Pro E Creating a Swept Blend
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Creating a Swept Blend Product: Pro/ENGINEER Release: Wildfire 5.0 Module: FEATURE, SKETCHER Overview This technique demonstrates how to create a swept blend feature. The document is broken into three tasks:
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Creating a Swept Blend
Product: Pro/ENGINEER
Release: Wildfire 5.0
Module: FEATURE, SKETCHER
Overview
This technique demonstrates how to create a swept blend feature.
The document is broken into three tasks:
Task 1 - Create an Offset Datum Plane
Task 2 - Sketch the Trajectory of the Sweep
Task 3 - Sketch the Sweep Sections
Task 1 - Create an Offset Datum Plane
1. Open the part file [cylinder.prt].
2. Start the Datum Plane Tool , create a datum plane offset at 1 unit from the TOP datum
plane.
(Change the name from DTM1 to OFFSET_PLANE)
The offset datum plane is created to be used as the sketching plane in Task 2.
Task 2 - Sketch the Trajectory of the Sweep
1. Start the Swept Blend tool.
2. With the dashboard still open, start the Sketch tool, to sketch the trajectory of the sweep.
3. In the Sketch Setup window, select the OFFSET_PLANE datum plane as the sketching plane >
Sketch.
4. In Sketcher select Use > Single, and then select the bottom edge of the part as the sweep
trajectory. Finish the sketch and exit Sketcher by clicking Done .
5. Click Resume Feature to resume the Swept Blend feature creation.
The sections created in Task 3 will follow the trajectory sketched in this task.
Task 3 - Sketch the Sweep Sections
1. In the Swept Blend dashboard, click on the Sections tab.
2. Select the green cross at the trajectory start point > Sketch, to define the first section.
3. In Sketcher select Line and create the sketch as shown. Finish the sketch and exit Sketcher by
clicking Done .
4. Now in the Sections tab, click on Insert and then select the green cross at the end point of the
trajectory > Sketch.
5. In Sketcher select Line and create the sketch as shown.
6. Be sure that the start point is in the correct position. Select the bottom vertex of the sketch, right-
click > Start Point.
7. Finish the sketch and exit Sketcher by clicking Done .
8. After exiting Sketcher, click on Create a Solid from the dashboard.
9. Then finish the Swept Blend feature by clicking Complete Feature .
