Introduction Toy Truck Design Project

Objectives of This Tutorial

Orientation To SolidWorks

1.   Page Information

2.   Creating part file and changing design units to IPS

3.   Orientation to the SolidWorks screen and drawing billet sketch with rectangle tool.

4.   Dimensioning sketch to 12" x 3" for billet size.

5.   Extruding thickness of the 2" x 4" billet and putting 1/8" round fillet on edges.

6.   Changing the material type from maple to pine and how to change direction of grain of the texture.

7.   Saving part as a pine billet file.

8.   Saving as the pickup project.

9.   Rendered Image of Toy Truck

10.  Design Objective - Showing a Previously Created Toy Truck Project

11.  Goal of project...the end in mind.

12.  Creating the outer sketch for cutting out the trucks from the billet.

13.  Extrude cutting a hole through the blocks to draw the toy trucks.

14.  Orientation to the cutter being used from Amazon.com

15.  Setting up horizontal sketch lines for designing cars.

16.  Placing second horizontal set of centerlines for proper spacing for end mill cutter.

17.  Dimensioning second set of horizontal center lines.

18.  Placing vertical center line with dynamic mirror.

19.  Part 1 - Placing bottom sketch of bottom pickup trucks.

20.  Part 2 - Drawing the top part of the pickup truck sketch.

21.  Part 3 - Bottom trucks sketch adjustments.

22.  Part 4 - Bottom trucks - minor sketch adjustment and initial dimensions.

23.  Part 5 - Bottom Trucks - Anchoring a point to create a better dimension.

24.  Part 6 - Bottom Trucks - Dimensioning the front bumper and wheel well.

25.  Part 7 - Bottom truck - Sketch of truck adjustments..."eyeballing" the sketch.

26.  Part 8 - Defining the vertical dimensions of the bottom pickups and the tailgate off centerline.

27.  Part 9 - Bottom trucks - Summary overview of dimensions to this point.

28.  Part 10 - Bottom trucks - Filleting or "rounding the corners of the bottom truck".

29.  Part 11 - Bottom truck - filleting considerations and how to deal with corners that will not fillet.

30.  Part 12 - Bottom truck - finalizing fillets and finding an error in the sketch from filleting.

31.  Diagnosing errors on the sketch and fixing them in SolidWorks.

32.  Part 13 - Bottom truck - Start to fillet the right side truck.

33.  Part 14 - Bottom truck - Extrude Boss/Base bottom truck sketch.

34.  Part 15 - Bottom truck - House cleaning, turning off reference sketches and design review.

35.  Part 1 - Top truck - Setting planar to back side in order to draw sketch on the bottom for ease of design.

36.  Part 2 - Bottom truck - placing horizontal layout sketch center lines.

37.  Part 3 - Bottom truck - dimensioning the sketch center lines for accurate milling considerations.

38.  Part 4 - Adding two additional infinite horizontal lines for layout of upper truck sketches.

39.  Part 5 - Top trucks - renaming the layout sketch for the upper truck.

40.  Part 6 - Top truck - Adding dynamic mirror to the vertical center line.

41.  Part 7 - Top truck - Adding the bottom lines to the top trucks.

42.  Part 8 - Top truck - Drawing the top sketch of the top trucks.

43.  Part 9 - Top trucks - Correcting a sketch problems and milling consideration discussion.

45.  Part 10 - Toy truck - Setting the axle hub dimensions at .375 inch.

46.  Part 11 - Toy truck - Review of the additional dimensions placed on the bottom of the top sketch.

47.  Part 12 - Top truck - Adding fillets to the top truck sketch.

48.  Part 13 - Top truck - Finishing the fillets and avoiding potential errors with the fillet command.

49.  Part 14 - Top truck - Extrude base/boss of the top sketch of the pickup trucks.

50.  Part 1 - Window design - Designing the windows of the bottom trucks.

51.  Part 2 - Window design - Drawing a straight slot for the lower windows.

52.  Part 3 - Window design - Deleting relationships and keeping the symmetric relationship for mirror dimensions.

53.  Part 4 - Window design - Further dimensioning the window slot for the lower pickup trucks.

54.  Part 5 - Window design - Bottom pickup truck window extrude cut out of windows.

55.  Part 6 - Window design - Adding the centerline with dynamic mirror of the top truck windows.

56.  Part 7 - Window design - Selecting the top truck to design windows with thte hole slot.

57.  Part 8 - Window design - Placing window slots for cab over truck.

58.  Part 9 - Window design - Rebuilding the top truck window slots and opening the Relations Command.

59.  Part 10 - Window design - Deleting just the coincident relationship and adding a dimension.

60.  Part 11 - Window Design - Adding top of window dimension for the top truck slotted windows.

61.  Part 12 - Window design - Extrude Cut for the slotted windows of the top windows.

62.  Part 13 - Window design - Turning sketch lines to transparent to better see the windows and less confusion.

63.  Part 1 - Axle holes - Setting planar to side for designing the axle holes.

64.  Part 2 - Axle holes - Designing front and rear of first truck axle hole radius.

65.  Part 3 - Axle holes - Extrude Cut for bottom truck axle holes.

66.  Part 4 - Axle holes - Dimensioning the axle holes distance from bottom of truck.

67.  Part 5 - Axle hole - Consistent dimensioning of axle holes for later cnc milling.

68.  Part 6 - Axle holes - Completing axle hole process for the top trucks.

69.  Part 1 - Wheel cut outs - Drawing the arc for the first wheel well cut out using arc by center point command.

70.  Part 2 - Wheel cut outs - Dimensioning the wheel cut out arc to .6".

71.  Part 3 - Wheel cut outs - Drawing rear sketch for the cut out of the rear fender well of the lower pickup truck.

72.  Part 4 - Wheel cut outs - Completing all wheel cut outs for left side of all trucks and Extrude Cut for first sketch.

73.  Part 5 - Wheel cut outs - Extrude cut of the last sketch for wheel cut outs and moving to the opposite side of truck.

