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USA Map Puzzle: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
For this tutorial, I wanted to create an education wooden puzzle, so I decided to look at the United States of America. My puzzle was designed and sketched within a vector software, for complex designs like this puzzle I find
... 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
... ContinuedRendering a Toy – SOLIDWORKS Visualize Tutorial
In this tutorial I take you through the steps I take within SOLIDWORKS Visualize to create more professional renderings. This includes editing backgrounds, appearances and decals, camera settings and model placement. You can see below a side-by-side rendering of my wooden toy
... ContinuedDecoding Product Explorer- Retrieving Data from 3DEXPERIENCE Platform
Questions that come to mind for many users who’ve recently migrated from Desktop SOLIDWORKS to cloud is how to retrieve data stored on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform to their local machines. Do you need to open SOLIDWORKS & typically use Pack
... ContinuedAssemble a Toy Donut Shop – SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
For this SOLIDWORKS tutorial, I wanted to take you through the assembly of a toy I designed in SOLIDWORKS, this includes mating fixed and moving parts and applying smart fasteners to hole wizard features. If you would like to play
... Continued3D Mother’s Day Card : SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
I have designed many cards in SOLIDWORKS before, creating a 3D image to render and print flat onto a card, for this Mother’s Day card, I wanted to try something a little different and create the finished card in SOLIDWORKS.
... Continued3D Sculptor xShape Chess Set – SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
In this 3D Experience, xShape tutorial for a chess set, I’ll show you how I modeled the pawn, rook, and knight chess pieces from my set. I’ll be focusing on the use of the crease tool, subdivision extrude and inserting loops.
... Continued3D Sculptor xShape Piggy Bank: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
For this tutorial I used a variety of subdivision shapes including the quad ball, cone, cylinder and torus, or as I like to call the torus a donut. The quad ball is a nice shape to work with as its
... ContinuedFestive Lights Animation: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
I wanted to design a festive tutorial for a light themed animation. To follow this tutorial, you will need to download the lights model and VISUALIZE files here. So, taking a string of lights I designed roughly in SOLIDWORKS I
... ContinuedGingerbread House Cookie Cutter: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
For this festive SOLIDWORKS tutorial see how easy it is to create a Gingerbread House cookie cutter for 3D printing. To follow you will need to download the house DXF file from the SOLIDWORKS blog below, I have also provided my original gingerbread house model for download if you would like this as a starting point to design your own.
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