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SOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Moderate Machine Part 6 Tutorial
Moderate Machine Part 6: This is a machined part that has mostly extruded features with a few revolved features and one lofted cut. This part is symmetric mostly symmetric about the Front and Right Planes with exception of the side
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Simple Sheet Metal Part 3: The sheetmetal featue in SOLIDWORKS determines the thickness and bend radius; 12 gauge steel is used for this model. L shape sketch creates one bend in the base feature.This Sheet metal part is centered on the
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Self Centering Ring: The sketch for this shutoff cut predicts the fillets used to finish off the hole. You will need to ensure that the shutoff hole is large enough so these fillets don’t create undercuts. Download: Self Centering Ring Complexity:
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SonicWeld Housing: The real trick to the outer shape of this housing is the use of layout sketches to figure out how to bow the front but maintain the visual ‘straightness’ of the sides when viewed straight on. This requires
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Simple Surface Part 4: Only build one half of the geometry then mirror about Right Plane.This model was created using only surface body features and then is turned into a solid using a Thicken command. Check out the Simple Surface Part 1, Part
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Mounting Bracket: This part shows how to use thin extrude features to model a metal part then how to convert the model into a sheet metal part that can be flattened in SOLIDWORKS. This basic shape was created using the thin extrude
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Complex Sheet Metal Part 3: Sheet metal features are used so that the part can be flattened out to create a flat pattern. The base flange was built it flat state to ensure correct footprint. A 90 Degree Sketched Bend
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Sword Chair: This fun assembly shows the use of various techniques to give the appearance of over a hundred swords comprising the chair without having to actually place all those swords one by one. The challenge with this chair was to not have to
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Simple Weldment Part 6: A weldment is an object made up of several parts welded together.This structural member uses Al L Angle (rounded ends) for its profile. This three member group was made in one group because they are all connected
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Molded Pulp: This part demonstrate some of the techniques used to create molded pulp packaging. There are three configurations for this pulp packaging model including one used to create the actual tooling for the pulp part. There are some unique features included with this model including
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