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.

Introduction to SolidWorks (Pressure Plate)

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

Isometric view

Base plate with Extrude

Pressure plate fillets

Construction using circular pattern

Creating circular pattern

Cuts created

Pressure plate center lines

Video of final pressure plate

Pressure Plate Engineering Drawing

Introduction to SolidWorks (Pressure Plate) - Product Grade

3D model with design lines and dimentions

Fillet Tool

Duplicated circular pattern

Centers of circular extrudes

Extrudes between circular extrudes and dimensions

Final Part (Isometric View)

Decagon GIF

Engineering drawing

Lesson 1 : Parts

Lesson 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
Completed Part

Isometric View

Tutor 1 base feature

Tutor 1 dims and extrude

Tutor 1 dimensions, fillets, and boss features

Fillets

Final Tutor 1 GIF with original 25mm dimensions

New dimesions created while doing engineering drawings

Tutor 1 Engineering drawing showing new dimensions of 40 mm vs 25mm for extrude from lesson 3 drawings

Tutor 1 GIF with new dimensions (Extrude boss of 40mm vs. 25mm)

Lesson 1 Shell

Lesson 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

Shell Dimensions

Shell Cut Extrude

Shell Construction with fillets

Shell Final

Shell GIF

Lesson 3 Assembly

Lesson Objectives:

Adding parts to an assembly

Moving and rotating components in an assembly

Creating display states in an assembly

Assembly Axis line up

Assembly Extrude

Assembly GIF

Assembly engineering drawing with new dimensions (From lesson 3 drawings)

Assembly with new dimesions

Lesson 2.5 Mouse Gestures

INSTRUCTIONS - Complete the following tutorial to help your designing techniques.

Next, try to recreate the object below only based on what you see. Dimensions are not included. Do your best at recreating this object using your new mouse gestures. Add your new GIF of the object below it.

My Spinny Cube design

SolidWorks Tutorials Fillets (Process grade)

Knob Grip Dimensions

10 degree Draft

Creating Face Fillets

Holding Line Edges

Edge Fillets

Variable size Fillets

Edit Key way feature

Key way through part

Keyway fixed

Final Part

Impeller (Product) Fillets

Impeller Extrudes

Impeller interior extrude

Impeller w/variable face fillets and edge fillets

Impeller Design

The center design was derived from a centrifigal line of 8 triangles created as an extruded boss. From there I selected the center which only highlighted the inside section of the extrude. Using various face fillets I highlighted the various depths of the impellers. I could not find the file to add a keyway (This file was lost in C:\Users\Public\Documents\SOLIDWORKS\SOLIDWORKS2022\samples\tutorial\fillets directory and cannot be found)

Impeller GIF (see note on lefft)

Lesson 4 - Resolve and Sweep features (process)

Lesson Objectives

Creating a Resolve feature
Creating a Sweep feature
Creating an extruded cut feature with a draft angle

Isometric View

Dimensions

Sketching the Sweep section

Sweep Path

Dimesioning the base

Creating the sweep

Axis of revolution

Final Design

SolidWorks - Resolve and Sweep features (product)

Purple Coffee Cup

Original design

Original design with thicker shell

Thinner shell w/Extruded Cut

Resolve and sweep

Attaching handle to centerline of cup

Handle lined up with front plane

Cup on a table

Final design

Solid Works - Pattern Features (Process)

In this lesson, you learn how to create a linear patternand a circular pattern. A linear pattern is a one or two dimensional array of features. A circular pattern is a circualr array of features.

The steps include: