Getting Started with OneSpace Designer

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Getting Started with OneSpace Designer
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What is a Work Plane?

• A Workplane is like a transparent drafting board.
• Workplanes are shown with a border to help you
  see where it is at all times. However the border
  does not mark the boundaries of the workplane
  because workplanes are infinitely large.
• You can create 2D profiles on a workplane.
• A workplane and profile can combine to make a
  tool.
• You can use a tool with a machining command to
  create or modify a part.

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What is a Work Plane? continued

• A workplane can be positioned anywhere in space.
• Each workplane has its own local coordinate
  system that moves with the workplane when you
  position it. This is called the UVW coordinate
  system.
• You can create profiles only on the active
  workplane.
• You can have multiple workplanes, each located at
  a different point in space and each with a unique
  profile.

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Creating a Workplane
By default new workplanes are located at the CAD
system origin.
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Creating Geometry on a Workplane
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Creating Geometry on a Workplane continued

• The Straight, Circular, and Contour menus can be
  used to create finite geometry. The Construct
  menu, by comparison, is used to create infinite
  lines.
• You can affect how geometry is displayed on the
  workplane and how workplanes are displayed in the
  viewport by using the Show menu. Edit -gt Settings
  -gt Show Settings -gt Workplanes

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Creating Geometry on a Workplane Exercise

1. Click Create 2D in the main menu - Straight is
   automatically selected
2. Make sure Geometry is switched on in the Straight
   menu
3. Click Polygon at the bottom of the menu.
4. Specify the first point of the profile by
   entering 0,0 on the command line.
5. Click Horizontal in the Polygon option box, and
   click the other end of the profiles lower line.
6. Now click Vertical and create a long vertical
   line.
7. Continue drawing the profiles external geometry.
   The final segment is created by clicking Close in
   the Polygon menu. When you are finished click OK,
   the green check.
8. Now click Circular in the Create 2D menu.
9. Click Ctr Rad in the Circular menu.
10. Click a center point for the circle in the
    viewport, and then click a point on the circle to
    imply its radius.
11. Click OK in the Circular menu.
12. The profile should look like the following

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Creating Solid Models Machine Menu

• Commands for machining profiles and parts are
  found in the Machine menu.
• The two machining operations that can be applied
  to profiles are
• Extrude creates a part by extruding the profile
  by a given distance or up to another object, such
  as a part or a face.
• Turn created a part by sweeping a profile around
  a specified axis.
• For both of these machining commands the profile
  must be closed.
• These and the Unite and Reflect commands can be
  used to add material to existing parts. For
  example, Extrude can also be used to add a boss
  to an existing part.

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Creating Solid Models Machine Menu continued

• A number of machining commands remove material
  from existing parts. Command such as Mill and
  Punch use a profile on a workplane to define the
  material to be removed. Other, such as Subtract
  and Intersect, use a tool part in conjunction
  with a blank.

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Creating Solid Models Machine Menu continued

• You can affect how solid models are displayed in
  the viewport
• The Shaded switch in the Show menu turns on and
  off shading of the parts faces.
• The Wire switch in the Show menu turns on and off
  the display of the facets of which the part is
  composed.
• The Hidd Supp switch in the Show menu turns on
  and off the display of the hidden lines in a
  part. When this is on you can also use Hidd Dimm
  to display the hidden lines dimmed.

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Creating Solid Models Exercise

1. Use the profile you created in the previous
   exercise (3 slides back) for this exercise.
2. Click the Machine menu in the main menu.
3. Click Extrude in the Machine menu
4. In the Part data field, enter the name
   simple_part.
5. The Workplane field is already filled in, W1, as
   this workplane is active and contains a valid
   closed profile. In general, if this field is not
   filled in automatically, it implies that the
   active profile is not valid, and must be fixed
   before it can be machined.
6. The Extrude method is Distance by default, and
   the Distance data entry field is yellow meaning
   that this information is required.

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Creating Solid Models Exercise continued

1. Enter 2 in the distance data entry field. Notice
   a green preview appears.
2. Leave the Direction (W) at its default, and also
   the two switches that offer you the option to
   keep or discard the workplane (Keep WP, checked)
   and profile (Keep Prof, unchecked) at their
   defaults as well.
3. Click OK in the Extrude menu. The green preview
   turns gray indicating a solid model was created
   and the Extrude menu disappears.

