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Spring AssemblyA. Create New Assembly.Step 1. Click File Menu > New, click Assembly and OK.

Step 2. Click Cancel in the Property Manager, Fig. 1.

B. Enable Toolbox Browser.Step 1. If necessary, turn on Toolbox Browser, click Tools Menu > Add-

Ins.

Step 2. Check SolidWorks Toolbox Browser to place a check in the check box, then click OK, Fig. 1.

C. Design Library.Step 1. Click the Design Library tab in the Task Pane (right side of drawing area), Fig. 2.

Step 2. Expand the ToolboxExpand Ansi Inch folder Expand Bolts and Screws folder Expand

Click Hex Head folder

Step 3. In the lower pane, right click Hex Finished Bolt and click Insert into Assembly, Fig. 2.

Step 4. In the Property Manager, set: Size to 1/2-13 Fig. 3 Length to 2.5 click OK .

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Step 5. Over in the Task Pane, Close Bolts and Screws folder , Fig. 5 Expand Nuts folder Click Hex Nuts

Step 6. In the lower pane, click Hex Nut, Fig. 5 and drag nut onto the shaft of the bolt, Fig. 6. When the nut snaps into bolt and the pointer (cursor)changes to concentric

mate

changes to concentric

, release the nut.

Step 7. When done, click OK Step 7. When done, click OK and Cancel .

Step 8. Click Zoom to Fit(F) on the View toolbar.

Step 9. Grab the nut and slide it off the bolt, Fig. 8.

D. Save as "SPRING ASSEMBLY".Step 1. Click File Menu > Save As.

Step 2. Key-in SPRING ASSEMBLY for the fi lename and press ENTER.

E. Insert Spring.

Step 1. Click Insert Components on the Assembly toolbar.

Step 2. Click Browse in the Property Manager.

Step 3. Select SPRING fi le and click Open.

Step 4. Place Spring as positioned in Fig. 8.

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Release nutwhen cursorchanges to

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F. Mate: Screw.

Step 1. Click Mate on the Assembly toolbar.

Step 2. Click cylindrical face of Bolt shaft and cylindrical inside face of Nut hole, Fig. 9.

Step 3. In the Mate Property Manager: expand Mechanical Mates, Fig. 10

select Screw select Revolutions/in set Revolution to 20

uncheck Reverse (the rotation arrow should point clockwise around the bolt head),Fig. 11

click OK

Step 4. Click OK in the Property Manager.

Step 5. Spin nut on bolt and check out the screw mate threads.

G. Mates: Bolt and Spring.

Step 1. Click Mate

G. Mates: Bolt and Spring.

on the Assembly toolbar.

Step 2. Click line of Spring sketch and cylindrical face of Bolt shaft, Fig. 12.

Step 3. Click Concentric mate in Mate pop-up

toolbar and Add/Finish Mate

mate in Mate pop-up

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and Fig. 14.

Step 4. Click inside face of Bolt head, Fig. 15.

Step 5. Expand the Design Tree (click +) in the top left corner of the draw-ing area, Fig. 16.

Step 6. Expand SPRING and click Right (plane), Fig. 16.

Step 7. Click Add/Finish Mate Step 7. Click Add/Finish Mate

in Mate pop-up toolbar to add a Coin-cident mate, Fig. 17.

Step 8. Click inside face of Step 8. Click inside face of Step 8. ClickBolt head, Fig. 18.

Step 9. Rotate view to view inside face of Nut as shown in Fig. 19. To rotate, hold down middle mouse button (wheel) and drag.

Step 10. Click inside face of NutStep 10. Click inside face of NutStep 10. Click , Fig. 19.

Step 11. Click Distance in Mate pop-up, Fig. 20. Set distance to 1.9 and click Add/Finsh Mate

to add the Distance mate.

Step 12. Click OK in the Property Manager.

Step 13. Save. Use Ctrl-S.

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H. Coincident Relation: Line Endpoint and Nut Edge. Step 1. Click line of Spring sketch in the drawing and

click Edit Sketch

line of Spring sketch

on the Content menu,Fig. 22.

Step 2. Ctrl click endpoint of line closest to Nut and edge of nut to select both. To Ctrl click, click the endpoint and hold down Ctrl key and the edge of Nut, Fig. 23.

Step 3. Click Make Coincident on the Content menu, Fig. 23.

Step 4. Click Edit Component on the Sketch toolbar to turn off edit component and return to the assembly fi le.

Step 5. Save. Use Ctrl-S.

I. Hide Sketch1.Step 1. Click line of spring sketch in the drawing and

click Hide line of spring sketch

on the Content menu, Fig. 24.

J. Motion Study.Step 1. Click the Motion Study tab at bottom of the display, Fig. 25.

Step 2. Drag the Time Bar to 4 seconds, Fig. 25. The Time Bar is the gray vertical line at 0 sec-onds.

Step 3. Expand Mates in the Motion Study tree, Fig. 25.

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Step 4. Right click Distance1 Mate and click Edit Dimension, Fig. 26.

Step 5. Key in .95 in the Modify box, Fig. 27 and Fig. 28. Click OK

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Step 6. Drag the Time Bar to 8 seconds, Fig. 29.

Step 7. Right click Distance1 Mate and click Edit Di-mension, Fig. 29.

Step 8. Key in 1.9 and click OK Step 8. Key in .

Step 9. Click Play in Motion Manager toolbar, Fig. 32.

Step 10. Click down arrow next

to Playback Normal , click Loop

and Play

Playback Normal

, Fig. 32. Click Stop

Loop

.

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Drag Timebarfrom here

To 8 seconds

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K. Create Animation Movie.

Step 1. To save Motion Study as a movie fi le (AVI), click Save Animation in the Motion Manager toolbar, Fig. 33.

Step 2. In a fi le name in the Save Animation to File dialog box. Also, the frames per second can be controlled. The more frames the larger the fi le size. Click Save. Click OK in the Video Compression dialog box.

Step 3. Click the Model tab at bottom of the display return to model and turn off Mo-tion Study, Fig. 33.

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