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Create your first part ​

This tutorial builds a mounting plate 120 x 80 x 8 mm with a grid of twelve holes, then changes its size. It takes about ten minutes and uses the main tools: parameters, a sketch with dimensions, Extrude, Hole and Pattern.

The finished plate

Start the part ​

  1. On Home, click New part. Moket creates Untitled part and opens it in the editor.
  2. Click the name in the top bar, type Mounting plate and press Enter.

Moket saves every step by itself; the top bar shows Saved to cloud.

1. Add parameters ​

Parameters are named values you can reuse and change later.

  1. Click Parameters in the toolbar, or press P.
  2. In the empty row at the bottom, type width and 120 mm, then click +.
  3. Add depth = 80 mm, thick = 8 mm and holeDia = 6 mm the same way.
  4. Click Close.

2. Sketch the outline ​

  1. In the browser, expand Origin and click XY plane.
  2. Click Sketch, or press S. The view turns to face the plane.
  3. Click the arrow next to Rectangle and choose Center rectangle. Click the origin (the green point in the middle), then click a corner.
  4. Press Esc to put the tool away.
  5. Click Dimension (D), click the bottom line, click below it where the value should go, type width and press Enter.
  6. Dimension the right line the same way with depth. The panel shows Fully constrained.
  7. Click Finish Sketch.

Typing a dimension as a parameter name

3. Extrude the plate ​

  1. Click Extrude (E). The sketch's profile is already selected.
  2. In Distance, type thick.
  3. Check the preview and click OK.

4. Add a hole and repeat it ​

  1. Click the top face of the plate, then Sketch.
  2. Click Point and click near the lower left corner.
  3. With Dimension, click the origin and the point and place a horizontal distance of 45 mm, then a vertical distance of 20 mm.
  4. Click Finish Sketch, then Hole. Type holeDia in Diameter and click OK.
  5. Click Pattern. The hole is selected. Set Count 4 and Spacing 30 mm, check Second direction, set 3 and 20 mm, and click OK.

Pattern preview with twelve holes

5. Change the design ​

  1. Open Parameters and change width to 150 mm and holeDia to 8 mm.
  2. The plate rebuilds: wider, with bigger holes, and the holes stay on their grid.

Every step can be undone with Ctrl+Z (Cmd+Z on a Mac).

Next steps ​

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