MONASH UNIVERSITY

MEC2402 DESIGN METHODS

DETAIL DRAWING PRAC

Your task is to produce a CAD DETAIL DRAWING of the ROLLER. The drawing must comply with the requirements of
AS1100 as a formal engineering drawing. The roller has been drawn with portions removed: the actual roller is made
from a continuous tube.

This detail drawing prac will be worth 1%. It should be uploaded onto the MEC2402 Moodle Submission Box for this
CADTASK.
Other information:
1. A ball bearing No 6204 fits tightly into the 47 mm diameter hole, so the hole has to be made to a close
tolerance (H7). All the other dimensions can be finished to a moderate machining tolerance.
2. The edges of the ball bearing have maximum radii of 0.5 mm. You will have to tolerance the corner in
the bearing recess to ensure that the bearing seats properly.
3. Both ends of the roller are identical: the inserted parts are made from CS1030.

This length
may vary.
Dimension
the length

H7 tol.

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Download your tutorial zip file from Moodle titled Detail Drawing and unzip to the desktop or another easy
access location because these are all the files you will need for the tutorial. Open up the Detail Drawing
Roller Part and add your name and student number to the side of it by editing the sketch by right clicking on
extrude-cut3 and selecting edit sketch, once in the sketch double click and change it to you name and
student number
2. Suppress the two fillet welds in the drawing to prevent them from being displayed as bodies in your
drawing.
3. Save as a Copy, the file as your name and student number.
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MEC2402 DESIGN METHODS
CAD TASK 06 (1%)

4. On the standard toolbar drop down the new tile by selecting the triangle to the right, and select
make drawing from part.
5. When the drawing sheet opens up, the Sheet Format/Size box will open up, select browse and search in the
files we gave you for Drawing Template A3 Monash and select ok. You will notice that the sheet has not
been filled out with any details in the title block. Refer to your Introduction to Engineering Design, chapter
10.6 and 10.16 for relatively good examples. To change any part of this sheet format and title block,
including text, simply right click anywhere in the empty space and selecting Edit Sheet Format, which will
allow you to change any of these features as simply as any sketch in Solidworks. To escape, just select the

exit sheet format , which is located in the top right corner of the window.
6. To select the views which you want to show, you can always add views. To do so select the View Layout tab
and then select Model View allows you to add views. Please show the minimum number of required views
only. To edit views, click on the current view and in the property manager under orientation you can alter
the view direction
7. Since Solidworks is yet to create an AS1100, or the Australian drawing standard, we have created an
approximate standard which you will need to add before dimensioning, although it will automatically update
if you forget and change it at the start. To do this, on the standard toolbar, select Tools, then Options, then
the Document Properties Tab, and select load From External File and select “Monash AS1100.” from the files
we gave you.
8. Make sure you include a small isometric drawing of the part at the bottom left corner of your sheet that is a
custom scale 1:2 so that we can see your name and student number indented on you part in isometric form.
This is not standard, and should not be considered practice in an industrial detail drawing; this is just to stop
plagiarism.
9. If for some reason, the sheet scale is not 1:1, right click on empty space on the sheet and select properties,
and change sheet scale to 1:1, try do this before dimensioning because this can delete dimensions and
relocate them.
10. Solidworks should automatically insert a dashed line to represent the thread, but unfortunately this does
not always work for certain features, for instance with this tute, for some reason when doing a section view
compared to a break out view, the section view doesn’t show the thread and the break out view does show
the thread. To do a break out view, use a side view and then select break out view in the view layout tab,
and after drawing a curve to define the breakout section, set the depth to one half of the cylinder outer
diameter. If you don’t want to do this, you should use a line to draw in the thread to standard. Click the line
button in the sketch toolbar.

When finished your drawing, save the drawing twice. Firstly name the file with your name and student number
and save it somewhere for yourself, secondly select save as, and use the same file name, but change the Save as
Type to Adobe Portable Document Format.pdf and this is what you will submit through to us.

HINTS:
1. If cross sectioning, and Solidworks doesn’t realize that there are two separate parts (i.e. the end cap and
roller tube), you can change the orientation of the hatching by double clicking on the hatching, and in the
Area Hatch/Fill window, deselect material crosshatch and change to apply to body and also change the angle
to oppose the neighbouring part.
2. Don’t forget to include a general tolerance for machining in the notes
a. Indicate the projection standard used in the notes section
b. Indicate the dimensioning units used in the notes section
3. You should be able to do the drawing using only two views, one being a sectioned view.
4. Indicate symmetry where appropriate, hole and thread depth (special down arrow symbol), welds types and
thread types.