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Create 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.
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Record Player Tutorial
Record Player: The first record players are over 140 years old and are still unbelievably in use, in one form or another, today. This model is a little flashback of some old school music history. This is a multi-body solid created
... ContinuedPower Surfacing for Automotive Applications
Let’s face it – we all wanted to be car designers from our earliest days, many of us have drawn all manners of cars and imagined all sorts of fantastical vehicles – mainly ugly ones in my case! Designing car bodies
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis Tutorial – Part 4
On May 20th and 21st, 1927 Charles Lindbergh, aka “Lucky Lindy”, made history by completing the first solo, nonstop, transatlantic flight; piloting his monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis, from Long Island, New York to Paris, France. To celebrate the
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis Tutorial – Part 2
On May 20th and 21st, 1927 Charles Lindbergh, aka “Lucky Lindy”, made history by completing the first solo, nonstop, transatlantic flight; piloting his monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis, from Long Island, New York to Paris, France. To celebrate the
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis Tutorial – Part 1
On May 20th and 21st, 1927 Charles Lindbergh, aka “Lucky Lindy”, made history by completing the first solo, nonstop, transatlantic flight; piloting his monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis, from Long Island, New York to Paris, France. To celebrate the
... ContinuedModelling a Paddle in SOLIDWORKS – Basic and Advanced Lofting
SOLIDWORKS is a powerful tool for creating parts and features with complex geometries and structures. If you know how to use it, the process to create these shapes can be quick and very effective. Stuart, one of Cadtek’s Elite Application Engineers, will
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Golden Icosahedron Tutorial
Golden Icosahedron: This model is a icosahedron which is a polyhedron with twenty faces. The twenty triangular faces have five faces meeting at each vertex. Construction Surfaces(Golden Rectangles) are used to start the model. These rectangles are used to create the individual triangular
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Cartoon Dog Head Tutorial
Cartoon Dog Head: This Part is a multi-body solid which was created using mostly surface bodies with a few solid features added toward the end of the modeling process. There is a two section loft that uses a technique where a
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