SoildWorks

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

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

GIF of Pressure Plate

Fillets

Circular Pattern

Drawing of Pressure Plate

Show Your Understanding

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

GIF of Custom Part

Lesson 1: Parts

GIF of Part

Lesson 1 - 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

Shell

Fillets

Lesson 2: Assemblies

GIF of Part

Lesson 2 - Overview

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

Lesson 3: Drawings

Drawing of Tutor 1

Drawing of Tutor Assembly

Lesson 3 - Drawings

This lesson includes:

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

Seven Piece Puzzle

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Fillets

GIF of Knob

This Lesson Includes:

Using relations in sketches
Adding draft angles to extruded features

Fillet Pattern

Mirroring Object

Fillets Product

GIF of Design

This Lesson Includes:

Using relations in sketches
Adding draft angles to extruded features

Cut Extrusion

Asymmetric Fillet

Mirroring Object

Revolve and Sweeps Features

GIF of Candle Stick

This Lesson Includes

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

Revolve

Sweep

Cut Extrusion

Revolve and Sweeps Features Product

GIF of Design

Revolve

This Lesson Includes

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

Sweep

Pattern Features

GIF of Object

Circular Pattern

Circluar Pattern

This Lesson Includes:

Creating an oblong cut
Creating a linear pattern
Creating a circular pattern
Using an equation to drive the circular pattern

Linear Pattern

Pattern Features

GIF of Design

Cut Extrusion

Linear Array

This Lesson Includes:

Creating an oblong cut
Creating a linear pattern
Creating a circular pattern
Using an equation to drive the circular pattern

Circular Array

Fillet

Revolve

Lofts

GIF of Hammer

This Lesson Includes:

Creating planes
Sketching, copying, and pasting the profiles
Creating a solid by connecting the profiles (lofting)
Adding a flex feature to bend the model

Planes

First Loft

Second Loft

Flex

Lofts Product

GIF of Design

This Lesson Includes:

Creating planes
Sketching, copying, and pasting the profiles
Creating a solid by connecting the profiles (lofting)
Adding a flex feature to bend the model

Planes

Loft

Flex

Mouse Gestures

GIF of Object

This Lesson Includes

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.

I feel that mouse gestures give you a vast amount of options to customize your mouse wheel. When I was using it I felt that it was most useful when I was editing in a sketch. It made it really easy for me if I wanted to make a square, dimension, circle, etc. I changed some of the options in the wheel. Some big changes I made was that I took out the switching of views and changed it to fillets and extrude base. Overall I felt that some mouse gestures were useful, but I only really needed them when I was in a sketch.

3D Sketching