ROBOT ARM

Assembly Layout, ISO VIEW, ALTERNATE VIEWS

Review Instructions HERE
Find an image of a robot arm
Create a component with a properly scaled image
Insert that part into an assembly
Create a layout
Create sketch/blocks for each segment
Use sketch relations to link each segment
Make parts from blocks
Extrude/Revolve each segment into 3D models
Ensure assembly works properly
Insert isometric view
Insert BOM
Insert Alternate Position View

Find image

Side-profiles work best

SCALE

ASSEMBLY

Insert the component (that contains only the scaled sketch image) into a new assembly

Start a layout

Sketch components

Sketch entities around the profile of each component, considering that you're sketching the center profile; three-dimensional aspects will be added later

Convert the sketch to a block

Constrain the sketch

Consider that some aspects will be invisible from an image as they lie beneath other components

LAYOUT

Repeat and constrain the blocks to each other (as if they were mates)

To exit the layout sketch, simply Check-it-out

To reenter, RMB the assembly in the Properties feature-tree and select Layout

Make part from block

Menu Bar→Insert→Component→Insert Part from Block→LMB Blocks from secondary design tree

If you're satisfied with the block-components, you can hide/suppress your original sketch-image-component

Model components

Open each component and turn into a 3D model

Keep things simple

Some entities that appear in the foreground/background of your original image must have different parameters such as an extrude-start-offset

Manipulate sketch

If you edit the Layout Sketch and everything has been properly constrained, your components will appear in the new locations as well

Save assembly

Make sure the first SKETCH component properties indicate that it'll be excluded from BOM

RMB Component→Properties→Exclude from BOM

insert onto drawing

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