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SolidWorks Part Reviewer: Fork
Fork: In this part a chamfer on the handle washes out, fades to nothing. This model will show you how to handle those sharp edge to nothing transitions, seamlessly. Download: Moderate_Fork Complexity: Moderate Features used: Boundary Surface, Surface Fill, Thicken, Surface Loft. Learn
... ContinuedSolidWorks Part Reviewer: Moderate Sheetmetal Part 1
Moderate Sheetmetal Part 1: Base Flange/Tab feature can be used not only as the first feature but can used to add more material at the same thickness as rest of part. Note: Be careful, hems add material. Make sure it unfolds. Download: moderate
... ContinuedSolidWorks Part Reviewer: Knife
Knife: The sweep shows the use of guide curves to drive the shape of the profile. The goal was to keep basically the same profile shape along the length of the blade, but drive the profile to shrink. Be sure to
... ContinuedSolidWorks Part Reviewer: Window Fan Assembly
Window Fan Assembly: The sketch entities in the sweep path are converted from the Fan-Frame in the context of the top-level Window-Fan assembly. Note that the sweep path is to the outside of the part. It is a general best practice
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Simple Weldment Part 1
Simple Weldment Part 1: The first structural member used is rectangular tubing. The four pieces are made as one group because they are connected end to end. A weldment is an object made up of several parts welded together. SOLIDWORKS represent this
... ContinuedSolidWorks Part Reviewer: Electric Guitar Assembly
Electric Guitar: This assembly showcases models using several techniques for modeling complex shapes in SolidWorks. Techniques shown in the models are using the table driven pattern, Filleting tricks, and hybrid surface-solid part modeling. Download: Electric Guitar Assembly Complexity: Complex Features used: Boundary Surface,
... 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: 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: 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
... ContinuedSolidWorks Part Reviewer: Intersect
2013 Feature, Intersect: A standard Solid Body Revolve Feature is used to create the base geometry. This part will have multiple bodies(both solid and surface) combined into one body using the new for SolidWorks 2013 “Intersect” Command. Download: SWWN2013Intersect Complexity: Basic
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