Nathaniel A. May ePort

SolidWorks

SolidWorks - Introduction to SolidWorks

Pressure Plate

Extrusion

Offsetting

Extrusion

Hole

Fillet

New Circle

Extrusion

Array

Fillet

GIF

Engineering Drawing

Product-Arc Reactor (from Ironman)

Extrusion

Extrusion

Extrusion

Cut- Through All

Fillet of 1mm

Fillet of 1mm

Array

Offset

Extrusion

Fillet of 1mm

Offset

Extrusion

Drawing/Dimensions

Lesson 1. SolidWorks - Parts

Fillets

Done Fillets

Zoom in

Offset

Cut in

Change Color

Finished part

Dimension

Extrude 30mm

Done

Circle Sketch

Extrude 25mm

R=50 then Cut

Cut hole

Fillet of 5mm

Finished fillet

Fillet of 1.5mm

Finished Fillet

Shell

Finished Shell

Sectional View

Extend width to 50

Completed

Double click Fillet 1, then delete face fillet

Change Fillet to 10mm

Fillet

Recreating the face fillet to 5mm

Fillet of 5mm

New Fillet

Change color

Completed part gif

Lesson 2. SolidWorks - Assembly

Import both parts.

Select top edges and use the mate function

Mated

Mate up the right sides

Moving the Tutor

Finished part

Completed part gif

Lesson 3. SolidWorks - Drawing

Open Drawing

Open A (ANSI) Landscape

Insert Text

Inserted Text

Saving Sheet Format

Saving

Font Settings

Removing the decimal

3 views

Dimensioning settings

Dimensions

Add Sheet

Added Sheet

Isemetric Veiw

Finished

(Process) Fillet

Making The Fillet Part

Center point arc

Arc

Midpoint line

Radius changed to 15mm

Extrude 10mm

Finished Extrude

Grip

Make part

SHIFT + Right line of the Grip + Left line of the Blue thing then press collinear

Dimmention Grip

Extrude 5mm

Finished extrude

Instructions on making a draft

Add Draft

Face Fillet

(Settings shown below)

Original Part

Select Face Fillet. Face Fillet 1 is in blue, and Face Fillet 2 is in pink

Select face 1 and 2

Finished Fillet

Settings used

Creating Constant Size Fillets

Constant size Fillet of 5mm

Constant Size Fillet of 2mm

Done

Asymmetric Fillet

Constant Size Fillet and set to Asymmetric. type 2 needs to be on the outside

Settings used

Creating A Varible Size Fillet

Select Hidden Lines Removed

Select lines

Variable Size Fillet settings

Set all to make all dimensions the same

All lines are now set to 1.5mm

Mirror

Mirror the part

Done

Filleting The Parting Line

Select Parting Line and make fillet 5mm

Done

Inserting a Library Feature

Library

Library Dropdown, features, metric, keyways, then bore with square key

Bore With Square Keyway

Cut through

Done

Editing The Bore

Open another window with Bore

Select and change depth to 5mm

Done

GIF

(Product) Fillet

1. Face Fillet

Original Part

Face 1 and 2 fillet to the Hold Line

Completed Fillet

2. Constant Size Fillet

Edge Fillet: 5mm

Edge Fillet: 5mm

Completed

3. Asymetric Fillet

Select edges, larger (3) on the outside

Completed Fillet

4. Variable Size Fillet

Change edges to 2mm Fillet

Completed Fillet

5. Mirroring The Model

Select edge and mirror over the Right plane

Completed Mirror

Back

Completed back mirror

6. Filleting The Parting Line

Select center

Completed Fillet

7. Inserting a Library Feature

Bore

Completed Bore

GIF

8. Editing a Library Feature

Edit Bore to Blind, 5mm

Completed Edited Bore

GIF of Completed Part

Mouse Gestures

Change from 4...

..to 8

Category and searching

Sketch

Completed part

When making the part, I had to change the top of the rectangle dimension to 2mm to get it to look right.

Personal Projects

Bat-a-Rang

1#

2#

3#

Web Shooter from Spider-Man

Web Shooter

For 3D printing

SPARKY License Plate for Engineering EV

License Plate in SolidWorks

Finished License Plate

Personal "Good Vibes" Project

Casing for electrical components

Pattern Features

Oblong Cut

Open sketch

Draw extruded cut

Mirror over the axis

Dimension it to the right place

cut through all

Finished cut

Linear Pattern

Settings used

Finished linear pattern

linear pattern

Circular Pattern

Settings used

Circular pattern

More of the settings used

Change number of cuts to 3

done

Equation

Image of degrees and number of cuts

Where to put the equation

The equation

The finished equation and finished part

Where to change the number of cuts

Changed to 4

Gif of completed part

Pattern Features (Check for understanding)

