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SOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Helical Washer Tutorial
Helical Washer: When creating the helix feature, the number of revolutions has to be less or equal to one. A helix feature with a revolution larger than one will cause the flat pattern to overlap on itself causing an error in
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Blade Tutorial
Blade: The sketch for the thin-feature is oriented so the Flat Pattern is parallel to the Top Plane. The interior is stamped out to reduce the amount of material that needs to be removed during the grinding operation. The fillet
... 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: 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: Surfboard Tutorial
Surfboard: This Shark Week featured model is a surfboard with a shark bite taken out of it. A simple Boss-Extrude is used to make the board. Cut-Extrude and Curve Driven Pattern create the shark bite into the board. A logo is
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Bracelet Tutorial
Bracelet: This is the second part to the Women in Engineering feature this week. This model is a bracelet that uses Revolve-Thin to create the bangles. A letter or shape can personalize this bracelet with this tutorial using a letter C.
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Necklace: This is a model of a diamond necklace. Revolve-Thin was used to create the choker-like design of the necklace. The diamond was created using an multi-directional Boss-Extrude function. Be sure to check back this weekend for the second part to this Women in
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Water Bottle Cage Tutorial
Water Bottle Cage: This Water Bottle Cage demonstrates using “Spline on Surface” to get the outline of the wireform used to hold a water bottle on a bike. It also demonstrates the setting for guiding a sweep along an adjacent
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Pastry Blender Tutorial
Pastry Blender: Modeled the way it is manufactured, the blades of this pastry cutter are cut in the flat pattern then folded to create the final shape. This creates smoother edges than other possible modeling methods. Sketched Bend forms all 5
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