Creating Slots

Slot lets you sweep a profile along a center curve to remove material for creating a slot. To define a slot, you need a center curve, a planar profile, a reference element and optionally a pulling direction.

  1. Select the profile.
  2. Click the icon to open the Sketcher .
  3. Edit the profile and quit Sketcher.
  4. To go on with our scenario, let's maintain the Keep angle option. Now, select the center curve along which the app will sweep the profile. The center curve is open. To create a slot you can use open profiles and closed center curves too. Center curves can be discontinuous in tangency. The app previews the slot.
  5. Click to add thickness to both sides of the sketch.
    New options are then available.
  6. Enter 2mm as Thickness1 's value, and 5mm as Thickness2 's value, then preview the result.
  7. To add material equally to both sides of the profile, select Neutral fiber and preview the result.
  8. Click OK.

 

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