74.  Part 6 - Wheel well cut outs - Review of wheel well cut outs for the back side of the trucks.

75.  Part 1 - SAE #8 Washer - Review and saving truck part file.

76.  Part 2 - SAE #8 Washer - Starting to create new file for SAE #8 washer.

77.  Part 3 - SAE #8 Washer - Setting document properties for IPS.

78.  Part 4 - SAE #8 Washer - Reviewing vendor site for SAE#8 washer size.

79.  Part 5 - SAE #8 Washer - Drawing the radius for the outside circle of washer.

80.  Part 6 - SAE #8 Washer - Extrude base/boss and setting the properties to hot steel.

81.  Part 7 - SAE #8 Washer - Setting 3/16" radius on ID for washer.

82.  Part 8 - SAE #8 Washer - Extrude cut of ID for SAE#8 washer.

83.  Part 1 - Wheel Design - Creating new file.

84.  Part 2 - Wheel Design - Setting the size of the wheel to that of a US quarter at .952.

85.  Part 3 - Wheel Design - Extrude base/boss of wheel to .25" and setting material properties to maple.

86.  Part 4 - Wheel Design - Verifying the diameter of the truck axle size.

87.  Part 5 - Wheel Design - Verifying the diameter of the axle size on the truck part model.

88.  Part 6 - Wheel Design - Setting the radius to .06250 for the axle opening on the wheel.

89.  Part 7 - Wheel Design - Extrude cut through wheel.

90.  Part 8 - Wheel Design - Starting to draw the arc for the mag wheel design.

91.  Part 9 - Wheel Design - Dimensioning the initial arc to be .01 over the size of the nut.

92.  Part 10 - Wheel Design - Drawing the cutout diagonal lines from the center of the wheel.

93.  Part 11 - Wheel Design - Setting the angle dimension to 35 degrees for the mag wheel cut out.

94.  Part 12 - Wheel Design - Designing the second arc to for the mag wheel cut out and rebuild.

95.  Part 13 - Wheel Design - Setting the outside arc for the tire design on the mag wheel cut out.

96.  Part 14 - Wheel Design - Using the Trim entities and power trim command to clean up wheel cut out.

97.  Part 15 - Wheel Design - Preparing the sketch to be circular pattern copied.

98.  Part 16 - Wheel Design - Turning on the temporary axes and starting the circular pattern command.

99.  Part 17 - Wheel Design - Setting the circular pattern to 5 cut outs for the mag wheel.

100.  Part 18 - Wheel Design - CNC versus laser engraving considerations and initial extrude cut of mag wheel.

101.  Part 19 - Wheel Design - Making the extrude cut smaller on the wheel design.

102.  Part 20 - Wheel Design - Creating the outer circle to define the rim of the wheel.

103.  Part 21 - Wheel Design - Super small extrude cut for the wheel design and definition of the wheel.

104.  Part 22 - Wheel Design - Showing wheel for consideration to laser engrave later in Adobe Illustrator.

105.  Part 23 - Wheel Design - Saving the wheel for later use in the toy truck assembly.

106.  Part 1 - Creating Single Truck Part - Opening and saving to a new file from the four truck part file.

107.  Part 2 - Creating Single Truck Part - Creating the first sketch for the first cut out...part 1.

