(Some left over construction lines to clean up, 3 clicks in the structure dialog and press the delete key.). click revolve helix, click the pitch entry field and type 1.25, drag right.ĭone. (much easier to do than describe.) 6 clicks.Ĭlick pull tool Click the face of the triangle. Ĭlick the line tool, overdraw the angled construction lines and connect the ends of the arc to the horizontal of the top edge of the section and close the rounded equilateral triangle. A weird thing popped up and a cursor that seems to be inviting me to left-click. (the 1 appears on the cursor) try typing. Try mousing over it (ithighlights) Try typing. Hit ^Z, and that circle disappears but so does the sizing, its back to the random size but no dimension to click on (not that that worked anyway), so how do I size it? I caught the '3' key and got a 123 circle. Once more to set a random size of circle.ĭamn. (What if I want it offset from the origin?) When you have finished editing dimensions, do one of the following:Ĭlick mouse button 2 anywhere in the Abaqus/CAE window.Ĭlick the cancel button in the prompt area.Once more for the centre of the circle. To edit more dimensions, repeat the above steps beginning with Step 2. If your edits result in an overconstraint, the conflicting constraints, dimensions, and parameters are indicated in magenta (for more information, see Fully constrained geometry). When you are finished, click Apply in the Edit Dimension dialog box to update the sketch.Ībaqus/CAE updates the dimension and geometry as required. For more information, see Adding and editing parameters. Toggle Reference to switch between a standard dimension whose value is used to control the sketch geometry and a reference dimension that reads the current value from the geometry.Ĭlick f(x) to associate the dimension with a new parameter or to edit a previously associated parameter.Ībaqus/CAE opens the Parameter Manager for editing. You cannot edit the value field for reference dimensions or for parameters whose values are defined using an equation. For a diagram of the tools in the Sketcher toolbox, see The Sketcher tools.Ībaqus/CAE displays prompts in the prompt area to guide you through the procedure.Ībaqus/CAE highlights the selected dimension and opens the Edit Dimension dialog box. For more information on constraints, dimensions, and parameters, see Controlling sketch geometry.Ĭonstraining, dimensioning, and parameterizing a sketchįrom the tools in the Sketcher toolbox, select the dimension modification tool. Likewise, if a dimension is associated with a parameter, editing its value will change the value of all the parameters that refer to it. For example, if a radius has an equal radius constraint, editing the radius dimension will change all of the constrained radii. The effects of modifying a dimension depend on how the dimension is used in the sketch. Parameters control Sketcher geometry by defining relationships between different pieces of geometry, including reference geometry. Reference dimensions indicate quantities whose values are controlled elsewhere in the same sketch or dimensions of reference geometry that are controlled in another sketch.Īssociate the dimension with a parameter. Changing a dimension value modifies the associated Sketcher geometry.ĭesignate the dimension as a reference dimension. You can edit any dimension in a sketch as follows:Ĭhange the dimension value. Dimensions in Abaqus/CAE are used to precisely control sizes and distances, to annotate reference values, and to create parameters that are, in turn, used to define equations relating different pieces of geometry.
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