Recently, friends often ask about how to make knurling effect of SolidWorks parts. Here is a training course for drawing parts knurling:
As a mechanical designer, you should be familiar with knurling. In fact, it is not difficult to draw knurling. Follow us step by step, and you should be able to master it quickly.
SolidWorks part knurling expression method:
Method 1: Draw a 3D knurling effect
1. Open the SolidWorks part that needs to be knurled, and we made a ring to demonstrate how to make knurling. At this time, the surface of the part that needs to be knurled should be operated as follows:
2. Make a helical line close to the surface that needs to be knurled. First find the helix command, feature-curve-helix
3. Make a helical line close to the side as shown in the figure below (the diameter of the helical line is the outer diameter of the cylindrical surface, and you can set the pitch according to your own effect). This helix acts as a guide for extruded cuts
4. We create a new datum plane at the starting point of the spiral, perpendicular to the spiral, as shown in the figure below, draw a sketch of an inverted triangle
5. Then we click to scan and cut
The effect is as follows:
6. Do the opposite in the same way. The effect after completion
7. The features on the circular array, as shown in the figure below: the number of arrays is defined by yourself
8. The effect after completion is as shown in the figure below:
This method is to achieve a similar effect in three dimensions, and the explanation of the knurling is marked in the engineering drawing.
Let's take a look at the second method
Method 2: SolidWorks part knurling texture operation
1. Select the outer cylindrical surface, select the drop-down arrow of appearance in the upper left corner of the mouse, and select the surface, as shown in the figure below:
2. Enter the advanced option of this surface color, select color/image, and browse to the installation location D:\Program Files\SOLIDWORKS Corp\SOLIDWORKS\data\Images\textures\metal\machined for the appearance file, and select the texture of knurling, as shown in the figure below Shown:
Note: The path here is the path where you install SolidWorks. The computer for the demonstration is installed on the D drive by default, so it is D:\Program Files\SOLIDWORKS Corp\SOLIDWORKS\data\Images\textures\metal\machined, if If you installed the default C drive, go to the C drive to find the corresponding path. If you installed other custom locations, you have to find it yourself. These textures are available by default.
3. The map effect is as follows:
However, this effect cannot be brought into the engineering drawing, and needs to be marked as surface knurling in the engineering drawing.
The second method does just that.
The above are the two methods of drawing part knurling. You can refer to it. If you have any questions, you can contact Zhonglian Yicheng at any time - Dassault SOLIDWORKS genuine authorized agent. In addition to providing you with SOLIDWORKS educational version of the genuine software, you can also To provide you with more value-added services such as training services, secondary development, and examination certification.