Week 7 Assemblies

In this weeks exercises we were introduced to Assemblies. It gave us the opportunity to

• Create simple assemblies in Solidworks.
• Create an exploded view of an assembly.
• Create a technical drawing containing an exploded view and a bill of materials.

P7.1

in this exercise we were to firstly create this solid part and then create multiple assemblies using various kinds of mates to join parts together.

P7.1 Part

P7.1 Assemblies

The problems faced when mating certain parts is the orientation of the part. At least one part has to be fixed so you can rotate the other part. Doing this makes mating easier.

P7.2 These exercises introduced us to putting in a description when saving the part. This discription will come in handy when a Build of Material is needed in the Technical Drawing. The Bill of Material also introduced us to the Balloon Annotation tool. This identifies each part corresponding to the Bill of material.

P7.2.1

P7.2.2

P7.2.3

P7.2.4 Assembly

P7.2 Exploded View. Technical Drawing. Build of Material/Balloons

P7.4 Using the same parts above to create a different assembly

Exercise P7.5 we had to create the following parts and then create an exploded view of the assmbly

P7.5.1 Slide

P7.5.2 Cap

P7.5 Exploded Assembly