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A Pro/DESKTOP Tutorial (Module 11)		 [BAe Aircraft]
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Creating components

[Figure 1]
Fig 1.


This tutorial creates the individual aircraft components, drawn to scale in metres. The components will be assembled to make the basic shape of a concept aircraft. The style of the tutorial assumes the user has gained a basic understanding of single part modelling.

  1. Open Pro/DESKTOP
  2. From the File menu select New
  3. Choose Design
  4. Select OK
  5. Maximise the screens
  6. From the Tools menu choose Options
  7. In the Options dialogue box change the Model Units to Metres.

Drawing the FUSELAGE

[Figure 2]
Fig 2. The fuselage


  1. Choose the Select Workplanes [Select Workplanes button] tool.
  2. Select one of the Vertical plane (The plane turns red)
  3. From the Workplane menu choose New Sketch.
  4. Select OK (to accept the default name)
  5. With the Create Circle [Create Circle button] tool draw a circle from the centre of the green arrow
  6. Double click on the circle to select it
  7. In the Properties box set the radius at 1.75 metres. Centre (0.0). Due to the size the circle is not visible.
  8. Right click with the mouse button
  9. From the View menu choose Autoscale to see the circle
  10. Using the Extrude Profile [Extrude Profile button] tool to extrude the circle, below workplane and add material, set the distance to 38 metres.
  11. From the menu choose Autoscale to see the cylinder
  12. From the File menu choose Save the design as FUSELAGE.
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