Author Archives: SOLIDWORKS
SolidWorks Part Reviewer: Forged Hook Assembly
Forged Hook Assembly: A surface loft forms the main surface of the hook. A loft is used instead of a sweep so that the dimensions from the 4 intermediate sections can be inserted into the drawing. A sweep would not have
... ContinuedSolidWorks Part Reviewer: Glass with Controlled Edges
Glass with Controlled Edges: It is a good best practice to create a central axis for circular features when working on complication “revolved” parts. This should be reference for all circular features instead of sketch center lines, model faces or edges,
... ContinuedSolidWorks Part Reviewer: Football Helmet
Football Helmet: While it would be easier to to use the side profile and bottom profile as direction 1 curves, and the middle profile for direction 2, the result would be a 3-sided surface with bad flow of the UV curves (all
... ContinuedSolidWorks Part Reviewer: Imported Sheet Metal
Sheet Metal: The imported sheetmetal model was mostly valid . After using Insert>Sheet Metal>Bends, the part would *mostly* unfold if received in STEP or Parasolid. There was nothing we could do to make it, or even a section of it, unfold
... ContinuedSolidWorks Part Reviewer: Hammer
Hammer: An extrude is used instead of a revolve to form the head of the hammer as proper draft for forging can be built into the extrude sketch but not the sketch for a revolve. A cut is used to shape the
... ContinuedSolidWorks Part Reviewer: Reverse Engineered Propeller
Reverse Engineered Propeller: This part is modeling differently from most SolidWorks parts. Because the model is a reverse engineer of an existing part using 3D scan data, design intent will not be built into the part. Many sketches will not be
... ContinuedSolidWorks Part Reviewer: Soccer Ball
Soccer Ball: Let’s have some fun! When you download this part you will learn how a soccer ball is created and learn the design process while doing so. You start off creating four planar triangles, linking the rectangles in the
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Cartoon Dog Head Tutorial
Cartoon Dog Head: This Part is a multi-body solid which was created using mostly surface bodies with a few solid features added toward the end of the modeling process. There is a two section loft that uses a technique where a
... ContinuedSolidWorks Part Reviewer: Golf ball
Golf Ball: The location of the dimples on the golf ball will be based on a icosahedron: a polyhedron with 20 triangular faces, 30 edges and 12 vertices. The insert part feature is used to bring a completed icosahedron model into
... ContinuedSolidWorks Part Reviewer: Varying Dimension Patterns
2013 Feature, Varying Dimension Patterns: This single body part is used to show multiple examples of Varying Dimension Patterns. This new functionality is available starting in SolidWorks 2013. Vary Dimension Patterns are available for both Extruded and Revolved Boss and
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