Creating Solid Geometry
You can create several types of Solid geometry. In addition, you can combine solid geometry into more complex geometry or modify the geometry by adding features, such as fillets or chamfers.
Creating a Box
To create a box:
2. In the settings container, do the following:
♦Specify whether you want to create a new part composed of the geometry or add the geometry to an existing part or ground.
♦If desired, set any of length, height, or depth dimensions of the box.
3. Place the cursor where you want a corner of the box and click and hold down the left mouse button.
4. Drag the mouse to define the size of the box. If you specified any of the length, height, or depth dimensions of the box in the settings container, Adams View maintains those dimensions regardless of how you drag the mouse.
5. Release the mouse button when the box is the desired size.
Creating Two-Dimensional Plane
To create a plane:
2. In the settings container, specify whether you want to create a new part composed of the geometry or add the geometry to an existing part or ground.
3. Place the cursor where you want a corner of the box and click and hold down the left mouse button.
4. Drag the mouse to define the size of the box.
5. Release the mouse button when the box is the desired size.
Creating a Cylinder
To create a cylinder:
2. In the settings container, do the following:
♦Specify whether you want to create a new part composed of the geometry or add the geometry to an existing part or ground. By default, Adams View creates a new part.
♦If desired, set the length or radius dimensions of the cylinder in the settings container.
3. Click and hold down the mouse where you want to begin drawing the cylinder.
4. Drag the mouse to size the cylinder. If you specified any of the length and radius dimensions of the cylinder in the settings container, Adams View maintains those dimensions regardless of how you drag the mouse.
5. When the cylinder is the desired size, click.
Creating a Sphere
To create a sphere:
2. In the settings container, do the following:
♦Specify whether you want to create a new part composed of the geometry or add the geometry to an existing part or ground. By default, Adams View creates a new part.
♦If desired, set the radius of the sphere.
3. Click where you want the center of the sphere.
4. Drag the mouse to size the sphere. If you specified a radius dimension for the sphere in the settings container, Adams View maintains that dimension regardless of how you drag the mouse.
5. When the sphere is the desired size, click.
Creating a Frustum
To create a frustum:
2. In the settings container, do the following:
♦Specify whether you want to create a new part composed of the geometry or add the geometry to an existing part or ground.
♦If desired, set the length or radii of the frustum.
3. Click where you want to begin drawing the frustum.
4. Drag the mouse to size the frustum. If you specified the length or radii of the frustum in the settings container, Adams View maintains those dimensions regardless of how you drag the mouse.
5. When the frustum is the desired size, click.
Creating a Torus
To create a torus:
2. In the settings container, do the following:
♦Specify whether you want to create a new part composed of the geometry or add the geometry to an existing part or ground. By default, Adams View creates a new part.
♦If desired, set the minor and major radii of the torus.
3. Place the cursor where you want the center of the torus and click.
4. Drag the mouse to define the radius of the torus. If you specified the radii of the torus in the settings container, Adams View maintains those dimensions regardless of how you drag the mouse.
5. When the torus is the desired size, click.
Creating a Link
To create a link:
2. In the settings container, do the following:
♦Specify whether you want to create a new part composed of the geometry or add the geometry to an existing part or ground.
♦If desired, set any of the length, width, or depth dimensions of the link.
3. Place the cursor where you want to begin drawing the link, and click.
4. Drag the mouse until the link is the desired size and then release the mouse button. If you specified the length, width, and depth of the link in the settings container, Adams View maintains those dimensions regardless of how you drag the mouse.
Creating a Plate
To create a plate:
2. In the settings container, do the following:
♦Specify whether you want to create a new part composed of the geometry or add the geometry to an existing part or ground.
♦If desired, set the thickness or radius of the corners of the plate.
3. Place the cursor where you want the first corner of the plate and click the left mouse button.
4. Click at each corner of the plate. You must specify at least three locations.
5. Continue selecting locations or right-click to close the plate.
Note: | If the distance between any two adjacent points is less than two times the radius of the corner, Adams View cannot create the plate. |
Creating an Extrusion
To create an extrusion based on an existing curve profile:
2. In the settings container, do the following:
♦Specify whether you want to create a new part composed of the geometry or add the geometry to an existing part or ground.
♦Set Create profile by to Curve.
♦If desired, set the length (depth) of the extrusion.
♦Specify the direction you want the profile to be extruded from the current Working grid. Learn about directions.
♦Select Analytical to create the revolution using the Analytical Method. Clear to use the Non-analytical Method.
3. Select the curve profile.
To create an extrusion based on selected points:
2. In the settings container, do the following:
♦Specify whether you want to create a new part composed of the geometry or add the geometry to an existing part or ground.
♦Set Create profile by to Points.
♦Specify whether or not you want to create a closed extrusion.
♦If desired, set the length of the extrusion.
♦Specify the direction you want the profile to be extruded from the current Working grid. Learn about directions.
♦Select Analytical to create the revolution using the Analytical Method. Clear to use the Non-analytical Method.
3. Place the cursor where you want to begin drawing the profile of the extrusion and click.
4. Click at each vertex in the profile; then right-click to finish drawing the profile.
Creating a Revolution
To create a revolution by selecting points to define the profile:
2. In the settings container, do the following:
♦Specify whether you want to create a new part or add the geometry to an existing part or ground.
♦Set Create by Picking to Points.
♦Specify whether or not you want to create a closed revolution.
♦Select Analytical to create the revolution using the Analytical Method. Clear to use the Non-analytical Method.
3. Click at two points that define the axis about which Adams View revolves the profile.
4. Click at the location of each vertex in the profile; then right-click to finish drawing the profile.
Tip: | Be sure to draw the profile so that it does not intersect the line you drew to define the axis of revolution. |
To create a revolution by selecting a profile curve:
2. In the settings container, do the following:
♦Specify whether you want to create a new part or add the geometry to an existing part or ground.
♦Set Create by Picking to Curve.
♦Select Analytical to create the revolution using the analytical method. Clear to use the non-analytical method.
3. Click two points that define the axis about which Adams View revolves the profile.
4. Select construction geometry defining the profile curve.