Pneumatic cylinders Solidworks lessons

[akoscielski3]

Adam, your video talked about what other ways to do something like this. The only thing I normally do different is I make things into Blocks, so the dimensions aren't in the way, and the relations don't mess anything up. It also makes it a lot cleaner and can make repetitive things quicker to draw.

Also I will sometimes start this sketch in an assembly, and then make the assembly using the sketch. A lot of the Part are 'In-Context" parts and everything will update when you change/modify your sketch. This is usually too difficult for a Student to do though, so I would only do this for school, or work (assuming co-workers know how to use in-context assemblies, so sometimes I'll break the references to old parts).

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by akoscielski3

Adam, your video talked about what other ways to do something like this. The only thing I normally do different is I make things into Blocks, so the dimensions aren't in the way, and the relations don't mess anything up. It also makes it a lot cleaner and can make repetitive things quicker to draw.

Also I will sometimes start this sketch in an assembly, and then make the assembly using the sketch. A lot of the Part are 'In-Context" parts and everything will update when you change/modify your sketch. This is usually too difficult for a Student to do though, so I would only do this for school, or work (assuming co-workers know how to use in-context assemblies, so sometimes I'll break the references to old parts).

I need to give blocks an honest shot again, I used to over use them and they'd occasionally cause sketches to blow up. I'm not hearing that complaint from people recently though.

The second method I do a lot for personal and smaller projects, but I have trouble integrating on the team as so many different people of varied skillets work on the model and it tends to confuse them.

[akoscielski3]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

The second method I do a lot for personal and smaller projects, but I have trouble integrating on the team as so many different people of varied skillets work on the model and it tends to confuse them.

That's why I break the references when I'm done. It kind of ruins the whole "in-context" part but it makes Designing a lot quicker.