From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Designing for Consumer Electronics
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Model the joystick - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Designing for Consumer Electronics
Model the joystick
- [Illustrator] Now your assembly is looking great. We've got the actual controller, we've got two sets of buttons and we've got these center buttons. The final parts that we're going to add are two small thumb sticks or joysticks that go in this area. In this video, we're going to create this part and then in the next one, we will add it to the model and make any changes if needed. Start a new part and we'll start a sketch on the front plane. This is quite a simple part. It's just a revolve and an extrude. And we'll start with the revolve first. Select the line tool and start from the origin and draw something like this. Draw the entire profile first and then we will add some dimensions. So roughly like this, when you add the first dimension to a sketch in SolidWorks it will automatically resize the entire sketch. So select the smart dimension tool. We want this bottom section to be 22. This middle section is…
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