Creo Parametric 2.0 Practice Exercises.

Sensor Unit Assembly Creo Parametric 2.0 Exercise 3. After working through the online tutorials and Exercises 1 and 2, try completing this practice exercise. The components are not complex but you will gain practice and experience in several typical construction techniques available within Creo Parametric, which in turn can be applied to much larger projects. Some parts of the instructions for this exercise are minimized as familiarity with the basic operations will have been gained from the previous practice exercises. Use of the Help menu is recommended where uncertainty about a particular operation occurs. Body

Head

Ring

Assemble

The sensor unit comprises of a main body, a threaded retaining ring, and a sensor head. For this exercise; Model each part. Build an assembly of the modelled parts. Document or produce drawings of each part and the assembly.

Construction notes are provided further on in this document for each of the above. 1

To enable the parts to be constructed, detailed drawings of each part are provided on the following pages. NOTE, that threads are shown for illustrative purposes only they do not have to be modelled. The M45 of the Sensor Body will be modelled as a 45 cylinder. The M45 of the Sensor Head retaining Ring will be a 45 bore. Threads are not usually modelled on a part as this operation can use up time and memory. They are typically designated on a model by text, or specified on the detail drawings conventionally.

Details of the sensor body

Details of the sensor head

Details of the retaining ring

Sensor Body. Commands and procedures used:

Modelling the parts.

Centreline for revolve extrusion axis. Revolve to produce the basic cylindrical shape. Adding a Datum Plane for the elliptical flange. Center and Axis Ellipse tool. The Project icon to project an edge to the Sketch plane. Delete segment tool to dynamically trim the segments

Construction Mode

Extrude - remove material. Arc to produce a curved slot Mirror to produce the other curved slot. Chamfer. Round.

The technique shown to construct this part is to model the cylindrical portion first using Revolve, then add the elliptical flange to the model by setting up a suitable datum plane.

The following sketch shows the sketched profile for revolving. It is essential that a centreline has been placed along the horizontal axis to act as the axis of revolution. This would be placed first before any sketching with the Line command takes place.

Profile sketch prior to using the Revolve command

The revolved extrusion with chamfers and rounds added

To sketch the profile for the elliptical flange, it is necessary to have a datum plane in the required position. Using the Datum Plane tool to set a plane 45mm away from the RH end face as shown.

Sketch ellipse on the reference plane just created. To include the 30 bore in the extrusion and therefore have a hole through, select the Project icon and select both halves of the 30 hole edge through the original body extrusion.

To sketch one curved slot, turn on the Construction Mode and using the Arc tool to create a 100 arc with opening angle of 40. When the Construction Mode is toggled on, you can use any sketch tool available to sketch new geometry, but the resulting geometry is created as construction geometry rather than solid geometry. You can then toggle off Construction Mode and resume sketching solid geometry using the same sketch tools. When drawing the arc, make sure that the two green bars appear at both ends of the arc (as shown below), which means constrain relationship (equal) is automatically applied.

To define the opening angle to 40, click Normal, then hold Ctrl key and select one end point on the arc, the centre of the 30 hole, and the other end point on the arc sequentially. Then release Ctrl and click MMB to modify the size of the angle.

Toggle off the Construction Mode and place two circles at both end of the arc. From the centre of the sketch, draw another two circles which are tangent with both of the small circles. Use delete segment tool to delete the unwanted segments.

Select the Mirror tool to produce a symmetrical curved slot on the other side of the sketch. The Mirror tool has been introduced in Exercise 2 - Pin model construction.

Accept the selection and sketch and extrude the flange towards the LH end by the required amount.

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Sensor Head

Commands and procedures used: Centreline for revolve extrusion axis. Revolve. Hole to produce the through holes. Chamfer.

To produce the Sensor Head basic cylindrical shape, the profile should be sketched as shown. Note, that a full line should be drawn along the x axis superimposed on the centreline.

The plane for the holes can be either of the end faces. Where a hole is to lie on a planes axis move one of the diamonds to reference that plane and set the value to 0. The other diamond will reference a plane at right angles to the first. Sensor Head Retaining Ring

Commands and procedures used: Centreline for revolve extrusion axis. Revolve to produce the basic shape without the grips. Sketch references to produce one grip.

Pattern to produce the 12 required grips. Chamfer.

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Profile sketch for the basic shape of the retaining ring prior to using the Revolve command. To produce the first grip, sketch on the large end face of the retaining ring and accept the default planes, then Sketch. In the sketch window, select References in the setup group, then select the outer circumference of the retaining ring and a reference as shown should appear in the References window.

