Title: Create a Vertical Cone Description: Create a single cone of given end diameters and length with the center line orientation
vertical along the Z-axis. Archive: http://www.revcad.com/Sheet5/Archive/Examples/vertical_cone.zip Tutorial Index Details: Cone Lower Diameter:250; Upper Diameter: 150 Length:300; Orientation:Z-axis (vertical). Author: Trevor Maddison Date: 11 January 2003 Concepts & Techniques:
1. See: Tutorial: Create a Single Cylinder .
2. Typing relative point positions.
3. Using the 'Edit Part' dialog to alter end section dimensions.
Design Image:
Procedure:
1. Open a new design using the 'File|New' command. This opens the 'Open New Design' dialog box
requesting initial design input defining the required 3D CAD space for the design and other values (see:
Open New Design Dialog ).
3. Now select the Axis Snap tool to snap the active part to
nearest cartesian axis to the mouse pointer.
4. Type a length into the object length edit box in the command dialog .
5. With the object aligned to the vertical cursor plane axis select with the mouse button to fix the second
end point of the new object. The 'Edit Part' dialog box
will now open on the new object. Select the section
indicator (highlighted green) at the lower end. Type a value of 300 into the 'Diameter' parameter. Now
select the upper end section indicator and type in a diameter of 150. Close the dialog to complete the part
design.
Variations:
1. Instead of using the axis snap tool and typing in a length, a simple way to define the cylinder
orientation is by typing in the second point position (see: Creating a Part )
. Normally this is done by
selecting 'Relative' as the datum and typing in a point relative to the first. In this case type '0,0,300' into
the 'Point' edit box with 'Relative' datum. Or type '@0,0,300' to force relative input regardless of the
'Datum' setting.