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SOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Mounting Bracket Tutorial
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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Simple Machine Part 5: This is a machined part that has mostly extruded features and some hole wizard holes. Start by building half the part symmetric with Right Plane. Tangent on the right side of sketch using centerline so mirrored cut geometry will
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Housing with Complex Filleting: The housing is modeled in half with the intention to mirror the body to create the other half at the end. The side face is deleted as the first step in modeling the ‘swoosh’ detail in the
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Moderate Machine Part 5: This is a machined part that has mostly extruded features with a few revolved features and one lofted cut. Start with either a boss extrude or the revolve feature. The “Merge Results” option is turned on to
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Cover: This feature uses the lower left hand corner as a common origin with all components within the entire assembly. Alignment features are mounted. Outside edge Fillets are used as well as mounting fillets for the outside edges. The
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Armored Mask: This multi-body solid part uses solid and surfaces body features to create the geometry. This fun but challenging model has several different examples of surface features including surface boundaries, surface trim, offset surface, knit surface, filled surface, thicken and
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