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Training Tutorial
Introduction to SolidWorks "pressure plate"
Introduction to SOLIDWORKS
This lesson includes:
Creating base, boss, and cut features from sketches
Adding fillets to smooth edges
Creating a circular pattern
Adding drawing views
Adding centerlines, center marks, and dimensions to the drawing
Creating cylinder
Adding the last fillet
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Lesson 1,2,3
Lesson 1 - Parts - Overview
You can begin with the first section or skip to a later section to bypass tasks you already know how to do.
Setting up a new part document
Creating the base feature
Adding a boss feature
Creating a cut feature
Adding fillets
Adding a shell feature
Editing features
Completed Part
Next topic Creating and Saving a Part Document
completed part
Adding the boss
Lesson 2 - Assemblies
An assembly is a combination of two or more parts, also called components, within one SOLIDWORKS document. You position and orient components using mates that form relations between components.
In this lesson, you build a simple assembly based on the part that you created in Lesson 1.
This lesson discusses the following:
Adding parts to an assembly
Moving and rotating components in an assembly
Creating display states in an assembly
Mating
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Lesson 3 - Drawings
In this lesson, you create a multi-sheet drawing of the parts and assembly from Lessons 1 and 2.
This lesson includes:
Opening a drawing template and editing a sheet format
Inserting standard views of a part model
Adding model and reference annotations
Adding another drawing sheet
Inserting a named view
Printing the drawing
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Fillet assignment
Fillet Features
This lesson describes how to use different types of fillets.
In this lesson, you modify this knob part by:
Adding different fillet types:
Face
Constant radius
Variable radius
Using mirroring to assure symmetry
Applying a library feature
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Fillets assessment
Face fillet, constant size fillet and variable size fillet
Revolve and sweeps assessment
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Final assessment
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Revolve and sweeps assignment
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PMI Block