Bucket tooth editing

In this tutorial we will edit the teeth of the excavator bucket.

Before	After

1. You need a BricsCAD Platinum license for this tutorial.
2. Download and open the Bucket_Assembly.dwg file.
3. Select Crown in the Mechanical Browser.
4. Click Open a copy () in the right click menu.
5. Save as Crown_new.dwg.
6. Hover over the side face and select Generate boundary () from the Draw section of the Quad.
   
7. Hover over the solid and select Move () from the Model section of the Quad and move the solid along the X-axis by a distance of 200.
8. Hover over the solid and select Hide entities () from the Select section of the Quad.
9. Delete the circle.
10. Select the polyline and select Extrude () from the Model section of the Quad. Enter an extrusion distance of 120.
11. Hover over the filet and select Select same or less radius fillets ( ) from the Select section of the Quad.
    
12. Delete all fillets.
13. Select the blade edge. Select Move () from the Model section of the Quad.
14. Click to select a base point, move the edge along the Z-axis. Enter a distance of 60.
    
15. Hover over the back face and hold down the left mouse button longer than ¼ second to launch the manipulator widget.
    
16. Place the cursor over the Y-axis. Hold down the CTRL key and click.
17. Move the cursor to copy the entity along the Y-axis. Set a distance of 100.
18. Repeat step 16 to create another surface with a distance of 60.
19. Click the Imprint () button on Solid | Edit panel of the Ribbon.
20. Select the solid and the first surface. Enter Yes to delete the source surface.
21. Select the second surface. Enter Yes to delete the source surface and finish the command.
22. Enable the Edges between coincident faces () tool button on the Solid | Design Intent panel of the Ribbon.
23. Select the 2 triangular blade faces and select PushPull ( ) from the Model section of the Quad. Move the cursor out a distance of 30.
    
24. Hover over the blade edge. Select Add Fixation () from the Constraint section of the Quad.
    
25. Hover over the second top face. Select Rotate () from the Model section of the Quad.
26. Select the edge between the second and third top faces as the rotate axis. Move the cursor down and enter a rotation angle of 5 degrees.
    
27. Rotate the second bottom face symmetrically to up 5 degrees.
28. Select all horizontal edges. Select Fillet () from the Model section of the Quad.
    
29. Enter a radius of 6.
30. Enable Snap to Midpoint () (Hold down the Shift key, then right click to open the Esnap context menu.)
31. Click the Rectangle () tool button in the Solid | Draw panel of the Ribbon.
32. Create a rectangle of dimensions 20x200. Snap to the Midpoint of the blade edge of the top face.
    

    NOTE	To lock Dynamic UCS to the face, hover over the blade top face and press the SHIFT key during the drawing command.

    

33. Hover over the rectangle. Select Extrude () from the Model section of the Quad.
34. Enter an extrusion height of 20.
    
35. Hover over the vertical left face of the new extrusion. Select Extrude () from the Model section of the Quad.
    
36. Enter an extrusion distance of 20 to make the rib symmetrical.
37. Hover over the top front face of the rib.
38. Select Rotate () from the Model section of the Quad.
39. Set the edge between the selected face and the fillet face as the rotation axis.
40. Move the cursor inwards. Enter a rotation angle of 60.
41. Repeat steps 37-40 to rotate the top back face of the rib inwards by an angle of 80.
42. Hover over a face of the rib and select Select Protrusion () tool button on the Select section of the Quad.
    
43. Click the CopyFaces () tool button on Solid | Edit panel of the Ribbon. Select the main face's middle point as the base point for the copy.
    
44. Use the Rotate option of the command, rotate the rib 180 degrees around a vertical axis.
45. Use the Mode option of the command, to change the cutting mode to No cut and insert the rib symmetrically with the edge midpoint as the insertion point.
    
46. Use the Rotate () of the Model section of the Quad.
47. Rotate side faces by an angle of 15.
    
48. With nothing selected, right-click to call the Quad. Select Show Entities () from the General section of the Quad.
49. Using the Select Depression () tool from Solid | Select panel of the Ribbon, select the depression and two holes as show below.
50. Click the CopyFaces () tool button on Solid | Edit panel of the Ribbon. Select the midpoint of the left vertical edge of the back face of the old crown. Set the insertion point to the midpoint of the left vertical edge of the back face of the new crown.
51. Select Erase () from the Modify section of the Quad. Delete the old crown.
52. Save file Crown_new.dwg.
53. Switch to the Bucket_Assembly.dwg file.
54. Select Crown in Mechanical Browser.
55. Click Replace all inserts () in the right click menu and select the Crown_new.dwg file to use as a replacement.