Picking up where we left off on Friday, we are going to be finishing up the stapler cradle today. If you missed the first part of this tutorial, you can find it here. In the first part of this tutorial we started building the staple cradle using standard features that we will then convert to a sheet metal component.
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I know, I know… It’s been way too long since I have written an article for the stapler but I am going to make up for it today. Today we are going start a two part article on how to build the staple cradle of the stapler. I don’t know if it is really called that but it is the sheet metal part of the stapler that holds all the staples. I have done sheet metal parts on the SolidWorks Geek before but this time instead of creating a sheet metal part from native features, we are going to create a solid model that we will then add sheet metal bends to create the finished part. For this article, I am also trying a different approach to present the steps for this project to the readers, your feedback would be greatly appreciated.
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Earlier this week, I revisited the techniques I discussed in my video Splitting a Part in SolidWorks. I left off at splitting the part into two solid bodies and that is where will be picking up from today. If you missed the first part of this article, I would strongly suggest you go back and read it here.
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After I created the video for splitting parts, I was asked by a few of my readers to write an article about splitting parts since some companies block Youtube videos. Rather then rehash the same information over again I decided to take the opportunity to explore another approach to achieve the same outcome. As anybody will tell you, there are more ways then one to crack an egg. (I know…bad pun)
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Last week, I introduced you to making derived sketches to save time in duplicating features on your part. Today is all about using the Insert Part command to create a derived part. A derived part is an extremely useful technique for adding features to a part without affecting the original part. When the original part is updated the derived part is updated as well. There a many reasons you may need to use this technique in your usage of SolidWorks. I have seen it used by molders to prepare a model by adding drafts, splits and modifying faces for making the mold tool. I use this technique when I have a purchased part in my design library that I need to make modifications without actually affecting the geometry of the original part.
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I know last week I mentioned that we were finished with sketch tools, for the time being, but I figured one more couldn’t hurt. I was working on a model for work earlier this week that I had created a few features using Derived Sketches and I thought it would be a great topic to discuss. Unlike when using Convert Entities, Derived Sketches can be moved anywhere on your part and they will still maintain their reference to the parent sketch. As the parent sketch is updated, each derived sketch is updated regardless of it’s location.
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When I started The SolidWorks Geek six months ago, I wanted to share the benefit of my experience with SolidWorks and ASME with the rest of the engineering community. I started Standards Tuesday, later Standards Wednesday, to introduce readers to drawing specifications that control our daily engineering lives. I never expected the response to the concept and I was surprised about the following it has gained. I am proud to say that Standards Wednesday has introduced some readers to ASME and has hopefully improved the quality and consistency of their drawings. It’s because of this that I make this announcement with profound sadness… Standards Wednesday is going on hiatus.
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