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SOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Battery Hold Down Assembly Tutorial
Battery Hold Down: This assembly is used to lock an automotive battery in place. It has six unique components in it. There is one example of external references in the hold down part. The hold down bar includes a FEA static
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Shower Caddy Tutorial
Shower Caddy: To simplify references, all of the individual wires that compose the weldment are created within the same part but their bodies are not merged. Projected Curves are used to construct some of the 3D paths for the swept
... 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
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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.
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Simple Weldment Part 5 : A weldment is an object made up of several parts welded together. SOLIDWORKS represents this model as multibody solid Not as an assembly. The first structural member used is Al Channel. The four pieces are made as one
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Piggy Bank Tutorial
Piggy Bank: Let’s have a little fun and create a toy that’s a blast from our past! Download this FREE part and go through the step by step process on how this object was created. In addition, I would love to
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Simple Sheet Metal Tutorial Part 2
Simple Sheet Metal Part 2: This part is centered with respect to the Right Plane and Sheet Metal features are used so that the part can be flattened out to create a flat pattern. This is part two in a six
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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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Simple Weldment Part 4: This part is an object made up of several parts welded together. SOLIDWORKS representS this model as a multibody solid NOT as an assembly. The first structural member is using square tubing. Download the part below to learn the
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Simple Sheet Metal Part 1 Tutorial
Simple Sheet Metal Part 1: This sheet metal part has a feature that determines the thickness and bend radius. A 14 Gauge Aluminum was used for this model. The Sheetmetal part is symmetric with respect to the right plane except for the
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