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SOLIDWORKS Juice Dispenser Tutorial – Part 2
It’s that time of year, the kids have just head back to school and they are growing like weeds! In an effort to teach the kids a bit more independence, we are designing and 3D printing a custom juice dispenser
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Packing Tape Dispenser Tutorial
Packing Tape Dispenser: This familiar tool in your office has been created as a single part to showcase a wide variety of SOLIDWORKS features. We combine sheet metal, plastic and a few surface features to give you several unique examples
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Baseball Bat Tutorial
Baseball Bat: This part comes just in time for the baseball playoffs. This part uses a revolve to create the overall shape but sprinkles in a few surface features to create the handle wrap. The surface features include thicken, offset surface,
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Juice Dispenser Tutorial – Part 1
It’s that time of year, the kids have just head back to school and they are growing like weeds! In an effort to teach the kids a bit more independence, we are designing and 3D printing a custom juice dispenser
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Vintage Microphone Tutorial
Vintage Microphone: We are “on the air” with SOLIDWORKS! This multi-body part goes over different pattern and mirroring techniques. It does include a few advanced features including sweeps and a loft. There is an example of a spring created from helix
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Time-Lapse Tutorial: Desktop Catapult
Medieval times brought us so many great engineering machines which helped brave knights break down the wall of their enemies. Many of these mechanisms are still used today and are being developed for new technologies. So, we took a trip
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: 8-Track Tape Tutorial
8-Track Tape: Rock on with an old school example of music history. This is a multi-body solid created with mostly solid body features. There are few surface features used to create the magnetic tape. The internal tape is shown twisting using
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Sunscreen Lotion Bottle Tutorial
Sunscreen Lotion Bottle: Just in time for summer this sunscreen bottle goes over solid and surfaces body features to create the geometry. This model has different examples of patterns with varying geometry including variable patterns that use Pattern Tables to
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Time-Lapse Tutorial: Infinity Mirror
Optical illusions are designed to trick your mind to believing something is there that isn’t really there. Believe it or not, most optical illusions are very simple to achieve. Today we will show you how to make your own simple,
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Wonder Woman Tutorial Series – Part 2
Hi SOLIDWORKS users! Welcome back to our 4-part Wonder Woman tutorial series where we are honoring all you female warriors out there by modeling Diana’s Tiara and Indestructible Bracelets. In part 2 of this series, we’ll finish up modeling Diana’s
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