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Christmas Tree Bell Run: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
This tutorial was inspired by a recent 3DExperience Challenge. The challenge was to create a model inspired by the Fibonacci sequence in SOLIDWORKS and then render a high-quality 2D image with the help of 3DEXCITE’s xStudio rendering software. You can see my entry rendering below.
... ContinuedToy Birthday Cake: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
In this SOLIDWORKS Tutorial to create a Toy Birthday Cake, this tutorial demonstrates a range of features from adding new planes, flexing, circular pattern, dome, inserting dxf files and adding custom decals. The decals and dxf files used in this tutorial will be available to download from the blog description. The tutorial involves creating five parts to create a final assembled toy birthday cake.
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Tutorial: Educational Fractions Wooden Puzzle
For this tutorial, I designed a 21-piece educational wooden fractions puzzle which includes a knife. Through exploratory play, children will recognize that fractions are equal parts that make up a whole, they can learn about fractions in a way that
... ContinuedxShape Halloween Game: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
For this tutorial I decided to design a game with a Halloween theme, I also wanted it to be quite small and easy to 3D print, so I came up with this Tic Tac Toe game. xShape was easily the
... Continued3D Printed Autumn Rolling Pin: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
I’m always looking at fun ways of using SOLIDWORKS, 3D printing and baking, plus autumn is one of my favorite seasons, so I decided to design an autumnal themed rolling pin. The rolling pin can be used for rolling out
... ContinuedS’mores Toy Tips & Tricks: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
For this tutorial, I designed a s’mores themed wooden toy. In this tutorial I will feature some of the tools I used to create the 3 parts of the s’more; the cracker, chocolate bar and marshmallow. At the end of
... ContinuedWooden Biscuit Cogs Toy – SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
For this tasty biscuit themed tutorial, I wanted to play around with modeling custom cogs for a wooden toy design. If you are following this tutorial, you will need to download the files here There are two different sized cogs
... ContinuedCreate a Cactus: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
For this SOLIDWORKS tutorial you will need to download the cactus pot and cactus spike parts from the SOLIDWORKS blog below. In this tutorial I am going to demonstrate the use of loft using normal to profile constraints. I will also show you how to use component patterns within an assembly to add the spike onto the cactus.
... ContinuedRainbow Cloud Baby Mobile Tutorial – Part 2
This is part 2 of a 2 part tutorial for a Rainbow Cloud Baby Mobile. For part 2, we will create an assembly using parts designed in part 1 of the tutorial. The assembly will then be used to run a motion analysis of the mobile using motors. The music box part and rainbow decal seen in the tutorial is available to download from the SOLIDWORKS blog.
... ContinuedRainbow Cloud Baby Mobile Tutorial – Part 1
In this 2 Part tutorial for a Rainbow Cloud Baby Mobile, you can learn how to create the mobile parts for an assembly. The assembly will then be used to run a motion analysis of the mobile using motors. The music box part and rainbow decal seen in the tutorial is available to download from the SOLIDWORKS blog.
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