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A Pro/DESKTOP Tutorial (Module 13b)		 [Radio]
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Section 2: Assembling the radio
Use the previously-drawn ‘casing’ file or the sample file ‘radio’ in this exercise. All the components are to scale and can be used to visualise the TEP radio designs accurately. (It is however possible to re-scale each of the components if you have modified the radio and are using non standard components.)

Adding the Speaker
  1. Open the ‘casing’ or ‘Radioc’
  2. From the Assembly menu choose Add Component
  3. Find the file ‘Speaker1’ from the dialogue box.

The speaker has now has to be position in the correct location

[Figure 12]
Fig 12


  1. To align the speaker correctly with the hole
  2. Choose the Select Edges [Select Edges button] tool select the edge of the large hole so that a red circle appears
  3. Hold down the Shift key on the keyboard and select the rim of the speaker it will also turn red
  4. With both are selected from the Assembly menu choose Centre axis which will align the centres of the two components.
  5. Choose the Select Faces [Select Faces button] tool
  6. Select the faces of the surfaces which are to be joined (the flat front lip of the speaker and the inside face of the speaker casing)
  7. Use the arrow keys on the keyboard to rotate the casing through 180 degrees.
  8. From the Assembly menu choose Mate Planes (If you had successfully selected the right edges the speaker should have turned around and be aligned to the inside face)
  9. From the View menu choose Isometric
  10. For a complete view of the radio
  11. Right button click in the drawing window and from the pop-up menu and select Autoscale (this scales all the components in one view).
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