[MBD Logo] Creating a single component design
A Pro/DESKTOP Tutorial (Module 1)		 [Van]
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This design exercise, using Pro/DESKTOP, develops a wooden toy vehicle, suitable for a young child, which has a passing resemblance to the vehicle, in which, a certain television personality (Postman Pat) delivers mail around the Yorkshire Dales.

The toy consists of a wooden body made from a single piece if wood, four wooden wheels, which are on wooden axles, pass through holes in the body.


Introduction
The first activity constructs the body of the wooden toy van.

This module explores the following features of Pro/DESKTOP:

  • the Pro/DESKTOP window and its main features;

  • creating a sketch;

  • the idea of workplanes on which sketches are created;

  • how to constrain a sketch using the constraint tools;

  • how to use features to turn a sketch into a representation of a 3D object;

The later modules show how to modify the design to make it more realistic and also add other components, the wheels and axles, to complete the design.

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