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SOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Normal Cut Clip Tutorial
Normal Cut Clip: The Normal Cut option is used to extrude a cut through a sheet metal bend to create geometry that will be correctly elongated when the part is flattened. It is critical to know that leaving Normal Cut disabled would
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Fillet to a Sphere Tutorial
Fillet to a Sphere: The most obvious way to create a sphere is sketch a half circle and use the revolve feature to create the sphere. However, it turns out that it’s possible to turn a cube into a sphere using
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Water Filter Cap Tutorial
Water Filter Cap: This part was inspired by the water filter cap on a refrigerator. Due to the deep shutoff that creates the handle, the parting line of this part could have been really challenging to model. Using Split Part offered
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Fire Sprinkler Cage Tutorial
Fire Sprinkler Cage: The cage is modeled as a multi-body part using Sweeps along both 2D and 3D sketches. It utilizes circular patterns instead of mirror to emphasize repeated parts. Download: Fire Sprinkler Cage Complexity: Basic Features: 3D spline, sweep, mirror, circular pattern Learn
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Metal Clip Tutorial
Metal Clip: SOLIDWORKS sheet metal is used to deliver a flat pattern. Areas with distortion that cannot be unfolded by SolidWorks sheetmetal are modeled separately in both the folded and the flat configurations to get a pretty accurate flat pattern
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Wall Cabinet Tutorial
Wall Cabinet: This two part assembly of a wall cabinet is made up of the wall cabinet and the cabinet doors. The wall cabinet part uses a Multi-Contour Sketch to create the first three vertical extrusions. Since the doors are
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: To-Go Box Tutorial
To-Go Box: The paper-fiber “To-Go” Box is modeled in the open position in which it would be formed. To validate the design, a flex feature is used to close the box along its hinge. Download the part now to get started
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Silicone BBQ Brush Tutorial
Silicone BBQ Brush: This assembly is a model of a Silicone BBQ Basting Brush. The handle of the brush is made using Sweep and Surface Loft. Sketch relations are used to calculate the location of the seed bristle. Linear Pattern
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Blow Molded Storage Case Tutorial
Blow Molded Storage Case: This model of a blow molded storage case is created with Boss-Extrude and Fillet features to begin the exterior of the case. The pockets of the storage case are made with the Cut-Extrude feature utilized. The
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Mouse Assembly Tutorial
Mouse Assembly: This 11 piece assembly is a model of a computer mouse. The bottom housing of this assembly is created with Surface Knit and Body-Move/Copy. The mouse buttons use Surface Fill and Surface Trim. The mouse wheel is made with
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