Create blocks from single or multiple sketch entities. With blocks, you can quickly develop conceptual models of mechanisms or linkages. These models ultimately include several parts that pivot, slide, or rotate.
The benefit of modeling mechanisms with layout sketches is the speed and flexibility with which designers can experiment with design variations.
Blocks allow you to:
Create layout sketches using a minimum number of dimensions and relations.
Freeze a subset of entities in a sketch to manipulate them as a single entity.
Manage complex sketches.
Edit all instances of blocks simultaneously.
Create assembly components from layout sketches.
Blocks include two lessons:
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Four Bar Linkage. Basic blocks lesson with a rotating motion. |
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Crane. Advanced lesson with rotation and sliding motion. The lesson covers many of the functions available with blocks and shows how to convert selected blocks into assembly components. |
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bar linkage lesson
