From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Designing a Stirling Engine

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Create the cooler bracket

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Create the cooler bracket

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- [Instructor] Now we're going to make the parts for the second side of the engine where the cooler is, and for this, we only actually need three new parts because we can reuse the rods, the linkage, and the rod connectors. So start a new part, and the first part that we're going to make is the cooler bracket. This is pretty similar to the heater bracket, but it's actually a bit simpler because we've got a different arrangement for the valves. Start a sketch on the front plane, and draw a center rectangle at the origin. This should be 100 millimeters high and 60 millimeters wide, and then do a mid-plane extrude, 12 millimeters, and let's call that feature Body. Then just round off these two top edges using the Fillet tool and 10 millimeter fillets. So you can see this is roughly similar to the heater bracket shape. Now we're going to add some screw holes on the bottom, so this can attach to the base. Use the Hole…

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