SOLIDWORKS

SOLIDWORKS is used by millions of designers and engineers at hundreds of thousands of companies. It’s one of the most popular design and engineering software on the market. Known for its range of features and high functionality, SOLIDWORKS is used across multiple professions and industries around the world. SOLIDWORKS uses parametric design, which is why it’s such an effective tool for designers and engineers. This means that the designer can see how changes will affect its neighboring components, or even the overall solution. For example, if the size of a single component is increased, this would affect the joint or hole it’s attached to. This allows designers to spot and correct issues quickly and easily.

Pressure Plate

Circle Pattern

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Learning Objectives

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

Basic Part

Leaning Objectives

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

Fillets

Shell

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Basic Assembly

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Learning Objectives

Adding parts to an assembly
Moving and rotating components in an assembly
Creating display states in an assembly

Tutorial Sheets

Learning Objectives

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

Soma Cube

A soma cube is a puzzle cube, made with seven different blocks. The Soma Cube has 240 different solutions (not counting reflections).

Low Poly Fish

A simple low poly fish, inspired by a salmon.

Knob

A simple tutorial knob that was used to teach about the different types of fillets and the mirror tool

Using relations in sketches
Adding draft angles to extruded features

Variable Fillet

A fillet with one or more different radii

Draft

Draft allows faces to angle towards a point.

Asymmetric Fillet

A fillet that uses different radii for each of its edges.

Pre and Post-Mirror

Mirroring allows for quick and easy duplication of geometry for symmetrical parts.

Candlestick

The candle stick seen here is another SOLIDWORKS tutorial, teaching how to use more advanced types of bases and the display pane.

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

Transparency

Using the display plane, the part can be made transparent to view details such as holes.

Swept Base

The swept base allows for 2d sketches to be turned 3d by creating geometry along a path.

Revolved Base

The revolved base allows for making shaped geometry with a circular base easily.

Candle

An example of the candlestick holding a simple candle. This was done by creating the candle as a seperate part and using an assembly and mates.

Generic Lever

A generic lever assembly meant to demonstrate my understanding of the two previous lessons.

Asymmetric Variable Fillets

Variable fillets that use two different radii for each side.

Draft

A simple draft meant to make the base wider than the top.

Revolved Base

By revolving a semi-circle I was able to create a sphere.

Swept Base

Using a swept base following a spline I was able to create a handguard.

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