From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Design for Mechatronics
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Mounting bosses - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Design for Mechatronics
Mounting bosses
- [Instructor] Mounting bosses are commonly used in plastic parts or metal castings for assembly purposes. So, in this case for example, if we wanted to maybe assemble a top and the bottom halfs of our robotic arm here we could use mounting bosses and screws or bolts to accomplish this. So if I go to the Insert dropdown here. Fastening Features, here I have a number of tools or commands that are very useful, again, for plastics designs and metal casting designs. So first one in the list being the Mounting Boss. Before we jump into that however, we might want to define a position for it. So to define our mounting boss position, we can do a number of things. We can just draw a point or a circle wherever we'd like it to be located. So again, maybe I'll use this Plane One I created earlier. Just going to create a sketch here and maybe jump normal to that plane. And I'm just going to draw, sketch out a circle here, maybe somewhere about here. Again, I'm just kind of playing around with…
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