Comments on: Building a Stapler – Arm Bracket (Sheet Metal)

By: tbpung

tbpung — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:05:33 +0000

Hi, Initial it work drag & drop the save forming tool object to surface of the part to perform enboss work. After save and reopen to perform another drag & drop of save forming tool object but this time it could not work, it shown up dialogue box message ” Are you try to make a derive part” difference from previous dialogue of “Position from Feature” Try performance again and again still have the same dialogue box message ” Are you try to make a drive part”. Is there some function I have miss out or some setting need to be perform? Please help & advise. Thanks

By: TheSWGeek

TheSWGeek — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:41:25 +0000

Glad to hear you like the tutorial.

In order to change the dimple, you'll need to delete the feature created by the forming tool. Then edit the form in the design library prior to adding it to the part again.

By: 20100

20100 — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:44:13 +0000

great tutorial – but I've ran into a problem with the dimples: they're way too big for the model: it seems I can't resize them… Any idea what the problem is? I use a student evaluation kit (SW09); thanks,

By: TheSWGeek

TheSWGeek — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:52:06 +0000

I am glad I can help.

By: TheSWGeek

TheSWGeek — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:52:06 +0000

I am glad I can help.

By: Lars

Lars — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:36:50 +0000

That did it, thank you Alex

By: Lars

Lars — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:36:50 +0000

That did it, thank you Alex

By: TheSWGeek

TheSWGeek — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:03:10 +0000

Hi Lars,

For your first question: Select the line and select the origin point; then in the PropertyManager select the 'Midpoint' relation.

The Second: Hold the SHIFT key when you select the tangent while applying the dimensions. This eliminates the need to create construction lines.

If your still not clear about these points, let me know and I can create a quick video illustrating these processes. Thank you for your comments, your questions could answer the same questions someone else may have.

By: TheSWGeek

TheSWGeek — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:03:10 +0000

Hi Lars,

For your first question: Select the line and select the origin point; then in the PropertyManager select the 'Midpoint' relation.

The Second: Hold the SHIFT key when you select the tangent while applying the dimensions. This eliminates the need to create construction lines.

By: Lars

Lars — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:32:23 +0000

Thank you for a great blog, I have already picked up a couple of tricks that I never knew existed from this whole stapler project.
I got 2 question as I am going through creating this "arm bracket".
1)
1st picture you create a sketch line of 0.675 length with the midpoint on origin. I agree with you that seems like a good choice, but how do you do that, without creating theline and then moving it to the origin?
2)
when you edit "sketch16 (1st edge flange)" you have your dimensions coming to the tangent of the 2 arcs (R.125 and R.250) the only way I could stop have my dimension jumping to the center of the arc, was to create a couple of vertical construction lines that I added a relation to the arc's, and then dimensioned the construction lines.
I think that there might be a easier way to go about that.

Thank you
Lars