108.  Part 3 - Creating Single Truck Part - Completing the first sketch for the first cut out.

109.  Part 4 - Creating Single Truck Part - Drawing the second sketch for the extrude cut.

110.  Part 5 - Creating Single Truck Part - The extrude cut for the final sketch cut out of the truck.

111.  Part 6 - Creating Single Truck Part - Creating the fillets for rounding the bumpers.

112.  Part 7 - Creating Single Truck Part - Creating the final rear fillets for rounding the bumpers.

113.  Part 8 - Creating Single Truck Part - Orientating the cut out truck model and saving the file.

114.  Part 1 - Creating Truck Assembly - Creating new file for assembly, opening the as wheel first.

115.  Part 2 - Creating Truck Assembly - Creating new file for assembly from wheel file and placing wheel in assembly.

116.  Part 3 - Creating Truck Assembly - Placing the SAE#8 washer file in the assembly

117.  Part 4 - Creating Truck Assembly - Making a coincident and concentric mates with wheel and washer.

118.  Part 5 - Creating Truck Assembly - Mating the washer and the truck wheel well coincident.

119.  Part 6 - Creating Truck Assembly - Mating the truck body and the wheel concentric.

120.  Part 7 - Creating Truck Assembly - Rotating the truck around to be horizontal, step 1.

121.  Part 8 - Creating Truck Assembly - Rotating the truck around to be horizontal, step 2.

122.  Part 9 - Creating Truck Assembly - Placing the second SAE#8 washer for right front wheel.

123.  Part 10- Creating Truck Assembly - Making a coincident mate with right washer to right wheel wheel.

124.  Part 11 - Creating Truck Assembly - Mating concentric the right washer and the right axle wheel hole.

125.  Part 12 - Creating Truck Assembly - Placing the right truck wheel in the assembly file.

126.  Part 13 - Creating Truck Assembly - Making a concentric mate with right wheel and right washer.

127.  Part 14 - Creating Truck Assembly - Fixing the bad angle mate on the right front wheel.

128.  Part 15 - Creating Truck Assembly - Remating the wheel face with the right SAE#8 washer.

129.  Part 16 - Creating Truck Assembly - Saving truck assembly file.

130.  Part 17 - Creating Truck Assembly - Saving and closing all files to save system resources.

131.  Part 18 - Wheel Design - CNC versus laser engraving considerations and initial extrude cut of mag wheel.

132.  Part 19 - Wheel Design - Design change needed due to supply concerns.

133.  Part 1 - Axle Opening Redesign - Opening cut out truck file.

134.  Part 2 - Axle Opening Redesign - Starting to edit the axle hole sketch.

135.  Part 3 - Axle Opening Redesign - Changing the axle diameter to 1/4" from 1/8".

136.  Part 4 - Axle Opening Redesign - Review of the changes on the axle openings for the bottom trucks.

137.  Part 5 - Axle Opening Redesign - Review of the changes on the axle openings and manufacturing considerations.

138.  Part 6 - Axle Opening Redesign - Changing the axle opening for the wheel.

139.  Part 7 - Axle Opening Redesign - Opening cut out file of truck and making same changes from 1/8" to 1/4" for axle openings.

