SOLIDWORKS Essentials: Parts, Assemblies & Drawings

Prerequisite(s)

Basic Mechanical design experience
SOLIDWORKS knowledge
Windows operating system Knowledge

Length

5 Days

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Description

The course enables students to build and enhance on their current knowledge within SolidWorks mechanical design automation software. This will allow effective parametric modeling of parts, assemblies and advanced drawing creation.

Completing this course will help you:

  • Use multibody solids
  • Use sweeping features
  • Use lofting features
  • Gain familiarity and utilize advanced capabilitis of SOLIDWORKS

Course outline

  • SOLIDWORKS User Interface
  • File References
  • Sketching and Guidelines
  • Sketch Relations and Dimensions
  • Design Intent
  • Choosing the Best Profile and Sketch Plane
  • Boss and Cut Features
  • Using the Hole Wizard
  • Filleting
  • Design Library
  • Reference Geometry
  • Linear, Circular and Mirror Patterns
  • Sketch Driven Patterns
  • Revolved Features
  • Material and Mass Properties
  • Shell a part and add Ribs
  • Analyzing and Adding Draft
  • Fillets and Thin Features
  • Creating and Using Configurations
  • Equations and Linking Values
  • Editing Concepts
  • Repairing Sketch Issues
  • Making Design Changes
  • FilletXpert, DraftXpert, SimulationXpress
  • Bottom-Up Assembly Method
  • Creating a New Assembly
  • Position of the First Component
  • Feature Manager Design Tree & Symbols
  • Adding Components and Sub-Assemblies
  • Creating, Analyzing, Managing Assemblies
  • Exploded Asemblies, Explode Line Sketch
  • Using Part Configurations in Assemblies
  • Creating Drawing Views of Assemblies
  • Model, Projected, Section, Detail and Broken View Creation and settings
  • Center-mark & Centerlines
  • Annotations
  • Blocks
  • Creating and Managing a Bill of Materials
  • Design Tables in the Drawing
  • User defined Properties in Templates
  • Customizing a Sheet Format
  • Defining the title block
  • Update the sheet Formats
  • Creating, Moving and Deleting Dimensions
  • Dimension Properties
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