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Detailed Tutorial for Beginners to Model Rope Drive in Solid Edge.
Rope Drive
First run Solid Edge.
Step 1
Then click
"ISO Part" as highlighted with green box in the following figure.Step 2
Then save it to your working directory.
Step 3
Now check the unchecked box of "Basic Reference Planes".
Step 4
Now from top view tab, change the view to front view as shown in following figure.
Step 5
Before sketching you can also turn off reference planes by unchecking "Basic Reference Planes".
Step 6
From Sketching tab, select line and create lines by endpoints.
Step 7
Click at highlighted green box as shown in the following figure and then select "Dash Dot line" to sketch center line as a reference for rotation.
Step 8
Using left click mark two ends of line.
Step 9
Then right click to finish it.
Step 10
Now use middle mouse button.
Step 11
Using middle mouse button or wheel, click twice to get fit to screen view.
Step 12
Select "Continuous line" to get 2D reference sketch.
Step 13
Using left clicks make sketch.
Step 14
Final shape of sketch must be like this, as shown in following figure.
Step 15
Now click "Smart Dimension"
Step 16
And then from menu you can change dimension standard units.
Step 17
Using same menu you can also change precision of dimension values..
Step 18
Use following dimension values to get the following shape 2D sketch.
Step 19
Now click "Revolve" to get revolved extrusion.
Step 20
Left click on face as shown in figure and then right click outside.
Step 21
Now left click on line to be used as central axis as shown in figure and then right click outside.
Step 22
After selecting central axis enter the degree of rotation as 360, as highlighted with green box in the following figure.
Step 23
Now select the orientation as highlighted in the following figure and get the Drive Pulley's isometric view..
Step 24
Now click Solid Edge icon of top bar on left side and "Save as Image" to get your 3D model image for rendering of your model.