Hi everyone, I want to draw something like this (magnetic field) on solidwowks drawing. I was just told to get it as close as possible so I am wondering could you guys guide me on how I can easily draw out these magnetic circles/field lines with arrows? so I can direct where this path is going. Would really appreciate any help!
thanks again for any help on this.
Hi Varun Sharma,
You can go for 2D and in that case you will need blocks for the arrows, the 2 inner circles...
Personally I would prefer the 3D journey (after all we all love 3D here aren't we?):
make a sketch with the minimal curves you need.
use other sketches with convert entities and use them for sweeps. Use a global variable for the diameter for easy changing things afterwards.
make a part arrow and mate it with tangent to the curves. You can use patterns to populate the whole length.
make a part/assembly for the 2 inner circles and reuse that with patterns.
make your helix.
If you make the drawing of that, you will get even a better image than the one your show us: the lines will be behind the helix where needed.
Hope it helps,
Eddy
thanks for your reply,
so this is what I have so far...
drawing in the aarows will be a pain in the ass but I wish there was a faster way? would you say I can do all this within .drw file?
SOLIDWORKS has blocks too. Make the arrow a block and insert it where you need it.
..I'm sure you can get there...
Paul Salvador wrote:
..I'm sure you can get there...
That's awesome!
this is just amazing. how did you do that?
can you attach the cad file?
Paul Salvador wrote:
..I'm sure you can get there...
Paul, use paths for animate arrows!
You could also try the autotrace function.
AutoTrace Add-In for SOLIDWORKS converts an image into a sketch
Then, if you wanted it in a drawing, just bring the part with the sketch in it into a drawing.
Dan, is AutoTrace, does any types of image or picture? and does SW has it's tutorial regarding AutoTrace.? Dan your input greatly appreciate. thank you for your time.
..btw,..the other is this online program
Easily, no, not as far as I know. It won't be that difficult, but it will be tedious.