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Planning a hinge model

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The hinge model will be movable. Any Pro-desktop model that has moving parts needs to be made of separate files assembled together. This model will use two parts, that means two files.

You will need :

  • A Hinge
  • A ruler
  • Pencil & paper for rough sketches.
  • time to think carefully about it (especially the view you are working on).
 
     
 
Start in roughly this order:
1
 Your hinge model will need sketches made on 2 workplanes. Some workplanes may need more than one sketch on it.
Tools used:
 Start drawing the end view on one hinge. Draw a Circle and a rectangle drawing & delete segment
 Resize each shape so that it's the same as a real hinge. Sketch dimension
2
  Extrude for the length of the hinge plate Extrusion
3
  On a perpendicular workplane, draw screw holes. construction line, equal radius constraint
4
  Extrude to cut out the holes extrude>subtract material
5
 Draw cutouts so that the hinges fit together rectangles & colinear constraint
6
 Assemble the two components assembly, mating & centre axis
7
 Change the cutouts for the other half select lines
8 Checking the work.  

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 When things go wrong. check here. checklist
 
     
  the process can be followed in different orders most of the time. Some steps require another page to be completed first.
  
  {Consider reading the ProDesktop files, the most recent version has quite well written Help documents. Just press F1 in the program and it opens.}