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Now sketch a 8 circle in the position shown. Because the circumference has been selected as a reference, the circle centre will snap to it automatically.

Extrude the circle profile to the required length. The next stage will be to create a circular pattern of the initial grip. To create a pattern, highlight the extrude for the grip then RHMB click and select Pattern. The following dashboard window will appear.

Make the LH box Axis. Select the x axis through the centre of the retaining ring (move the cursor over the axes until it highlights). Set the number of pattern members to 12 and the angle between pattern members to 30.0. The patterned items will appear previewed as black dots. Select the green tick or MMB to accept. When applying the chamfers, hold down Ctrl to perform a multi-selection of edges.

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Assembling the parts.

Make the Sensor Body the first fixed part. Add the Sensor Head and assemble it as shown using the Automatic constraints. The flange on the Sensor Head should be in contact with the LH end face of the Sensor Body. Add the Retaining Ring. The inside face of the Retaining Ring should be in contact with the outer flange face of the Sensor Head.

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To create the above exploded view of the assembly: Select Explode View in the Model tab, Model Display group.

To move any part into a more suitable position within an exploded view: Select Edit Position and the part you want to move. Clicking on one of the 13

three axes, which will appear on the part, then dragging with the LHMB will allow dynamic adjustment to a parts position. For a clearer display of the exploded view (or any view), switch off or de-activate the Plane, Axis, Point, and Csys Display icons.

Try changing the colour of each part of the exploded assembly by

experimenting with the Appearance Gallery.

To Unexplode a view: Click Explode View again to de-active the explode mode.

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Drawing and detailing the parts. For this exercise, the orthographic views for each part will all be placed on an A3 sheet Sheet 1 of the saved drawing file. The assembly view and an exploded isometric view will all be placed on an A3 drawing sheet Sheet 2 of the saved drawing file.

The Target views on Sheet 1. Note that no plan view is required for either the Sensor Head or the Retaining Ring. The plan view for the Sensor Body is not strictly necessary but has been included for clarity of the components geometry.

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The Target views on Sheet 2.

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Procedure to create the multiple parts orthographic views on Sheet 1. Click File > New > Drawing. Enter the name of the drawing and click OK. Select Empty in the Specify Template part. Choose the size of the paper and click OK

When the drawing sheet appears, and with the Layout tab active, select the Drawing Models

icon

When the Menu Manager appears, select Add Model. Browse for the first part which will be the Sensor Body. Click on Open. Repeat this for the Sensor Head, the Sensor Head retaining Ring, and the Sensor Assembly. Do not select Done/Return yet! Now select Set Model in the Menu Manager. Select the SENSOR_BODY from below Draw Models and notice the message which appears below the dashboard stating that The current drawing model is now SENSOR_BODY. Click Done/Return. Select the General icon and note that the message which appears below the dashboard states Select CENTER POINT for drawing view. LHMB click somewhere near the centre of the drawing sheet. When the Drawing View window appears adjust the settings as the screen shots below

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Repeat the procedure to produce orthographic views of the SENSOR HEAD and SENSOR HEAD RETAINING RING. To alter the display of a view, make it highlight then RHMB click and select Properties. This will open the Drawing View window. If a view or views are to be moved, then RHMB click on the highlighted view and make sure Lock View Movement is not ticked. Note that when creating orthographic views projected from the first view, RHMB click the first view and then select Insert Projection View to place the desired projection view. They may be in first angle projection (this is the default projection used by Creo Parametric). To describe a component in third angle projection, simply switch the views around as required.

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Procedure to create the assembly orthographic views and an exploded assembly view on Sheet 2.

Assembly views. Click on the New Sheet icon in the Layout tab and Document group, .

or the plus symbol at the bottom of the drawing sheet Sheet 2 will automatically become the active sheet. Click on the Drawing Models icon and Add the model of the Sensor Unit Assembly, the procedure being the same as described previously.

Exploded Assembly View. Select the General icon and when the Drawing View appears accept all the default settings but tick the Explode components in View States. Highlight the view which has appeared on screen, RHMB click, select Properties, then in the Drawing View window select View States. Select Customize Explode State and then LHMB on a component to highlight it. RHMB will allow dynamic positioning of the component in the drawing view. Experiment further with the options for changing a views appearance using Properties/Drawing View. To rotate the view orientation of the current exploded assembly view on the drawing sheet, highlight the view and select Properties. In the Drawing View window select View Type then under View Orientation make the Angles button active. Change Rotation reference to Vertical, enter an Angle value of 45 then Apply. Finally, go back to Sheet 1 and with the Annotation tab active, try adding some dimensions to the views along with the Show Model Annotations command found under the RHMB.

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