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SOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Tomato Tutorial
Tomato: However you say tomato, this is a fun part to review how it was built. This part has some surface features including Boundary Surface, Thicken and a Mutual Trim. Download the free part below to get started! Download: TOMATO Complexity: Moderate
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Grill Spatula Tutorial
Grill Spatula: Because of the complex bends that are added to strengthen the sheet metal, the spatula is modeled as a surface body and then thickened. This is a multi-body part consisting of all the parts that will be assembled
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Grill Tongs Tutorial
Grill Tongs: The tongs use a layout sketch to control the major dimension and shape of the part. This allows the designer to easily make changes to the model without any major rebuild errors. The tongs are modeled as a multi-body part
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Sand Cast Bottle Opener Tutorial
Sand Cast Bottle Opener: This sand cast aluminum bottle opener shows techniques to create surface features that maintain correct draft at the parting line. It also discusses how to add text with draft on non-planar surfaces. Download the free part below
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Sand Castle Bucket Part 2 Tutorial
Sand Castle Bucket Part 2: In continuation of our first summer post last Saturday, here is the second Sand castle Bucket in the 2-part series. The sand castle bucket demonstrates the usefulness of a layout sketch to control features. Since the
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Sand Castle Bucket Part 1 Tutorial
Sand Castle Bucket Part 1: Since today is the first official day of summer, I am celebrating by posting a 2-part sand castle bucket set this week. The sand castle bucket demonstrates the usefulness of a layout sketch to control features.
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Adze Tool Tutorial
Adze Tool: This wood carving tool is a multi-body solid part which uses both solid and surface features to create the geometry. This half hammer, half ax looking tool has examples of many surface features including extrudes, cuts, offset surfaces, extends,
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Compost Bin Tutorial
Compost Bin Assembly: This two-bay compost bin shows how to create a library of custom weldment profiles so the SOLIDWORKS weldment environment can be used to quickly design a wood structure. Download the assembly below to get started! Download: Compost Bin Complexity:
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Ring Tutorial
Ring: This single body part has an example of a Wrap feature using text and has curvature continuous Face Fillets. This part has an example of an equation driven layout sketch to help visualize the text “unwrapped”. Download the file and modify the text to
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