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iLogic Tutorial for the iDrawer – 16

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iLogic Tutorial – 16 – Extruding the Drawer Front

Now for the main front section with the pins. Turn on the visibility of the Base and Front Profile sketches, and position the model as shown below…

 

iLogic Tutorial for the iDrawer Page Sixteen Image 01 - Half Drawer Side

 

Select the Extrude tool from the Create panel and click on the profile, change the Extents to and select the point on the rigging shown in the image below, which is the endpoint of the rigging line that runs along the YZ plane…

 

iLogic Tutorial for the iDrawer Page Sixteen Image 02 - The Drawer Front

…the preview will jump to the point as shown below…

 

iLogic Tutorial for the iDrawer Page Sixteen Image 03 - Extrude the Front Half

…then select the New solid button as shown in the image above, and click OK to create the solid body. Rename the extrusion Front A and the solid body Front. You should have something that looks like the image below.

 

iLogic Tutorial for the iDrawer Page Sixteen Image 04 - Completed Half Extrusions

 

 

Now for the pin cuts in the front solid. Turn on the visibility of the Cutter Front & Back sketches,  and turn off the visibility of the Right Side solid body. Rotate the model to get a view similar to the one below…

 

iLogic Tutorial for the iDrawer Page Sixteen Image 05 - Rotate The Model

 

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iLogic Tutorial for the iDrawer – 01

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iLogic Tutorial – 01 – Creating the Base Rigging Sketch

With both lines constrained to the Center Point, you should have something that looks like the image below needing two dimensions according to the status bar in the lower right corner. If you zoom out a bit and drag the end of any line, the other end should move at the same rate.

 

iLogic Tutorial for the iDrawer Page One Image 01 - Skeletal Rigging

If everything looks good, draw a Rectangle around the crossing lines to look like this…

 

iLogic Tutorial for the iDrawer Page One Image 02 - iLogic Rectangle

Now use the Coincident constraint again to connect the centers of the top and left lines to the nearest line end…

 

iLogic Tutorial for the iDrawer Page One Image 03 - Coincident Constraints

 

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…which will make your sketch look like the one below, and it will state that there are two dimensions in the status bar.

 

iLogic Tutorial for the iDrawer Page One Image 04 - Fully Constrained

Make all of the lines construction geometry by window selecting everything then clicking on the Construction tool in the Format panel. The last thing to do on this sketch is to add the Drawer_Width and Drawer_Depth parameters to the front and side as shown below.

 

iLogic Tutorial for the iDrawer Page One Image 05 - Compleated Rigging

The status should now show that the sketch is ‘Fully Constrained”.

 

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iLogic Tutorial for the iDoor Three – 05

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iLogic Tutorial Three – Yet more profile creation

The final two dimensions for this sketch are the radius of the lower ac, and the overall reveal as shown below. The radius is .25 and the reveal is .75. and the sketch should be fully constrained. Right click in the graphics window and choose Finish Sketch. Save the file.

 

iLogic Tutorial for the iDoor-Three Page Five Image 01 - The Finished Sketch

Now turn the visibility of the Edge Path sketch back on, and grab the Sweep
tool from the Create Panel
. More than likely, the program will try to select the larger profile of the Edge Path sketch, make sure you select the profile you just created. It should look like the image below…

 

iLogic Tutorial for the iDoor-Three Page Five Image 02 - Create the Sweep

…notice that the right stile solid body will be selected for participation in the procedure as can be seen by the dashed magenta lines. The Path selector should now be active, so select the Edge Path sketch. You should get a green preview of the profile following the path all the way around the part, and the right stile should be selected as the only solid body participating in the operation. We need to change this. if you hover your cursor over the vertical row of four buttons down the center of the dialog box, click the one that says Cut (second one from top). It should change the green preview to red, indicating a cut operation. 

 

 

 

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iLogic Tutorial for the iDoor-Three Page Five Image 03 - The Sweep Preview

The Solids selector should now be active. You now need to add both rails and the other stile to the selection set. it should look like the image below. If so, click OK to accept the settings and create the sweep.

