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Basic Part Design Flashcards

1
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How many sketches do you need to have to sweep?

A

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What is the difference between the loft and sweep features?

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The loft allows you to use two different cross sections.

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How many sketches are needed to use the loft tool?

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4
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ow do you close a loft using a sketch that is already a part of the loft?

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Check the Close Loft button in the property window.

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5
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When using mid plane, how do you know how to split your depth properly?

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SolidWorks will take care of that for you.

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6
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How would you go about changing the sketch on an extruded boss item?

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Edit the sketch and when you’re finished, the extruded item will adjust to the new size.

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7
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In order to use the Through All Both condition on extruding cuts, what do you have to do with the second direction?

A

SolidWorks automatically sets it to Through All.

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8
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True or False: You can not use the edge of the drawing as the axis of revolution.

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False

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9
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If you are cut extruding multiple items but you need them to have different end conditions, you must…

A

Individually cut them.

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10
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If you are changing the geometry but realize you want to go back to how you had it, what button should you click?

A

The red X.

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11
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The sketch defines the _____, and the feature defines the _____.

A

Shape, thickness

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12
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True or False: When you sketch the line to rib, it does not have to be touching the other surfaces. SolidWorks will automatically do this.

A

True

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13
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How can you access the sketch once you have created a boss?

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Using the properties window and clicking the plus sign next to the boss

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14
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Which of the following is an example of design intent?

  • Centering a circle in a square with side length 4 by setting the distance between the center of the circle and the side to be 2.
  • Having a cut needing to go through the whole shape be set to 3 inches, which is the thickness of the shape.
  • Putting three circles that need to have the same radius and giving them individual dimensions.
  • None of these
A

None of these

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15
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Why is design intent useful?

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It keeps your parts up to standard even if you have to make changes to the geometry later in the future.

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16
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What is the difference between sketch based features and applied features?

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Sketch features are created from a 2D drawing while applied features simply modify an existing feature.

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17
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Which plane should you use when starting your sketch?

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Depends of what you want your part to look like.

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18
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How should you build your parts?

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There are many ways to build your parts, and you can make it whichever way is easiest for you.

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19
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When should you use fillets?

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At the end of making a part.

20
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Should you create similar size fillets together or individually?

A

Together.

21
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How can you center a circle within another circle/arc?

A

Select the two shapes using the Ctrl button and manually set the relationship -or-
Drag the inner circles center over to the bigger circle/arc’s center where SolidWorks will then snap the two in place and add a geometric relation.

22
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What are the advantages to using the hole wizard?

A

When you move to making 2D drawings, SolidWorks already knows the hole call outs and annotations. -and-
There are predefined commonly used hardware holes so you don’t have to look them up.

23
Q

When using the mirror tool, you can mirror…

A

Features, Faces, and Bodies.

24
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How is the rollback bar useful?

A

It lets you reverse features to get back to the original sketch.

25
Q

Why is it helpful to center your sketch with front, top, and right plane?

A

It helps with symmetry.

26
Q

Why is mirroring a symmetric part efficient?

A

It saves you time when creating a part. -and- If you have to make changes to the part you only have to change one part.

27
Q

True or False: If you make a cut on the original after the mirror function is used, it will show up on the reflection.

A

False

28
Q

Having your part centered at the origin of the three given planes is helpful because…

A

It offers you a plane to use for symmetry purposes.

29
Q

How can you quickly transition from the line tool to the arc tool?

A

Move your mouse over the end point of the line and SolidWorks automatically switches your setting.

30
Q

How do you figure out what dimensions need to be added to make your sketch fully defined?

A

Click on parts of the sketch and see what still moves.

31
Q

Why is it better to be in an isometric view when you’re extruding something?

A

So you can tell the direction and depth of the extrusion.

32
Q

SolidWorks has all of the following under the mass properties window except…

  • Mass.
  • Material.
  • Density.
  • Volume.
A

Material

33
Q

The center of mass, moment of inertia, etc. are calculate by default with respect to what?

A

Part origin.

34
Q

What is a quick way to change the material?

A

Right-click on the Material in the property window and click one of the materials on the preset list.

35
Q

When using a material that SolidWorks has defined, all of the following properties of the material are given except…

  • Poisson’s ratio.
  • Cross hatch.
  • Elastic modulus.
  • Shear modulus.
A

Cross Hatch

36
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When you select two edges, all of the following are shown in the measure box except…

  • Their total combined length.
  • The angle between them.
  • Distance between them.
  • What plane they are in.
A

What plane they are in.

37
Q

How can you create a shortcut?

A

Options > Customize > Keyboard tab > Search Measure

38
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What are four examples of sketch features?

A

Extrude, revolve, sweep, loft

39
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What are three examples of applied features?

A

Fillet/Chamfer, Shell, Mirror

40
Q

What so sketch features require?

A

a sketch

41
Q

What does “boss” mean? “extrude”?

A

Boss= Add. Cut= Remove.

42
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How many points are needed to create a plane?

A

3

43
Q

What is “tangent”?

A

When a line touches a circle at only one point

44
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What is a cross section?

A

It is the sketch for the thickness of a sweep (not the path)

45
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How many sketches do you need for a loft?

A

2

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