![]() Then I just added fillets to all of its corners using the "fillet"-tool. First I drew the initial rectangle with the "rectangle"-tool, since I used the grid I could size it very easily to my desired dimensions. This tool allows you to give an exact radius for the fillet, so I matched the radii to the drawing.Īfter that I had to create the top part of the Key, which was done exactly like the bottom. Then I rounded off all of the corners with the "fillet"-tool. Which of course were taken from the technical drawing I made earlier. To have the dimensions correct, I typed in the exact measurements. I already made the technical drawing of my Key, so now I transfer it to the 3D space.įirst of all, I created a new sketch and with the rectangle tool I drew out my initial shape. Now on to the 3D-Design part of this weeks assignment. Then my design looked like the picture below shows and I was done with the 2D-Design part of this weeks assignment! After that, I had to select all my measurements (by leftclick-dragging left) and change their layer via the "attributes" window. This requered me to add a new layer and change its color to yellow. I repeated this process for all of the edges of my design until it looked like the picture below.īut I noticed, that the readability of the drawing was suffering, so I decided to change the color of all my measurements to yellow. The tool is easy to use, you just have to specify two points and it creates a lable with the distance of those points, which you can then move wherever you want. For that I used the "aligned" measure tool together with "endpoint snapping". To make my design viable as a technical drawing, I had to add the relevant measurements. This is straight forward as well, since I also only used the "2 Points" line tool, basic gridsnapping and the "fillet" tool. To actually create the arc, I now had to select a starting point, a point which basically determined the radius of my arc and an ending point.Īt this point, the only view left to do was the sideview. Since I already added fillets, I couldn't use the "gridsnap" anymore so I changed it to the "endpoint-snap". I didn't want a flat top though, so I deleted the top edge of my design and used the "3 Point arc"- tool, to create a concave rounding at the top of the key. The same functions were used to create it as you can see.įirst I drew out the sketch with the "2 Points" tool and then I added fillets to the corners. Then I could move on to creating the front view of my key. To create it, I again used the "2 Points" function in conjunction with the "gridsnap".Īfter that I needed to round the corners of the top part, which I did exactly like before by using the "fillet" tool. ![]() Since the top part of the key is supposed to be smaller than the bottom part, you can see its outline in the technical drawing. I decided to have a radius of 2mm for the top corners and a radius of 1mm for the bottom ones. ![]() It works pretty self explanatory as you just have to select the two edges where you want your fillet to be. Then I used the "fillet"-tool to round off the corners of my design. That way it was very easy to create my starting-quad which has a width and length of 20mm. Furthermore I enabled the "Gridsnapping"-feature so my lines were accurate. To do that, I used the simple "2 Points" tool, to create a line between to points. I had to start somewhere so I decided to map out the top view of the key as a first step. I do all of the following things in the software "LibreCAD".
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