Discover a step-by-step guide on constructing a unique work plane, called "Fork Top", and creating a sketch upon it. The article provides information about creating a rectangle sketch, giving it a name, and generating flanges using the Fusion tool.
Key Insights
- The article explains the process of creating a unique work plane named "Fork Top". This process involves selecting the generic name from the construction folder and changing it to the desired name.
- A rectangle sketch is created on this unique plane. This sketch is used as the starting point for sheet metal. The sketch is also renamed as "Fork Sketch" for easy identification.
- Using the Fusion tool, flanges are created from the rectangle sketch. The orientation is set to side two, and the flanges are extended to 120.
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Let's give this new plane a name. If we open up our construction folder and find it has a generic name, let's select it and we will call it Fork Top. Enter locks that in.
Now let's click away into nothing. So nothing is selected and now we can select Create Sketch. Now before we click anything, let's just hover over that Fork Top and notice that this is a unique plane.
Essentially, it's a work or construction plane at an angle. And the moment we click this, we'll be looking at our project at a bit of an angle. So let's go ahead and click it now.
We're looking down, but at an angle. So it can be a little bit confusing to work here, but to make it easier, let's go ahead and check the visibility for wheel two. We're going to hide it by clicking the little eyeball visibility symbol and that wheel will disappear for the moment.
Now it can be tricky to see, but that line from our Fork Angle Sketch is visible in this view. Now we want to project that forward to our current sketch. So under the Create menu, we're going to look for Project Include and click Project.
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And we'll click on that 20 millimeter line and say OK. And that will create a purple projected line. And that makes it easy to know where we are, because again, we're looking down, but at an angle, it's a little hard to tell where we are.
Now we can create our rectangle and that rectangle will be the starting point for our sheet metal. So let's go ahead and go to Line and start at the right side of that purple line. We'll click one time.
We'll go up 20 millimeters and click Enter. And now we will continue to draw a 40 × 40 square. So 40, Enter, click where we left off, and this time we'll go down 40.
Keep starting that line command going to the right now, 40, Enter. And before we finish this up, there's a Modify tool here. Under Modify, we can select Extend.
We can extend that original line. And now we have a 40 × 40 square. With that, we will go ahead and click the Finish Sketch.
And now go back to our home view. So what we're hoping for is a sketch that looks like this, essentially a rectangle that sits on top of our fork top construction plane. Now let's give it a name.
Currently it has a generic name and we will call this Fork. It's our Fork Sketch. We'll click Enter on that, and that's our fork.
Now we can go ahead and create our flange. So make sure we are in that sheet metal tab and we want to find Create and Flange. Now we want to select our edges or profiles.
We'll select this fork profile there. And we'll notice that Fusion wants to go up because the orientation is set to side one. Let's drop that down to side two because we started at the top of the fork.
We're going to work our way down. Let's go ahead and click OK. And now under that Create tab again, we can click Flange.
And this time we can select both the left and the right edges of the original flange and drag those down. How far? We want to go to 120. And click OK.
Now that looks pretty good, but let's turn our wheel two back on and make sure everything lines up. So there it is, we've got our fork. Our fork is lining up exactly with the center of that wheel hub and that's what we're looking for.
So it's a great time to go ahead and click that Save button.
