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SOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Hood Bird Ornament Tutorial
Hood Bird Ornament: This 50’s style hood ornament is a challenging part that has only a handful of flat surfaces.It was constructed mostly using surface features. There are only four extruded bosses in the entire part and three of those are
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Volume Variable Bottle Tutorial
Volume Variable Bottle: This bottle will take advantage of symmetry whenever possible.The bottle will have three solid bodies to help make the internal volume easier to calculate. A Helix Circle Plane is used to create the circle used to set the size
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Impeller Tutorial
Impeller: This single body part starts as a multi-body and shows how to use body patterns to control geometry in ways that feature patterns can’t always do. This part includes two body patterns, surface cuts, helix curves and a Combine feature.
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Wire Whisk Assembly Tutorial
Wire Whisk Assembly: This wire kitchen whisk demonstrates insert molding of the wire whisks and hook into the interior handle shafts. Also, the wire whisk body is patterned in a circle and move/copied to the correct height offset. Download: Wire Whisk Complexity: Moderate
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS 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: 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
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