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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.
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Introduction to SolidWorks:
Tutorial Training
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
Pressure Plate
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.
Objective 1: Create the Base/Boss.
Sketch a circle.
2. Use Smart Dimension to resize the circle to exactly 128mm.
3. Sketch another circle in the center of your first circle, and make it slightler smaller.
4. Using Smart Dimension. resize the circle to exactly 75mm.
5. Using Offset Entities, you'll select Reverse to offset the circle to the inside, and then set the Offset distance to 5.
6. Extrude your circle using Extruded Boss/Base.
7. Sketch a new, smaller, circle in the middle of your base.
8. Use Smart Dimension to resize your circle to exactly 25mm.
9. Use Extruded Cut to make your circle into a hole.
10. Create a fillet on all of the edges of the circles except the middle circle.
Congrats, the base is done! Now you'll move onto the circular pattern.
Highlighted Base in Final Product
Objective 2: Create a Circular Pattern.
Sketch a centerline, and on the top end of the line, sketch a circle.
2. Use Smart Dimension to resize your circle to 27mm, then your centerline line to 35mm.
3. Use Extruded Boss/Base to extend the circle to 30mm.
4. Sketch a circle on top of your new cylinder, and then use Smart Dimension to resize it to 15mm.
5. Using the Through All option in Direction 1, create a hole throughout the entire base and cylinder.
6. Fillet the cylinder.
7. Create a circulr pattern of 6, evenly spaced cylinders.
8. Fillet each side of the circulr pattern.
FINISHED PRODUCT
SKETCH OF PRESSURE PLATE
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