To create the profile sketch of the radio casing
Fig 2.
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- Choose the Create Rectangle
tool.
- Press hold and drag the cursor to create a rectangle. which is the same width as the workplane bounding box and to just under half way up the workplane. Release the mouse button to finish creating the rectangle.
- Choose the Constrain Separation
tool
- Move over a side of the rectangle (The selected line goes light blue)
- Select the line by clicking the left mouse button. (The line turns red)
- Select the opposite line, press, hold and drag the cursor to create the constraint outside the rectangle
- Repeat on the other two lines that make up the rectangle
- Double-click the left mouse button on the constraint to open the Properties dialogue window.
- Enter a length of 220mm and repeat for the other constraint to make the width 95mm
- Choose the Create Circle
tool
- Using the origin as the centre drag out a circle.
- Double click on the circle to bring up the Properties box
- In the dialogue box enter the radius dimension as 90mm
- Choose the Delete Line Segment
tool
- Select the unwanted portions of the lines to delete them, so producing the outline of the casing (Remember that if the wrong segment is deleted use Edit and Undo Delete)
- Go to File menu and Save use the name ‘casing’
- Go to File menu again and select Save Copy As.. and re-save as ‘back’.
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