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Modifying Solid Models Machine Menu

• Machining commands can be used to add or remove
  material from existing parts
• Mill is used to remove material that lies within
  a profile a specified distance.
• Punch works similarly to Mill but removes
  material within a profile an infinite distance in
  both directions.
• Stamp does the inverse of Punch, removes material
  outside the profile.
• Bore sweeps a profile around a specified axis
  like Turn, but Bore removes material.

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Modifying Solid Models Machine Menu continued

• Shell is used to provide solid models with
  uniform wall thickness.
• Unite adds parts to an existing part or adds
  parts together to create a new part.
• Reflect reflects one or more parts to create a
  single resulting part
• Subtract is used to modify a blank by subtracting
  a tool from it.
• Intersect modifies a blank by keeping only the
  material that is common to both the tool and the
  blank.
• Section allows you to see the inside detail of a
  part or assembly.

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Modifying Solid Models Exercise Creating
Workplanes on a model

• Use the simple_part you created in the previous
  exercise (4 slides back) for this exercise..
• Click Workplane in the Main menu.

• Click New in the Workplane menu. The Create New
  menu displays the default name of w2 and the
  default owner of root or / (slash).

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Modifying Solid Models Exercise Creating
Workplanes on a model

• Click Par to Face to expand the Create New menu.

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Modifying Solid Models Exercise Orienting
Workplanes on a model

• Click Slide Origin this will relocate the origin
  of the workplane, selected arbitrarily when you
  clicked on the face to known point on the face.
  Click the bottom left point of this face.
• Click OK in the Create New menu. The new
  workplane automatically becomes the active
  (green) workplane, as shown in the Active _at_P
  display fiedk at the bottom of the screen.
• Create a simple profile on the workplane Click
  Create 2E the Straight menu also opens/
• Click Rectanglee, and draw a rectangle within the
  parts face as shown/ You can position the view
  at any time to help you see wha tyolu are doing.
  Tis doen net interrupt the action.
• Click Machine in the main menu. (The Straight
  menu closes automatically OD is assumed.)
• Click Punch in the Machine menu/
• The Part display field shows the mane
  simple_part and the workplane filed shows W2.
  This is because bot a re active and the workplane
  contains a closed profile Click IL in the Punce
  menu to accept the data. The prokfiel sweeps
  throuth the medel in the workplanes mormal
  direction and temeves the defined volume

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Modifying Solid Models Exercise Orienting
Workplanes on a model

• Click U Dir, this will allow you to specify the
  direction of the U axis of the new workplane. The
  Direction 3D Menu will appear.

• Click Edge Tangen and then click the lower edge
  of the highlighted face.

• Click Accept.

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Modifying Solid Models Exercise Orienting
Workplanes on a model

• All of the required information for the creation
  of the new workplane has now been entered.
• Click OK (green check) in the Create New menu.
  The new workplane gets created, its origin is at
  the lower left corner of the face and the U axis
  is in the direction of the lower edge.

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Modifying Solid Models Create Profile

• Create a simple profile on the workplane Click
  Create 2D the Straight menu also opens.
• Click Rectangle, and draw a rectangle within the
  parts face as shown. You can position the view
  at any time to help you see what you are doing.
  This does not interrupt the action.

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Modifying Solid Models Machine Profile

• Click Machine in the main menu.

• Click Punch in the Machine menu.

• The Part display field shows the name simple_part
  and the Workplane field shows W2. This is because
  the part is active (green edges) and the
  workplane is active (green border) and contains a
  closed profile.

• Click OK in the Punch menu to accept the data.
  The profile sweeps through the model in the
  workplanes normal direction and removes the
  defined volume.

• End of GETTING STARTED session

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More Information

• For more information
• Visit the ALS CAD/E/M home page
• http//www-eng.lbl.gov/als
• Read the online ALS WorkManager Introduction
• http//www-eng .lbl.gov/als/WorkManager/Intro_to_
  WM
• View this presentation or other class materials
• http//www-eng .lbl.gov/als/WorkManager/Training_
  Materials