Design
How to Design a Garage in SOLIDWORKS
If you’re into home improvements like I am, it’s that time of the year to start designing your summer projects. It’s going to be another eventful year at the Tadic household as I plan to have my dream garage/studio built.
... ContinuedHow to Change the Orientation of Imported and Existing SolidWorks Parts
So today I decided to go back thru and revamp one of my old workarounds for SolidWorks that is still relevant today. The article is based on support calls I have seen over the years and that is how to
... ContinuedSolidWorks Part Reviewer: Figure Skate Assembly
Figure Skate Assembly: A shoe model is created for visual reference. It uses a variety of hybrid surface/solid modeling techniques to rough in a representation of an actual shoe. The Figuring Skating Blade uses multi-bodies to represent the assembly in a
... 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: 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: 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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