You can use the Straight Blade using various parameters:
2.1 Mesh Quality
A better mesh quality ensures a more accurate solution. To improve the mesh quality for an accurate solution, you can choose between high-quality mesh, medium-quality mesh, or low-quality mesh, depending upon your needs. High-quality mesh models will take some time to load, but the results will be excellent.
2.2 Length
It’s the overall length of the straight blade. The user can adjust the length to suit their needs.
2.3 Left Vertical Height
The height of the left vertical side of the blade can be changed to 0 mm to suit the user's needs. We can make this height zero and also create a triangle blade.
2.4 Right Vertical Height
The height of the right vertical side of the blade can be changed to 0 mm to suit the user's needs. We can make this height zero while also forming a triangle blade.
2.5 Swap Direction
Changing the direction of the feature in opposite direction.
2.6 Thickness
The thickness of the Straight Blade. The user needs to enter thickness size to get this feature.
2.7 Metal Insert
To insert a new Metal Insert in the Blades, just click the Option of Metal Insert and choose the height depending upon your need.
The chamfer tool creates a beveled feature on these fixed areas like Top Left, Top Right, Bottom Left, and Bottom Right.
2.8.1 Top Left Chamfer
Option for creating chamfer on the top left side. It’s having two dimensions Length 1 and Length 2 for creating a chamfer cut on the top left side of the straight blade. You can uncheck the box if you don’t want to use this chamfer.
2.8.2 Top Right Chamfer
Option for creating chamfer on the top right side. It’s having two dimensions Length 1 and Length 2 for creating a chamfer cut on the top right side of the straight blade. You can uncheck the box if you don’t want to use this chamfer.
2.8.3 Bottom Left Chamfer
Option for creating chamfer on the bottom left side. It’s having two dimensions Length 1 and Length 2 for creating a chamfer cut on the bottom left side of the straight blade. You can uncheck the box if you don’t want to use this chamfer
2.8.4 Bottom Right Chamfer
Option for creating chamfer on the bottom right side. It’s having two dimensions Length 1 and Length 2 for creating a chamfer cut on the bottom right side of the straight blade. You can uncheck the box if you don’t want to use this chamfer.
Fillet/Round creates a rounded internal or external face on the part. You can fillet at the Top Fillet, Top Right, Bottom Left, and Bottom Right areas.
2.9.1 Top Left Fillet
Option for creating a fillet on the top left side. It’s having one radius dimension for creating the fillet on the top left side of the straight blade. You can uncheck the box if you won't use this fillet option.
2.9.2 Top Right Fillet
Option for creating a fillet on the top right side. It’s having one radius dimension for creating the fillet on the top right side of the straight blade. You can uncheck the box if you don’t want to use this fillet option.
2.9.3 Bottom Left Fillet
Option for creating a fillet on the bottom left side. It’s having one radius dimension for creating the fillet on the bottom left side of the straight blade. You can uncheck the box if you don’t want to use this fillet option.
2.9.4 Bottom Right Fillet
Option for creating a fillet on the bottom right side. It’s having one radius dimension for creating the fillet on the bottom right side of the straight blade. You can uncheck the box if you don’t want to use this fillet option
1 Auto Option
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- If Auto Check Box is ON, depending upon the Teeth depth, land width, cut width the number of teeth will automatically be assigned. If Auto Check Box is OFF, the user needs to enter the Number of Teeth. Then, Land width, Cut Width will automatically depend upon the No of Teeth.
2 Depth of Teeth
3 Land Width
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- Area Distance between two teeth’s
4 Cut Width
5 Chamfer Teeth
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- To apply chamfers on all the teeth of the blade, click the option of chamfer and choose the height depending upon your need.
6 Bottom Teeth
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- Click Bottom Teeth to get the Teeth option on the bottom side of the blades. Bottom Teeth will come only for Straight Blades.
7 Sync
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- Click the Sync option to get the same parameter for bottom teeth like the top teeth.
8 No Teeth Zone Distance (From Each Side)
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- Distance between the First Teeth and the edge of the Straight Blade
2.11 Types of Bevel and their Parameters
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- The bevel option makes the blade sharper. Bevel comes in 7 Types.
- Top Bevel
- Bottom Bevel
- Top with Land Bevel
- Bottom with Land Bevel
- X Bevel
- Y Bevel
- None
1. Top Bevel:
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- Top Bevel means the Secondary angle, the Primary Bevel angle will face on the front side of the Bevel.
- Top Bevel Option has the following parameters
- Secondary Bevel: Bevel after the Primary Bevel Angle
- Primary Bevel Angle: Bevel angle on the corner edge side of the Blades.
- Primary Bevel Length: Length of the Primary Bevel
4. Bottom with Land Bevel:
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- Bottom with Land Bevel means the Secondary angle will face on the backside of the Bevel.
- Bottom with Land Bevel Option having following parameters
- Secondary Bevel: First Bevel on the Blade
- Land Thickness: Remaining thickness after the bevel angles is Land Thickness
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- And also having Cuts like Rectangle, Square, Triangle (Right Angled), Triangle (Left Angled), Slot, Oval.
- RapidCAD™ Blade also have Hole Standards like
- ANSI Metric
- ANSI Inch
- AS
- BSI
- DIN
- GB
- ISO
- IS
- JIS
- KS
- For aligning holes, there will be Placement dimension parameters like X and Y.
- For Patterning the holes, we have a Repeat option on both axis X and Y
2.13 History Feature
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- History Feature will show the users about the features they are worked on so far. You can go to any steps and change that feature parameter in one click.
- All features created in this application and their dimension history will be automatically saved in RapidCAD™ Blade. So, it will be easy for users to go back to the features they want to edit.
2.14 Other Key Features and its benefits
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- There are many key features of RapidCAD™ Blade. This includes
- Material: Material Tab in the menu, allows the user to enter the material types for the blade.
- You can choose the Steel Types and their Standards in a drop-down option easily.
- Finish: Users can choose the Blade finishing standards on this tab.
- We have a drop-down option for Finishing standards, and the USA – Ra micrometer number drop-down option.
- Properties: In the Properties tab, you can check the Volume and the Weight of the Blade you created.
- User-Friendly Interface: RapidCAD™ Blade interface is totally a user-friendly interface. No need for engineering knowledge to create blades in this software. No one has to train specially for this application. We bring you the best user-friendly interface.
- Auto Zooming: We introduced the auto zooming option, when the user starts working on the bevels of the blade, our interface will auto-zoom in the bevel area, to give the best view for users.
- 3D View Mode: You can create and validate the design in full 3d mode without any 2d views. It’s best for advanced users.
- 2D View Mode: You can also create and validate the design in Standard 2D Views. By default, you can see both the 2D and 3D views on the screen. For viewing only 2D view we also gave options.
- Undo and Redo Option: Users can use undo and redo options to go back and front stage of the design.
- Pan Option: We introduced Pan Option to drag and pan the 3D model for easy adjusting.
- Export Option: RapidCAD™ Blade has plenty of output files, you can get all output files in a single click.
These are the following output files you can get from the RapidCAD™ Blade.
STL, STEP, DXF, SVG, PNG, PDF, OBJ,GLTF ,PLY ,COLLADA.