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

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

                   Introduction to SolidWorks Product

                                                       Lesson one - Parts - Overview

Lesson 1 - Parts - Overview

• 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

                                                    Now I added a back to the camera with a lip that grabs onto the inside

Mouse Gestures

You can use a mouse gesture as a shortcut to execute a command, similar to a keyboard shortcut. After you learn command mappings, you can use mouse gestures to invoke mapped commands.

Mouse Gestures

• Start a sketch for a part.

• Sketch a rectangle and a circle.

• Save the sketch.

• Dimension the sketch.

• Extrude the sketch.

• Change the view of an extruded part.

Fillet Features

This lesson describes how to use different types of fillets.

In this lesson, you modify this knob part by:

• Adding different fillet types:

  • Face

  • Constant radius

  • Variable radius

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• Using mirroring to assure symmetry

• Applying a library feature

                                        Fillets product

                                   Resolve and Sweeps

Revolve and Sweep Features

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

• Creating a revolve feature

• Creating a sweep feature

• Creating an extruded cut feature with a draft angle

                      Revolves and sweeps product

Pattern Features

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

                         Pattern Project

                                        Lofts

Loft Features

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

                                          Lofts product

                                           Surfaces

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

                                  3D Sketching

3D Sketching

Using SOLIDWORKS, you can create 3D sketches. You use a 3D sketch as a sweep path, as a guide curve for a sweep or loft, as a centerline for a loft, or as one of the key entities in a routing system. A useful application of 3D sketching is designing routing systems.

This lesson introduces you to 3D sketching and describes the following concepts:

• Sketching relative to coordinate systems

• Dimensioning in 3D space

• Mirroring features

                                  3D Sketching Final