Author Archives: Jade Wilson
USA Map Puzzle: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
For this tutorial, I wanted to create an education wooden puzzle, so I decided to look at the United States of America. My puzzle was designed and sketched within a vector software, for complex designs like this puzzle I find
... ContinuedWooden Biscuit Cogs Toy – SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
For this tasty biscuit themed tutorial, I wanted to play around with modeling custom cogs for a wooden toy design. If you are following this tutorial, you will need to download the files here There are two different sized cogs
... ContinuedRendering a Toy – SOLIDWORKS Visualize Tutorial
In this tutorial I take you through the steps I take within SOLIDWORKS Visualize to create more professional renderings. This includes editing backgrounds, appearances and decals, camera settings and model placement. You can see below a side-by-side rendering of my wooden toy
... ContinuedAssemble a Toy Donut Shop – SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
For this SOLIDWORKS tutorial, I wanted to take you through the assembly of a toy I designed in SOLIDWORKS, this includes mating fixed and moving parts and applying smart fasteners to hole wizard features. If you would like to play
... Continued3D Mother’s Day Card : SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
I have designed many cards in SOLIDWORKS before, creating a 3D image to render and print flat onto a card, for this Mother’s Day card, I wanted to try something a little different and create the finished card in SOLIDWORKS.
... Continued3D Sculptor xShape Chess Set – SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
In this 3D Experience, xShape tutorial for a chess set, I’ll show you how I modeled the pawn, rook, and knight chess pieces from my set. I’ll be focusing on the use of the crease tool, subdivision extrude and inserting loops.
... ContinuedPerpetual Flip Calendar: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
To celebrate the New Year I wanted to create a 3d perpetual calendar to make a countdown animation. Before starting this tutorial, download the parts here. The calendar is made up of a case that hold the two induvial day dials, the months
... Continued3D Sculptor xShape Piggy Bank: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
For this tutorial I used a variety of subdivision shapes including the quad ball, cone, cylinder and torus, or as I like to call the torus a donut. The quad ball is a nice shape to work with as its
... ContinuedFestive Lights Animation: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
I wanted to design a festive tutorial for a light themed animation. To follow this tutorial, you will need to download the lights model and VISUALIZE files here. So, taking a string of lights I designed roughly in SOLIDWORKS I
... ContinuedGingerbread House Cookie Cutter: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
For this festive SOLIDWORKS tutorial see how easy it is to create a Gingerbread House cookie cutter for 3D printing. To follow you will need to download the house DXF file from the SOLIDWORKS blog below, I have also provided my original gingerbread house model for download if you would like this as a starting point to design your own.
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