Creating a Pocket

You can create a pocket based on a simple profile and usually having side walls and a bottom. It also has an inner protected volume, which means that no other volumes in the same body can penetrate this area.

If you add a pocket to a shelled body, it creates supporting walls, if necessary.

Related Topics
More about Pockets
Creating Functional Features
Using the Display Only Parents Option to Retrieve a Creation Context

  1. Click Pocket in the Functional Features toolbar.

    The Pocket dialog box appears.



  2. A pocket requires a closed planar profile. Select the profile defining the shape of the pocket.

    Tip: If no profile is defined, clicking the Sketcher icon enables you to sketch the profile you need.

  3. The prism is the default shape. Just click Sweep if you want to change. For the purposes of our scenario, keep the default option. The direction of a pocket always goes from the inside to the outside of the body.

  4. Set the parameters and options you want to define the shape as explained in Prism.

    In the Distance tab:


    • Floor: Length=20mm
    • Opening: Length=0mm


  5. Click Reverse Direction.

  6. Select the Clearance volume check box.

  7. Click Draft tab to define a draft angle.

  8. In the Draft behavior box, select Intrinsic to feature.

  9. Enter the desired value in the Angle box, 2 for example.

    The default neutral element (defines a neutral curve on which the drafted face will lie) is the Profile plane. The other possible neutral elements can be:


    • Floor
    • Opening
    • Plane/Surface

  10. Click Preview.



  11. In the Clearance volume angle box, enter 7deg.



  12. Click the Fillet tab.

  13. Select the Lateral radius and Floor radius check boxes to fillet lateral edges and the floor edge with 7mm radius value.

    Important: You can select the Draft fillets check box from the Fillet tab. For more information, see More About Draft Fillets.

  14. Click Preview.



  15. To define the wall, you can set one of the two options available from the Type drop down list:


    • Use body thickness: the pocket wall thickness is that of the active shelled body thickness.

    • Enter thickness: simply enter the value you want. After this option is selected, the value box becomes available. Wall thickness values can only by positive values.

    You can control whether the wall is constructed inside or outside of the selected profile for Direction. The default is an outside wall thickness. With Constant wall thickness option, it propagates the fillets inside of the shell to maintain the wall thickness. Constant wall thickness is selected by default.

    For the purposes of our scenario, set the Enter thickness option and enter 7mm in the value box.

  16. Click OK to confirm and create the pocket.

    The pocket is created. The protected volume is hidden. Pocket.X is added to the specification tree in the Solid Functional Set.x node.