140.  Part 8 - Axle Opening Redesign - Using the "rollback" feature to edit a feature sketch for axle hole.

141.  Part 9 - Axle Opening Redesign - Making the 1/8" to 1/4" changes on the axle opening size.

142.  Part 10 - Axle Opening Redesign - Rolling forward the sketch to consider later cab over truck designs.

143.  Part 11 - Axle Opening Redesign - Reopening the wheel assembly to see axle diameter changes in the design.

144.  Part 12 - Axle Opening Redesign - Reviewing the design to see the changes that are needed for the SAE#8 washer.

145.  Part 1 - SAE#8 Washer Change - SAE#10 design specifications and initiating changes in the sizes.

146.  Part 2 - SAE#8 Washer Change - Editting the sizes and changing the inside and outside dimensions of washer.

147.  Part 3 - SAE#8 Washer Change - Saving changes into new file SAE#10 and assembly considerations.

148.  Part 4 - SAE#8 Washer Change - Saving the change to SAE#10 and later deleting the SAE#8 from file folder.

149.  Part 5 - SAE#8 Washer Change - Rebuilding the assembly model to reflect deleting the SAE#8 and then adding the SAE#10 washer.

150.  Part 1 - Adding all Wheels to Truck Assembly - Mating last wheel and using flip command for wheel to turn 180 degrees.

151.  Part 2 - Adding all Wheels to Truck Assembly - Making the last wheel in truck assembly concentric.

152.  Part 1 - Axle Design - Measuring the wheels on the truck assembly to get axle length of axle parameters.

153.  Part 2 - Axle Design - Creating the new file for the axle and starting the axle sketch.

154.  Part 3 - Axle Design - Extrude Boss/Base of axle or dowel rod sketch.

155.  Part 4 - Axle Design - Changing the material type and direction of the material the texture for the axle.

156.  Part 5 - Axle Design - Placing the dowel rod axle in the truck assembly file.

157.  Part 6 - Axle Design - Mating the axle dowel rod coincident to the outside edge of the face of the wheel.

158.  Part 7 - Axle Design - Checking to see if the face of the axle dowel rod is coincident with the wheel face.

159.  Part 8 - Mating concentric the wheel axle opening to the edge of the axle dowel rod.

160.  Part 9 - Axle Design - Verifying the axle mate to the outside edge of the wheel face.

161.  Part 10 - Axle Design - Rotating the truck assembly model to plan for editting the axle wheel size.

162.  Part 11 - Axle Design - Opening the axle dowel rod part and opening the extrude boss/base feature to edit the feature.

163.  Part 12 - Axle Design - Adding .125" to the length of the extrude boss/base feature.

164.  Part 13 - Axle Design - Rebuilding the model and reviewing the newly changed axle in the truck assembly.

165.  Part 14 - Axle Design - In the assembly, opening the specific mate to edit to center the axle dowel rod with the truck.

166.  Part 15 - Axle Design - Modifying the axle coincident mate dimesion to center axle and see axle is to long.

167.  Part 16 - Axle Design - How to edit the axle part from within the truck assembly.

168.  Part 17 - Axle Design - Discussing considerations as to the length of the axle and having play so the axle can turn.

169.  Part 18 - Axle Design - Considering future design needs with a hub cap on the axle end.

170.  Part 19 - Axle Design - Subtracting .0625 from axle length and observing the need to edit coincident mate.

171.  Part 20 - Axle Design - Exiting the part edit in the assembly and then editing the axle to truck coincident mate.

172.  Part 21 - Axle Design - Final considerations on the axle design and how it fits on the truck assembly.

173.  Part 1 - Hub Cap Design - Saving and closing out all the files from the axle design process.

174.  Part 2 - Hub Cap Design - Saving and renaming the axle file to hub cap...this saves time.

175.  Part 3 - Hub Cap Design - Changing the sketch in the hub cap file to 5/16".

176.  Part 4 - Hub Cap Design - Modifying the length of the dowel rod to 1/8".

177.  Part 5 - Hub Cap Design - Fixing the axle from hub cap in the truck assembly and then placing the new hub cap in the assembly.

178.  Part 6 - Hub Cap Design - Mating the hub cap to the axle by using a coincident mate.

179.  Part 7 - Hub Cap Design - Mating the hub cap to the axle concentric.

180.  Part 8 - Hub Cap Design - Review of the axle and hub cap mate.

181.  Part 9 - Hub Cap Design - Review of the completed mates of wheels and hub caps.

182.  Part 10 - Rendering Test - Sample Photoworks rendering by using Render Area Command.

183.  Part 11 - Rendering Test - Explaining Photoworks Studio options.

184.  Part 12 - Rendering Test - Design review of the Photoworks rendered truck.

185.  Part 13 - Rendering Test - Initial completed design of the truck assembly.

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