Everything was custom and had to be designed to fit into the front-of-house space in a restaurant. In a past life, I worked for a company that designed high-end custom restaurant furniture – bars, buffet lines, divider walls, upholstered booths, etc. Rather than designing components from blocks, referred to as Top Down Assembly Modeling, we are going to use blocks and sketch entities in a layout to control the position of components in a room a set of drums. In this blog article, we are going to examine a different approach to using a layout sketch in an assembly. The layout is created in such a way that the sketch entities will move due to their relations, and the components created from those sketch entities will then move as well.
Three components are then created from the block elements. An example of this can be seen in this image of an assembly that contains a layout sketch with a block. Check out more SOLIDWORKS tips and tricks below.Layout sketches in an assembly are typically used for top down assembly modeling. In the images below, I used our global variable to specify the depth of the extrude and then modified Th from. Global variables in SOLIDWORKS are not limited to one sketch but can be used through the whole part making it convenient to modify many dimensions at once. With this global variable created, you can now use it in equations by either typing it out with single quote marks, for example, ‘Th’ or if you double click a dimension you can type = and use the variable drop down menu, as seen below. This lets you know SOLIDWORKS is going to create a global variable. To create a global variable, you can use the equation manager and add a line in the global variables section of the table.Īnother way is to double click on a dimension and, in the dimension field, type = followed by the variable name the text will turn gold and there will be a globe icon that pops up. 6, and the values for the equations will adjust accordingly. I can easily adjust the value of Th from. One is equal to Th, and the other is twice the size. Alternately you can right-click on the Equations Folder in the feature tree and select Modify equations.Īs you can see, I have one global variable and two equations. Here you can see and modify all the equations and global variables. If I ever want to verify the value of Th and/or wish to change it, I can open the Equation Manager located in Tools > Equations. In the image below, I have created a global variable called Th for the thickness of the part. If we use a global variable, this becomes much clearer. But 50 or 100 dimensions later, it can cause confusion. This is not confusing because so far, in this part, there are only two dimensions. When you double click on the dimension for the bottom line, we can add the equation with being the. They make it easier to understand and modify equations.įor example, in the image below, we want the bottom line to always be twice the thickness of the top portion.
These can be used directly in a dimension or used in an equation. Global variables in SOLIDWORKS are user-defined names that are assigned numeric values.
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