Notice I’m grabbing the center point of these circles to add these dimensions and you’ll see that once I add these dimensions down here, it tells me that it is fully defined and the sketch turns black and is no longer blue. So I’ll go ahead and add some more dimensions. And now you’ll notice this still says under defined, and my sketch is still blue, so I still have to add more dimensions to fully define it. So that ensures that these circles are going to stay vertical to that origin. In addition to the origin point, I get this menu again and this time I’m going to select vertical. So now I’m going to go ahead and hold control and keyboard again- this time, select the center points of the two circles. Okay, the other one automatically creates the same size. So now if I come back into my smart dimension tool and I assign dimension to one of these. And what that’s going to do is make sure that these two circles are always the same size. So the one that I’m going to add is equal. When I do that, this property window comes up and it will allow me to add these relations. Once I do that, I’m going to click on the first circle, hold in the control key on my keyboard and select the second circle. So in this case I’m going to create a circle,Īnd you’ll see if I get close to where the origin lines up, it creates that dotted line for me to let me know that I’m close to the center. So the pattern is you always want to create a sketch and then add your feature. So I’m going to right click on the face and select sketch. So for the holes I’m going to start with this side and I could either add them to this face or to this face. And I’ll hit the green check to make that change. So it’s going to create equal amounts of extrusion on each side of the sketch. But in this case I’m going to hit this dropdown and I’m going to say mid-plane. So I can flip which side of the sketch that we’ll be extruding on. And you can see there’s this reverse direction tool. So from here I can type in a value of how much I want to extrude that.
So what I have to do is come up to my features menu and select extruded boss/base. So now that I have this profile, if I rotate holding in the scroll of my mouse, I can see that there’s no, there’s no depth, there’s no 3D assigned to it yet. Hit the green check to exit out of that tool. I can zoom in and out using the scroll wheel on my mouse.Īnd now I have that L profile. I’m going to create a heights and all I’m doing is just selecting these lines. So I’ll create a thickness of a quarter of an inch on both sides. So I’m going to come up here to the smart dimension tool and start adding in my dimensions. From in here, I can now add dimensions to this because, as you’ll notice, nothing is set yet I have to define those things and you’ll also take notice that down here it says it is under-defined and we want to keep adding dimensions until it says it is fully defined. I want to make sure that I close that loop. Starting with the line tool and starting at the origin, I’m going to start to create the L profile that I mentioned in the first step. So I’m going to start with the line tool, which is in our sketch ribbon here. It is best practice to always have something attached to the origin. I’m going to right click and select sketch.
So for this particular instance, I’m going to start with the front plane. Over here on the left you can see they have a front plane, top plane, and right plane. So the first thing we have to do when creating a sketch is specify the plane that we want to be sketching on. Going to come up here to new, select part, and say, okay. So let’s go ahead and get started with a fresh part template.
From there I added my side holes, then my bottom holes, and lastly, I added a fillet to the inside crease. So what I first did was create this L shape, this profile and I extruded it soon a certain depth. So, I’m first going to take a look at the completed product within the design tree and move this bar back to take a look at the first feature that I created. Hello, this is Abby again with Design Point and in this video I’m going to be sharing how I created this simple L bracket in SolidWorks.
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Watch this video to learn how to make a L-shaped bracket in SolidWorks.