD package.

You want to feel confident to answer student questions and will not undertake thesetutorials in front of a class until you are ready to do so.

If the above scenario sounds familiar, we are relieved! It means we have understood your needs

and have aimed these tutorials in exactly the right direction. We hope the above three issues

have been resolved as follows:

We know how busy you are!These tutorials have been written with the hope that you can

simply hand them out / give yourself some space / let the students explore and discoverfor themselves / making progress at YOUR pace.

We have aimed these tutorials at those with no CAD experience at all.Secondly, neitheryou or your students need to know all there is to know about SolidWorks for the following

reasons:

1. There simply is not enough time to do so.

2. You dont need to.

3. Both you and your students would die of boredom and feel you were either

achieving nothing or were achieving far too slowly to remain interested.

We have reduced each tutorial down to a manageable chunkfor both you and your

students to read / attempt / attempt again / attempt again with your own ideas ratherthan ours.

Summary and Suggested Approach

As a suggested starting point (and without wanting to teac h you how to suck eggs) we suggest

the following:

The whole group work through the booklets,regardless of chosen areas of responsibility intheir F1 in Schools team. This will surprise you when you hear students wishing to change

their roles, having found the software easier or harder than they anticipated! The

ACHIVIEMENT POINTS can be used by you as a reward system.

Save / repeat / save again / repeat again.This should be repeated until the students are

correcting their own errors and drawing their own ideas rather than ours. You may thenwish to assign the role of Team Design Engineer having seen who is most capable.

As with all of our support materials, we welcome your feedback. This is the only way we know

we are meeting your needs as F1 in Schools coordinators.

With regards,

Don Sankey

F1 in Schools UAE

D. Sankey 2010 Page 1


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For Your Information

We will now show you how to draw a Bloodhound Car

using the BALSA-WOOD block which you have already

drawn in Bloodhound Tutorial 1.

1. OPEN THE BLOCKwhich you have drawn from the Bloodhound Tutorial 1

booklet.

2. GO TO THE FEATURES TAB AND SELECT THE EXTRUDED CUT TOOL then

select the face of the block as shown below

3

select this face

of the block

1Open the

FEATURES TAB tofind EXTRUDED

CUT TOOL

2

When you see this

message..

3. CHANGE THE VIEW TO FRONTand THE DISPLAY TO WIREFRAMEas shownbelow

1 2

4. SELECT THE SPLINE TOOLas shown below



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5. Using the SPLINE TOOL, draw a shape similar to the one below, c licking

the mouse at each point

Click on last pointthen pressEscapeKeyto exit spline

Click on the lineat approximate

location

6. SELECT SPLINE TOOL / CREATE ANOTHER SPLINEas shown below

Click on last point

then pressEscapeKeyto exit spline


location1

You haveUSED THE

SPLINE TOOL!

STOP ANDSAVE YOUR

WORK!

SAVE YOUR WORK / start a new drawing and try repeating everything you havedone so far.without looking at your tutorial pages!



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7. SELECT THE LINE TOOL as shown below

8. ZOOM IN TO THE FRONT OF THE SKETCH THEN CONNECT THE END POINTS

OF BOTH SPLINES

Click end point

1

Click end point

3

Press Escape Key

2

To Zoom In:Position the mouse at the point

where you want to zoom and roll

the mouse wheel with your finger

9. SELECT ZOOM -TO -FITso your drawing is in the middle of the screen

2

You haveDESIGNED THE

FRONT OF YOURCAR! STOP AND

SAVE YOURWORK!



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10. SELECT THE LINE TOOL/ create a closed shape by CLICKING ON THE

POINTSas shown below. There should be 8 in total

Make sure your

blue lines surround

the wedge-shaped

block!

11. CHANGE THE VIEW TO ISOMETRICas shown below

Hello

12. SELECT ACCEPT to finish the sketch

13. CHANGE DIRECTION 1 TO THROUGH ALLas shown below CHECK

DIRECTION ARROWso direc tion is going INTOthe block as below andCLICK TO EXTRUDE CUT THE SKETCH

1

3


Make sure this

direction arrow is

pointing TOWARDSTHE BLOC K!


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14. CHANGE DISPLAY STYLE TO SHADED and see the result below

15. SELECT THE EXTRUDE CUT TOOL

3

You haveSHAPED THE FRONT

OF YOUR CAR!

STOP ANDSAVE YOUR

WORK!

16. EXPAND THE FEATURE TREE shown below and then SELECT THE TOP

PLANE

Expand this

Feature tree

1

2

Select the

Top Plane

17. CHANGE THE VIEW TO TOPand THE DISPLAY TO WIREFRAME

For Your InformationWe are now looking downonto the TOP of your car

as we are about to draw

the shape from the TOP or

PLAN VIEW



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18. SELECT THE LINE TOOL / SELECT THE FOR CONSTRUCTION OPTION AS

SHOWN BELOW

19. CREATE A HORIZONTAL LINEthrough the middle of the car as shown

below

Line Tool

1

For Constructi

1

Click to start

1

4

You haveDRAWN A

CONSTRUCTIONLINE!

Click and pressEscape Key to

finish

2

2

20. SELECT THE CIRCLE TOOL and CREATE THE CIRCLE AS SHOWN BELOW

1Click here for the

center of the circle

Click and press Escape

Key to finish

2

21. SELECT SMART DIMENSIONand ADD A 15m m DIMENSION TO THE C IRCLE

AS SHOWN BELOW



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22. Using the SPLINE TOOL, draw a shape similar to the one below, c licking

the mouse at each point

Click on last point

then pressEscapeKeyto exit spline


location

23. SELECT YOUR SPLINE / HO LD DOWN CTRL KEY / SELECT THE CIRCLE / ADD

A TANGENT RELATION BETWEEN THEM AS SHOWN BELOW


5

You haveCREATED ATANGENT!