Creating barrel

Sketch

Revolve

Revolve finished

Extrude Cut bottom

Oblong Cut

Mirror over the axis to create the shape to be cut

Cut through all

Circular and Linear patterns + equation

Linear pattern

Circular pattern

Patterns done

Equation

Done. Changed number of cuts to 2 in the equation

gif of finished part with 4 cuts

gif with 10 cuts

Revolve and Sweep Features

Revolve Feature

Sketch Dimensions

Revolve

Completed

Handle sketch

Sketch line

Sketch tangent arc

Move down

Sweep Feature

Sketch ellipse

Tangent the ellipse

Done

Settings used

Revolve boss base

Done with handle

Extrude Cut

Extruded cut sketch

Extruded cut with Draft feature

Finished cut

Color it

Finished gif

Revolve and Sweep Features (Check for understanding)/ Wonky Chess Piece

Revolve Feature

Revolve

Extrude

Extrude some more

Revolve

Done with the ball

Sketch sweep path and Dimension

Sweep Feature

Sketch Ellipse

Add ellipse

Sweep

done

Circular pattern

Extrude Cut with draft angle and Completed part

Extruded cut with draft angle

Finished part

Loft Features

Creating Planes and copying and pasting planes

Create planes starting with the front

Create plane 1

Copy and paste plane 2 to make plane 3

Sketches on Planes

60x60 Square on the front plane

Plane 1 small circle sketch

Sketch 3 (large circle)

Copy and paste large circle onto plane 3

Lofting

Loft boss base

Done

Create plane 4

Create sketch on plane 4

Finished sketch before loft

Loft it

Done

Flex Feature and completed part

Bending

Gif of completed part

It was bothering me that it was only the head, so I added a handle

Loft Features (Check For Understanding)

Creating Planes and copying and pasting planes

Loft it

Done

Extruded cut

Plane 5

Sketch on plane 5

loft

Done

Bending with a flex feature

Done, after bend

Gif of completed part

(P.S. If someone can figure out what this is can they please tell me because I don't even know)

Surfaces

Lofted Surface-Creating the Base

FYI, this is the last time I'm using this many pictures because I already did it. From now on I will keep it concise.

Original sketch

Lofted Surface feature

Settings used

Sweep Surface-Creating the Handle

Planes selected

Sweep Surface feature

Swept Surface-Creating the Exit Nozzle

Swept Surface

Swept Surface

Splint Lines-Dividing the Exit Nozzle

Splint Lines on the top part

Splint Lines-Dividing the Base

Splint Lines on the bottom

Lofted Surface-Surface Bodies

Lofted Surface done

Connecting the Base to the Grip

Before dimensioning

Dimensioned

Done

Connecting the Base to the Nozzle

Done

Knit Surfaces-Joining the Base Entities

knitting the surface bodies

Result of knitting

Filled Surface-Enclosed an Open Area

Open loop and fill surface

Completing the Filled Surface

Open loop and fill surface

Planer Surfaces

Closing the open ends

Closing the open ends

Knit Surfaces-Joining the New Entities

Knit surface bodies again (btw, this is supposed to be knit 2, but it says knit 3 because I redid it)

Revolved Surface

Revolved surface

Revolved surface done

Move/Copy Bodies - Moving A surface

Moving the body down 6.35mm

Trim surface - Removing Surfaces

Before trim

After trim

Extruded Surface - Creating a Trim Tool

Trim Tool

Move/Copy Bodies - Copying a Body

Copying the Body

Finished

Trim Surface - Creating Cuts - Set 1

Hide cut

Trim Surface - Creating Cuts - Set 2

Delete/Keep Body - Deleting Trim Tools

Hide cut

Untrim Surface - Patching a Surface

Untrim

Thicken Surface - Creating a Solid

Thickened the part

Gif of completed part

3D Sketching

Sketching relative to coordinate systems and dimensioning in a 3D space

Sketch with dimensions

Done

Adding the rail

Boss Base extrude rail To Surface

Done

Linear pattern

Linear pattern

Done

Mirroring entities

Mirroring on the faces

Finished mirror

Gif of completed part

3D Sketching (Check For Understanding)

(By the way, I did this before I knew about the Initials but I didn't feel like deleting this section, so i kept it. The real Check for understanding is further down.)

Sketching relative to coordinate systems and dimensioning in a 3D space

Sketch + dimensions

Swept Boss/Base

Linear pattern

Up To Surface Extruded Boss Base

Done

Mirroring entities

Mirror about the surfaces

Completed part

Gif of completed part

Initials, NM (check for understanding)

Sketch

Surface Boss Base

Gif of Completed part

N side

M side

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