 

iLogic Tutorial for the iDoor-Three Page Five Image 04 - Select the participating solids

 

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iLogic Tutorial for the iDoor Three – 02

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iLogic Tutorial Three – Creating the Profile Plane and Starting the Profiles

     Now for the Profile Plane. To create the profile plane, grab the Plane tool from the Work Features panel, and select the junction of the two lines on the right side as shown below…

 

iLogic Tutorial for the iDoor-Three Page Two Image 01 - Creating the Profile Plane

…then you select the edge of the stile as shown below…

 

 

 

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iLogic Tutorial for the iDoor-Three Page Two Image 02 - Select The Edge

…and the result will be a plane tangental to the edge selected, and located at the junction of the line segments. It should look like this…

 

iLogic Tutorial for the iDoor-Three Page Two Image 03 - Work Plane at End of Line

 

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iLogic Tutorial for the iDoor – 14

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iLogic Tutorial – Creating the “Handed” iLogic Rule

You should now have code that matches the code shown in the image below.

 

iLogic Tutorial for the iDoor Page Fourteen Image 01 - iLogic Rule Section

The next seven lines tell the rest of the right-hand features to be suppressed, and the eight after that tell all eight of the left-hand features to be unsuppressed. You can copy and paste the text below into the code window, but it is not good practice. You can copy and paste the code below, but it would be better practice to write the code yourself.

 

 

 

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Feature.IsActive(“Sm Right_Dowel_Bores”) = False
Feature.IsActive(“Sm Pattern Right”) = False
Feature.IsActive(“Right_Cup_Bore”) = False
Feature.IsActive(“Right_Dowel_Bores”) = False
Feature.IsActive(“Med Pattern Right”) = False
Feature.IsActive(“LG Pattern Right”) = False
Feature.IsActive(“XLG Pattern Right”) = False
Feature.IsActive(“Sm Left_Cup_Bore”) = True
Feature.IsActive(“Sm Left_Dowel_Bores”) = True
Feature.IsActive(“Sm Pattern Left”) = True
Feature.IsActive(“Left_Cup_Bore”) = True
Feature.IsActive(“Left_Dowel_Bores”) = True
Feature.IsActive(“Med Pattern Left”) = True
Feature.IsActive(“LG Pattern Left”) = True
Feature.IsActive(“XLG Pattern Left”) = True

The next part basically says “do what it says above unless Right is selected. If it is, then do the following. The list is exactly the same as the one above except for the true and false statements being reversed.

ElseIf Handed = “Right” Then
Feature.IsActive(“Sm Right_Cup_Bore”) = True
Feature.IsActive(“Sm Right_Dowel_Bores”) = True
Feature.IsActive(“Sm Pattern Right”) = True
Feature.IsActive(“Right_Cup_Bore”) = True
Feature.IsActive(“Right_Dowel_Bores”) = True
Feature.IsActive(“Med Pattern Right”) = True
Feature.IsActive(“LG Pattern Right”) = True
Feature.IsActive(“XLG Pattern Right”) = True
Feature.IsActive(“Sm Left_Cup_Bore”) = False
Feature.IsActive(“Sm Left_Dowel_Bores”) = False
Feature.IsActive(“Sm Pattern Left”) = False
Feature.IsActive(“Left_Cup_Bore”) = False
Feature.IsActive(“Left_Dowel_Bores”) = False
Feature.IsActive(“Med Pattern Left”) = False
Feature.IsActive(“LG Pattern Left”) = False
Feature.IsActive(“XLG Pattern Left”) = False

The last chunk tells the program to follow all of the instructions above unless the value is None, in which case, do the following. It is again exactly the same code chunk as those above with the exception of all values being False. If the value is “None”, all features listed are suppressed.

ElseIf Handed = “None” Then
Feature.IsActive(“Sm Right_Cup_Bore”) = False
Feature.IsActive(“Sm Right_Dowel_Bores”) = False
Feature.IsActive(“Sm Pattern Right”) = False
Feature.IsActive(“Right_Cup_Bore”) = False
Feature.IsActive(“Right_Dowel_Bores”) = False
Feature.IsActive(“Med Pattern Right”) = False
Feature.IsActive(“LG Pattern Right”) = False
Feature.IsActive(“XLG Pattern Right”) = False
Feature.IsActive(“Sm Left_Cup_Bore”) = False
Feature.IsActive(“Sm Left_Dowel_Bores”) = False
Feature.IsActive(“Sm Pattern Left”) = False
Feature.IsActive(“Left_Cup_Bore”) = False
Feature.IsActive(“Left_Dowel_Bores”) = False
Feature.IsActive(“Med Pattern Left”) = False
Feature.IsActive(“LG Pattern Left”) = False
Feature.IsActive(“XLG Pattern Left”) = False
End If

The End If ends the statements and this rule. Click OK. If everything was entered correctly, the part should suddenly have all of the left handed bore holes visible.

 

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