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12
Creating Parts
This tutorial continues with techniques you learned in
previous lessons. You use sketches to create features.
You position standard features, such as holes, and then
combine them to create a part. You analyze your design
and build a model so that you can easily incorporate
changes. This is a problem-solving process that you
can apply to any parts you create using Autodesk
®
Mechanical Desktop
®
.
In this tutorial, you create a saddle bracket in two
phases. First, you create all the features of the part in
rough form. Then, you refine those features to complete
the part.
Analyzing design ideas to simplify
sketching
Selecting the base feature
Planning the order in which to
add features
Stabilizing features with
constraints and dimensions
Creating features that remain
fixed relative to work planes and
work axes
Refining features
Adjusting features according to
design changes