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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.
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS for Makers Tutorial: Designing and making custom cookie cutters
Halloween is upon us and with my young nephews staying for the weekend I’m looking for any way possible to stop them from wrecking my house. To do so I decided it might be time for us have a dig
... ContinuedFestive Ornaments Tutorial for 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS for Makers
As the festive period is now upon us, I thought it was time that I got inspired and began what has become an annual tradition for a new festive project. This year’s project took the form of some cool tree
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Retro Craft Christmas Tree Tutorial
Retro Craft Christmas Tree: This fun sample part shows some easy to understand surface modeling techniques. It is a multi-body part that uses both solid and surface modeling methods to create the geometry. There is one sketch driven pattern that uses equations
... ContinuedHoliday Yard Decoration – Part II
In today’s blog we will continue working on our epic decoration by lighting it up using the power of SOLIDWORKS Electrical and then we will render our creation in SOLIDWORKS Visualize so that we can truly appreciate its beauty.
... ContinuedFestive Toy Baking Set Tutorial
In this SOLIDWORKS tutorial create a festive toy baking set, the set includes a rolling pin, baking tray, cookies and cutters. Learn some sketch techniques such as circular pattern, dynamic mirror entities and offset entities.
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Honeycomb Foil Ornament
Honeycomb Foil Ornament: This is a foil or paper honeycomb ornament. A little computer intensive due to its large patterns, but worth the wait. This model uses boundary surfaces to create a diamond shape. That diamond is then patterned in two
... ContinuedFestive Ceramic Plate Tutorial
In this SOLIDWORKS tutorial for a Festive Ceramic Cookie Plate, we will demonstrate the use of wrap feature against spline surfaces to create an embossed plate design. An imported DXF file is used to create a multiple wraps to create the final holly design.
... ContinuedDecorating for the Holidays the SOLIDWORKS Electrical Way
In this blog, we will step through the process of drawing schematics of holiday lights in SOLIDWORKS Electrical and bringing those schematics to life in SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D.
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Partridge in A Pear Tree
Partridge in a Pear Tree: This fun part has two configurations showing the collapsed and open states of the geometry. The geometry in this part acts similar to a pop up greeting card. One angle dimension in the base sketch controls
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