Computer Aided Design
My Box
Front & Back Piece
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- Create a new component and sketch on the XZ plane
- Draw a rectangle from origin and dimension it using parameters
- Draw a vertical construction line on the left side and 2 horizontal ones below. Dimension it to the thickness parameter and draw 2 rectangles between the two lines below and one between the left side and the vertical line. Dimension the length of the rectangles according to the previous design. This is to make the tabs.
- Mirror the vertical tab to the right side.
- Extrude the rectangle with the thickness parameter excluding the tabs.
Left & Right Side
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- Create a new component and sketch on the left face of the front component.
- Draw a rectangle and constraint the sides using collinear tool and dimension it accordingly using parameters.
- Add 2 circles from the left edge of the rectangle with the midpoint of the bigger circle measured at width/6 and the smaller one being thickness*5
- Repeat like the previous step on the making of the tabs except for the sides as we can just use the Combine tool.
- Extrude by thickness parameter
- Mirror the front and side by first creating a midplane Construct > Midplane on each sides and mirroring them
- Use Combine tool to easily produce the tabs for the side
Top
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- Creat new component and sketch on the face of any sides. For me, i sketched on the top of the left side.
- Draw a rectangle and collinear constraint it to the sides extrude down by thickness.
- Use Combine tool and combine the top with the sides.
- Once done, extrude the previous circle of the sides and join it with the top piece. The distance is the length parameter.
Bottom
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- Create new component and sketch on any bottome face of any tabs.
- Draw a rectangle and constraint it using collinear.
- Extrude it using thickness parameter.
- Combine the bottom to the sides for th tabs
Final Product Before and After Parameters
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