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

Pressure Plate

Construction - Using Circular Pattern

Engineering Drawing of Pressure Plate

Independent Product Design

This was basically the tutorial pressure plate but played with.

This is the pressure plate but with different dimensions for everything

Solidworks Lessons 1, 2, and 3

Lesson 1 Objectives

Lesson 2 Objectives

Lesson 3 Objectives

Fillets Process

Mirroring

Gif

Variable Radius Fillets

Constant Radius Fillets/Full knob

The Library Feature

Face Fillet

Fillets Product

In this lesson, you will make an object using these fillet types and features:

Adding different fillet types:
Face
Constant Radius
Variable Radius
Using mirroring to assure symmetry
Applying a library feature

Gif

Full Object

Library Feature

Constant Radius Fillet

Face Fillet

Mirroring Feature

Varaible Radius Fillet

Revolves and Sweeps Process

In This Lesson, you create candlestick shown below. This lesson demonstrates:

Creating a revolve feature
Creating a sweep feature
Creating an extruded cut feature with a draft angle

Whole Candlestick

Gif of Candlestick

Revolve Feature

The Angled Cut

The Seep

Revolves and Sweeps Product

In This Lesson, you create candlestick shown below. This lesson demonstrates:

Creating a revolve feature
Creating a sweep feature
Creating an extruded cut feature with a draft angle

Completed Product

Gif

Revolve Feature

Sweep Feature

Angled Cut

Pattern Features Process

Pattern Features Objectives

In this lesson, you learn how to create a linear pattern and a circular pattern. A linear pattern is a one- or two-dimensional array of features. A circular pattern is a circular array of features. The steps include:

Creating an oblong cut
Creating a linear pattern
Creating a circular pattern
Using an equation to drive the circular pattern

Completed Object

Linear pattern

Gif

Circular Pattern

Oblong Cut

Equation to drive the circular pattern

Pattern Features Product

Pattern Features Objectives

Creating an oblong cut
Creating a linear pattern
Creating a circular pattern
Using an equation to drive the circular pattern

Gif

Full Picture

Circular Pattern

Linear Pattern

Equations and Oblong Cut

Lofts Process

In this lesson, you create this hammer head using loft features. A loft is a base, boss, or cut created by connecting multiple cross sections, or profiles. This lesson demonstrates the following:

Creating Planes
Sketching, copying, and pasting the profiles
Creating a solid by connecting the profiles (lofting)
Adding a flex feature to bend the model

Full View

Gifs of Flex and Rotation

Created Planes

Sketches

Lofts

Lofts Product

In this lesson, you create an object using loft features. A loft is a base, boss, or cut created by connecting multiple cross sections, or profiles. This lesson demonstrates the following:

Creating Planes
Sketching, copying, and pasting the profiles
Creating a solid by connecting the profiles (lofting)
Adding a flex feature to bend the model

Gif of Paxel

Gif of the Flex

Created Planes and Sketches

Lofting

Surface Process

Surfaces Overview

Surfaces are a type of geometry with zero thickness. To create surfaces, you use many of the same methods used to create solids, such as extrudes, revolves, and sweeps. Surfaces also use other functions or features such as trim, untrim, extend, and knit.

Surfaces have advantages over solids. They are more flexible than solids because you do not have to define the boundaries between the surfaces until the final steps of the design. This flexibility helps product designers work with smooth, extended curves such as those used in automobile fenders or telephone housings.

In this lesson, you start with an existing sketch composed of lines, arcs, splines, and sketch points. Then you apply the following surface features to create a nozzle:

Lofts - Sweeps - Knits - Fills - Planar - Revolve - Move/Copy - Trim - Extend - Untrim - Thicken