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Spring Assembly
A. Create New Assembly.
Step 1. Click File Menu > New, click Assembly and OK.
Step 2. Click Cancel in the Property Manager, Fig. 1.
B. Enable Toolbox Browser.
Step 1. If necessary, turn on Toolbox Browser, click Tools Menu > Add-
Ins.
Step 2. Check SolidWorks Toolbox Browser to place a check in the
check box, then click OK, Fig. 1.
C. Design Library.
Step 1. Click the Design Library tab in the Task Pane (right side of drawing area), Fig. 2.
Step 2. Expand the Toolbox
Expand Ansi Inch folder
Expand Bolts and Screws folder
Click Hex Head folder
Step 3. In the lower pane, right click Hex Finished
Bolt and click Insert into Assembly, Fig. 2.
Step 4. In the Property Manager, set:
Size to 1/2-13 Fig. 3
Length to 2.5
click OK .
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Step 5. Over in the Task Pane,
Close Bolts and Screws folder , Fig. 5
Expand Nuts folder
Click Hex Nuts
Step 6. In the lower pane, click Hex Nut, Fig. 5 and drag
nut onto the shaft of the bolt, Fig. 6. When the
nut snaps into bolt and the pointer (cursor)
changes to concentric
mate , release the nut.
Step 7. When done, click OK
and Cancel .
Step 8. Click Zoom to Fit
(F) on the View toolbar.
Step 9. Grab the nut and slide it off the bolt, Fig. 8.
D. Save as "SPRING ASSEMBLY".
Step 1. Click File Menu > Save As.
Step 2. Key-in SPRING ASSEMBLY for the lename and press ENTER.
E. Insert Spring.
Step 1. Click Insert Components on the Assembly toolbar.
Step 2. Click Browse in the Property Manager.
Step 3. Select SPRING le and
click Open.
Step 4. Place Spring as positioned in
Fig. 8.
Fig. 5
Release nut
when cursor
changes to
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F. Mate: Screw.
Step 1. Click Mate on the Assembly toolbar.
Step 2. Click cylindrical face of Bolt shaft and cylindrical inside face of Nut hole, Fig. 9.
Step 3. In the Mate Property
Manager:
expand Mechanical
Mates, Fig. 10
select Screw
select Revolutions/in
set Revolution to 20
uncheck Reverse (the
rotation arrow should
point clockwise around
the bolt head),
Fig. 11
click OK
Step 4. Click OK in the
Property Manager.
Step 5. Spin nut on bolt and check out the screw mate
threads.
G. Mates: Bolt and Spring.
Step 1. Click Mate on the Assembly toolbar.
Step 2. Click line of Spring sketch and cylindrical
face of Bolt shaft, Fig. 12.
Step 3. Click Concentric mate in Mate pop-up
toolbar and Add/Finish Mate , Fig. 13
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and Fig. 14.
Step 4. Click inside face of Bolt head, Fig. 15.
Step 5. Expand the Design Tree (click +) in the top
left corner of the draw-
ing area, Fig. 16.
Step 6. Expand SPRING and
click Right (plane),
Fig. 16.
Step 7. Click Add/Finish Mate
in Mate pop-up
toolbar to add a Coin-
cident mate, Fig. 17.
Step 8. Click inside face of Step 8. Click Step 8. Click
Bolt head, Fig. 18.
Step 9. Rotate view to view inside face of Nut as
shown in Fig. 19. To rotate, hold down
middle mouse button (wheel) and drag.
Step 10. Click inside face of Nut Step 10. Click Step 10. Click , Fig. 19.
Step 11. Click Distance in Mate pop-up, Fig. 20.
Set distance to 1.9 and click Add/Finsh Mate
to add the Distance mate.
Step 12. Click OK in the Property Manager.
Step 13. Save. Use Ctrl-S.
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H. Coincident Relation: Line Endpoint and Nut Edge.
Step 1. Click line of Spring sketch in the drawing and
click Edit Sketch on the Content menu,
Fig. 22.
Step 2. Ctrl click endpoint of line closest to Nut and
edge of nut to select both. To Ctrl click, click
the endpoint and hold down Ctrl key and the
edge of Nut, Fig. 23.
Step 3. Click Make Coincident on the Content
menu, Fig. 23.
Step 4. Click Edit Component on the Sketch
toolbar to turn off edit component and return to
the assembly le.
Step 5. Save. Use Ctrl-S.
I. Hide Sketch1.
Step 1. Click line of spring sketch in the drawing and
click Hide on the Content menu, Fig. 24.
J. Motion Study.
Step 1. Click the Motion Study tab at bottom of the display, Fig. 25.
Step 2. Drag the Time Bar to 4 seconds, Fig. 25. The Time Bar is the gray vertical line at 0 sec-
onds.
Step 3. Expand Mates in the Motion Study tree, Fig. 25.
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Step 4. Right click Distance1
Mate and click Edit
Dimension, Fig. 26.
Step 5. Key in .95 in the Modify
box, Fig. 27 and Fig. 28.
Click OK .
Step 6. Drag the Time Bar to 8
seconds, Fig. 29.
Step 7. Right click Distance1
Mate and click Edit Di-
mension, Fig. 29.
Step 8. Key in 1.9 and click OK
.
Step 9. Click Play in Motion
Manager toolbar, Fig. 32.
Step 10. Click down arrow next
to Playback Normal , click Loop
and Play , Fig. 32. Click Stop .
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K. Create Animation Movie.
Step 1. To save Motion Study as a movie le (AVI), click Save Animation in the Motion
Manager toolbar, Fig. 33.
Step 2. In a le name in the Save Animation to File dialog box. Also, the frames per second can
be controlled. The more frames the larger the le size. Click Save. Click OK in the Video
Compression dialog box.
Step 3. Click the Model tab at bottom of the display return to model and turn off Mo-
tion Study, Fig. 33.
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