From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Designing a Stirling Engine

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Create the heater bracket block

Create the heater bracket block - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Designing a Stirling Engine

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Create the heater bracket block

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- [Instructor] We're now going to leave the assembly for a while and start creating the parts for the heater section. This is the part of the engine that actually produces the power. And the first part that we'll make is a bracket to hold the heater cylinder. Start a new part and start a sketch on the top plane. Draw a sense of rectangle at the origin, make it 25 millimeters high and 60 millimeters wide. And then we're going to do an extruded boss base. So select that from the features tab, let's make this 100 millimeters and midplane, so it should just be a rectangular block like this. Press okay, and let's call that body. Next we're going to sketch a cutout for the cylinder itself. So start a sketch on this face, and then use the circle tool, and draw a circle, that's 40 millimeters diameter. It should be 69 millimeters from the bottom of the block, and it should be lined up with the origin. So that should fully…

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