How To Draw An Spring In Solidworks?

Welcome to SolidWorks Tutorials for Beginners and you are going to create SolidWorks bound CAD model. Spring is 1 of the most useful function in every products or mechanical devices. Spring used in every manufacture in their various forms like open bound, closed spring, conical leap etc. For example, open up jump is used in automotive suspension units and also used every bit vibration dampening devices. They have lot of application and because of that you lot should know how to model spring in SolidWorks CAD software. Checkout All-time SolidWorks Training Materials hither.

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How to Model SolidWorks Spring

Before going to SolidWorks tutorial, you should see the diverse important applications of Spring parts.

They are :-

Compression Spring:- Engines, Power tools, Medical instruments, Pen, Gun etc
Extension Spring: Vehicles, doors, toys, machinery, etc
Torsion jump: Clothspins, clocks, doors, watch etc

Here, yous can see step past footstep SolidWorks Bound modelling tutorial with pictures and videos.

Step-1: New Office File

Open up the SolidWorks and New part File. If yous don't know information technology, read how to create new part File. Select the Plane (eastward.g. Top Plane) and normalize using the "Normal To" Push.

create new part file for solidworks tutorials

Step-two: Depict Helix Curve

Get to Features Commandmanager, click on "Curves" and select "helix or Spiral" feature tool from the drop downward menu.

select helix or spiral curves from curve feature command manager solidworks spring tutorial

It volition directly yous to Sketch interface where you have to depict a circle using "Circle Sketch Tool".

draw circle sktech using circle sktech tool from sktech command manager solidworks spring tutorial

If you take particular dimension for your spring, apply the diameter for the circle using SmartDimesion Tool. Hither I am not applying dimension.

Click on "Exit Sketch".

exit sktech option before applying feature tools

Then you direct to Features interface where you lot can meet the preview of helix curve. Y'all have to set parameters on helix or spiral property director.

create helix or spiral curve for making spring sktech

You lot can see the higher up image for parameter values. (Remember:- it is just a rough sketch for purpose of tutorial merely).

So click on the dark-green tick button for applying the helix feature. You have created helix curve sketch for Solidworks Spring model.

Step 3:- Draw Jump cross section (circumvolve) on Terminate of Helix

Hither you are making circular cross department spring model. So, you have to create circle sketch in one end of helix bend.

For that, y'all have to create reference plane perpendicular to curve at one end. This is very important step in making Solidworks spring cad model.

Let us encounter how it'due south done.

Click on the i end of helix curve (say Point ane). Then, go to Features Commandmanager, click on "Reference Plane" and select "Plane".

apply reference plane using plane for making sktech

Select the "point 1" as the First reference plane.

create perpendicular plane to make sketch for sweep prfile

The select "helix/spiral one" every bit 2nd reference.

select second refernce plane for spring cad tutorial

And so your plane will become perpendicular to curve and parallel and contact with betoken. Here you tin brand the spring cross department. Go to Sketch toolbar and select "Circumvolve" tool and draw it.