Select spline

1

3

Select Tangent and

press Escape Key

Hold down CTRL

key and select

circle

2


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24. SELECT THE LINE TOOL/ create a closed shape by CLICKING ON THE

POINTSas shown below. There should be 6 in total

Click on last point

then pressEscapeKeyto end line

25. SELECT THE MIRROR ENTITIES TOOL / CLICK THE MIRROR ABOUT BOX THEN

SELECT THE HORIZONTAL CONSTRUCTION LINE as shown below

2

1

3

Select centre line



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26. SELECT THE ENTITIES TO M IRROR BOX THEN SELECT EACH O F THE 5

STRA IGHT LINES AND 1 SPLINE OF THE SHAPE YOU HAVE DRAWNas shown

below

27. We now need to delete the small circle at the front of the car. CLICKTHE CIRCLE TO SELECT IT and press delete. SELECT YESwhen asked the

question shown below and SELECT ACCEPTto finish the sketch

Click OK to mirror the

shape3

As you select each

of the drawn lines

they will be

repeated below th

centre lineas showhere

2

1

6

You haveUSED MIRROR

ENTITIES!2

STOP ANDSAVE YOUR

WORK!1

28. Change the Direction 1 to THROUGH A LL,tick Direction 2 and change

the setting to THROUGH A LL.Click OK to extrude the sketch

29. CHANGE VIEW TO TRIMETRICclick mouse somewhere in the

drawing area and below is the result

2

3

1



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7

You have

COMPLETED

THE TOP SHAPE!

STOP ANDSAVE YOUR

WORK!

30. Change the VIEW TO RIGHTand the display to SHADED WITH EDG ES

31. SELECT FILLET

32. FOLLOW THE NUMBERED C LICKING PATTERN BELOWto make a full radius

on the front of the carSelect

tick tofinish

8

76

5

4 3

1

2



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33. CHANGE VIEW TO ISOMETRICand see the result below

8

You have

CREATED AFILLET!

STOP ANDSAVE YOUR

WORK!

34. SELECT FILLET TOOL / CONSTANT RADIUS / SET TO 5m m

35. SELECT FULL PREVIEWthen SELECT ONE EDG E OF THE CARshown below

2

3

4

1



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36. CLICK OK TO APPLY FILLETand see result below

37. SELECT FILLET / ENTER 3mm / SELECT BOTTOM EDG E / SELECT OKsee result

below

STOP ANDSAVE YOUR

WORK!Bottom edges should

now be rounded or

filleted

9

You haveCREATED

FILLETED EDGES!

1

SAVE YOUR WORK / open the block again and try repeating everything you havedone so far.without looking at your tutorial pages!



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38. SELECT EXTRUDED CUT

39. Expand the feature tree shown below and SELECT FRONT PLANE

40.CHANG E VIEW TO FRONTand display to WIRE FRAME

41.SELECT THE LINE TOOL / FOR CONSTRUCTIONas shown below

42.DRAW A LINE UNDER THE CARto act as the road surface as shown below


Expand thisFeature tree

2

Select the

Front Plane

1

Line Tool

For Construction

2


finish

2

Click to start

1

Adding the holes for the wheel axles

1


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43.SELECT THE CIRCLE TOOL / DRAW THE BACK WHEEL/ make sure the centre

is not in the gas chamber!

Do not worry about the sizeof the wheel or if it is not

touching the road surface

at this stage!

3

Click to

position the

centre

1


finish

2

44.SELECT SMART DIM ENSION / ADD THE CORRECT DIM ENSION TO THE BACK

WHEEL

45.ADD A DIMENSION BETWEEN THE ROAD A ND THE CENTRE OF THE WHEEL


Add this dimension.

What size do you

think it should be?

1

STOP ANDSAVE YOUR

WORK!


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46.REPEAT STEPS 43-45 for the front wheel

47.DRAW A C IRCLE IN THE M IDDLE OF EACH WHEEL / 3m m DIAMETERas shown

below

48. ADD A TANGENT BETWEEN THE ROAD A ND THE BACK WHEELsee below

and step 23 of this booklet to help you do this

Hold down CTRL

key and select

back wheel

2

Select road line

1

Select Tangent and

press Escape Key

3

You c an no w se lec t the roa d- line a nd m ove it up a nd d ow n until

you f ind a po sit ion w here y ou a re ha pp y to p lac e the c en t re o f

eac h whee l



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49.SELECT AND DELETE BOTH OUTER-WHEELS AND THE ROAD SURFACE .When

asked the question below, answer YES

50. ACCEPT THE SKETCH/ Change Direction 1 to THROUGH ALL,and Direction

2 to THROUGH A LL.Click OK to extrude the sketch

51. CHANGE VIEW TO TRIMETRICc lick mouse somewhere in the drawing area

and below is the result: your D-Type car body with axle-holes!

NEXT TUTORIAL?.......Tutorial 3.Drawing an F1 Block in SolidWorks

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You haveFINISHED THECAR BODY!

SAVE YOUR WORK / open the block again and try repeating everything you havedone so far.without looking at your tutorial pages!

STOP ANDSAVE YOUR

WORK!


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New Bloodhound Car Tutorial