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

Ring
Head

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.

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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 Ø45 cylinder.
The M45 of the Sensor Head retaining Ring will be a Ø45 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.

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Details of the sensor body

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Details of the sensor head

Details of the retaining ring

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 Modelling the parts.
Sensor Body.
Commands and procedures used:

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.

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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 Ø30 bore in the extrusion and therefore have a hole through,
select the Project icon and select both halves of the Ø30 hole edge through the
original body extrusion.

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To sketch one curved slot, turn on the Construction Mode and using the Arc
tool to create a Ø 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
Ø30 hole, and the other end point on the
arc sequentially. Then release Ctrl and
click MMB to modify the size of the angle.

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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.

SAVE YOUR WORK NOW!

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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.

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The plane for the holes can be either of the end faces. Where a hole is to lie on
a plane’s 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 Ø8 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.

SAVE YOUR WORK NOW!

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

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three axes, which will appear on the part, then dragging with the LHMB will
allow dynamic adjustment to a part’s 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 component’s 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.

SAVE YOUR WORK!

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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 view’s 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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