design top-down

[Max-C]

Good day to all,
I would like to begin to interface to this design method.
Can someone recommend video tutorials or books/ebooks that can be useful?

on youtube I found videos but very basic that only show the concept, I would like to have something more in-depth.

Thank you.

 

[CATSEGGIO]

any solidworks guide explains it very well, there is nothing complicatedhttp://help.solidworks.com/2014/ita...w.htm?id=f011387cd6614db49d5bbccec07874e8#pg0http://help.solidworks.com/2014/italian/solidworks/sldworks/c_design_methods.htm

 

[Max-C]

any solidworks guide explains it very well, there is nothing complicatedhttp://help.solidworks.com/2014/ita...w.htm?id=f011387cd6614db49d5bbccec07874e8#pg0http://help.solidworks.com/2014/italian/solidworks/sldworks/c_design_methods.htm

thanks for the links and for the interest.
I had already found them
"the fork of a motor can be modeled and dimensioned correctly so that it can keep the engine even when it is moved. solidworks automatically resizes the engine fork. this ability is particularly useful for parts such as forks, fixes and structures whose purpose is to keep other parts in the correct position. top-down design can also be used on certain functions (such as identification pins) of other bottom-up parts.
design of a copier can be illustrated in one schizzo di layout whose elements represent the pulleys, drums, belts and other components of the copier. 3d components are created according to this sketch. while moving or resize the elements in the sketch, solidworks will automatically move or resize the 3d components in the axieme. the speed and flexibility of the sketch allow you to try many versions of the design before building any 3d geometry and make many changes in a central location"

There's not something that explains how you do these functions. layout and top down did not find much on the net as explained above.. .
I also did a tutorial to understand the blocks but do not use the layout sketches. in fact I did not understand what they serve as (for all I know) same things can be done with a normal sketch

 

[marcof]

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design of a copier can be illustrated in one schizzo di layout...
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There's not something that explains how you do these functions. layout and top down did not find much on the net as explained above.. .

What do you mean you didn't find much? ?https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=layout+sketch+solidworkshttps://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=top+down+solidworksSurely you will not find the example of the copier, but the concepts are then the ones you see explained in the videos

 

[Max-C]

What do you mean you didn't find much? ?https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=layout+sketch+solidworkshttps://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=top+down+solidworksSurely you will not find the example of the copier, but the concepts are then the ones you see explained in the videos

Thank you.
But I still don't understand the difference between "Layout sketch" and "crash" as I said above a sw tutorial (advanced techniques-> sketches) realizes the same things but doesn't use the layout...

 

[meccanicamg]

the sketch of layout by definition is unique and on that you set everything. If you do the simple sketch you can do many, stop the plans and references and maybe it is not unique. in practical substance is equal, even if the layout sketch was introduced only by some releases

 

[Max-C]

the sketch of layout by definition is unique and on that you set everything. If you do the simple sketch you can do many, stop the plans and references and maybe it is not unique. in practical substance is equal, even if the layout sketch was introduced only by some releases

then the layout was born with the functions of "guide" to the axieme while the normal ones use them to create the various details right?

 

[meccanicamg]

Now as it now works as you described. if you are looking for the guide line you will find how to use the required modeling method

 

[Max-C]

Now as it now works as you described. if you are looking for the guide line you will find how to use the required modeling method

Thank you.

 

[edward]

I exhume the thread so I don't open another one:
I am at the beginning of a top-down design, I have to study two parts that I have in a set: a fixed and a mobile by rotation.
to study the shape to give to the mobile part I wanted to create layout sketches and let them move on test boards.
when I try to create blocks in the layout environment, using also converted curves from the mobile part, it does not allow me saying: "only blocks made by a line or arch can be made in a 3d sketch without tracing first on a plane." I hope I've been clear enough, I'm not practical with top-down design, where am I wrong?

 

[blubossa]

Hi.
Sincerely it is not very clear what you say....in any way if you want to study the behavior of a system you have to create a layout and then make sketches (lines, arches, circles) that represent your system, then make it blocks and make constraints to the sketches (a kind of assembly), and then to verify that the system functions....
if everything works you can turn the blocks into parts....

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[Nuovamacut]

Hey, Edward, I'll give you a call. this article on topdown design in solidworks It contains a video in which you roberto affanni, a technician of ours, explains its basics and operation through practical examples, I hope you are a car.

good design

 

[edward]

Hello blubossa,
Is it not clear why I have to resort to a "plant environment"? What gives me more than sketches together, even in them I can create blocks and verify the mechanisms I'm planning.

 

[blubossa]

Hello blubossa,
Is it not clear why I have to resort to a "plant environment"? What gives me more than sketches together, even in them I can create blocks and verify the mechanisms I'm planning.

Hi.
I think there are always different paths....it is necessary to check the behavior of the project when things get complicated....if solidworks suggests the use of the layouts obviously there will be a good reason....premetto that I am not a solidworks expert and that I am also studying it....maybe we wait for a clarification of some expert.

bb