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How to model a rope drive in Solid Edge?

By Muhammad Bilal Ghaffar on 21 Apr 10:37 2 answers 1311 views 3 comments

Detailed Tutorial for Beginners to Model Rope Drive in Solid Edge.
Rope Drive

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  • Muhammad Bilal Ghaffar
    Muhammad Bilal Ghaffar about 1 year ago

    First run Solid Edge.

    1. Step 1

      Then click
      "ISO Part" as highlighted with green box in the following figure.

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    2. Step 2

      Then save it to your working directory.

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    3. Step 3

      Now check the unchecked box of "Basic Reference Planes".

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    4. Step 4

      Now from top view tab, change the view to front view as shown in following figure.

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    5. Step 5

      Before sketching you can also turn off reference planes by unchecking "Basic Reference Planes".

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    6. Step 6

      From Sketching tab, select line and create lines by endpoints.

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    7. 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.

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    8. Step 8

      Using left click mark two ends of line.

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    9. Step 9

      Then right click to finish it.

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    10. Step 10

      Now use middle mouse button.

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    11. Step 11

      Using middle mouse button or wheel, click twice to get fit to screen view.

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    12. Step 12

      Select "Continuous line" to get 2D reference sketch.

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    13. Step 13

      Using left clicks make sketch.

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    14. Step 14

      Final shape of sketch must be like this, as shown in following figure.

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    15. Step 15

      Now click "Smart Dimension"

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    16. Step 16

      And then from menu you can change dimension standard units.

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    17. Step 17

      Using same menu you can also change precision of dimension values..

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    18. Step 18

      Use following dimension values to get the following shape 2D sketch.

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    19. Step 19

      Now click "Revolve" to get revolved extrusion.

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    20. Step 20

      Left click on face as shown in figure and then right click outside.

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    21. Step 21

      Now left click on line to be used as central axis as shown in figure and then right click outside.

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    22. Step 22

      After selecting central axis enter the degree of rotation as 360, as highlighted with green box in the following figure.

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    23. Step 23

      Now select the orientation as highlighted in the following figure and get the Drive Pulley's isometric view..

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    24. 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.

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  • Ngoc Tan
    Ngoc Tan 6 months ago

    thank for nice Tutorial!

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