{"id":732,"date":"2013-10-16T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/?p=732"},"modified":"2024-01-26T11:21:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T16:21:46","slug":"solidworks-part-reviewer-glass-with-controlled-edges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2013\/10\/solidworks-part-reviewer-glass-with-controlled-edges.html","title":{"rendered":"SolidWorks Part Reviewer: Glass with Controlled Edges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/glass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-734\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/glass-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"glass\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/glass-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/glass-96x120.jpg 96w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/glass.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><strong>Glass with Controlled Edges:\u00a0<\/strong>It is a good best practice to create a central axis for circular features when working on complication \u201crevolved\u201d parts. This should be reference for all circular features instead of sketch center lines, model faces or edges, etc.<\/p>\n<p>A global variable defines the number of sections. This is used to create a cut that isolates one section of the glass. This way the finished shape can be pattered eliminating unnecessary rework. By using a global variable, the number of sections now parametrically drive the model.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/Moderate-Glass-with-Controlled-Edges.zip\">Moderate- Glass with Controlled Edges<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Complexity<\/strong>: Moderate<br \/>\n<strong>Features used<\/strong>: Revolve, Global Variable, Sweep<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 15.0pt; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">View all the Part Reviewer Tutorials<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.3dcontentcentral.com\/parts\/supplier\/SOLIDWORKS-Part-Reviewer.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #428bca; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 15.0pt; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><b style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">DraftSight Download:\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">In conjunction with DraftSight, Dassault Syst\u00e8mes&#8217; 2D CAD product, the 2D drawing(.dwg) file of the Self Centering Ring\u00a0tutorial\u00a0is now available for download<span class=\"apple-converted-space\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/Moderate-Glass-with-Controlled-Edges-dwg.zip\">here<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glass with Controlled Edges:\u00a0It is a good best practice to create a central axis for circular features when working on complication \u201crevolved\u201d parts. This should be reference for all circular features instead of sketch center lines, model faces or edges,<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2013\/10\/solidworks-part-reviewer-glass-with-controlled-edges.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[539,21,34,35],"tags":[42,60,62],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-part-reviewer-tutorials","category-solidworks","category-support","category-tips-tricks","tag-part-reviewer","tag-tech-tip","tag-technical-tips"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30204,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/30204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}