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How to Use Magnetic Mates | Tech Tip Tuesday
Magnetic mates are an underestimated gem in SOLIDWORKS. In today’s Tech Tip Tuesday, SOLIDWORKS Champion Theodore Chortatsos teaches us how to quickly set up magnetic mates and use them to create a larger assembly. Get more SOLIDWORKS tips and training
... ContinuedToy Toaster Motion Study: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
To begin, I have the part assembled toaster, it is just missing the mechanism parts. You can download the files for the assembly here. When I open the initial assembly, all of the parts are fixed, apart from the toaster dial, this
... 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
... ContinuedSliding Board Book: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
I created this tutorial after reading countless sliding nursery rhyme books for my 10-month-old, I can’t help wondering how would I model this in SOLIDWORKS whenever I play with something that has moving parts. So, for this tutorial I did
... ContinuedToy Garage Assembly: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial Part 2
Welcome to part 2 of 2 for this SOLIDWORKS tutorial to assemble a wooden Toy Garage. In this part of the tutorial I continue to demonstrate the use of all the different mate types including tangent, parallel, distance limit, path.
... 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.
... ContinuedLayered Ceramic Bubble Vase – SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
While studying Design at the University, I really wanted to push the boundaries of ceramics, and use the technologies available to me. I was always interested in the use of plaster mold making and slip casting as a means to
... ContinuedZombie Bat- SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
Welcome to this SOLIDWORKS tutorial for a zombie bat, to begin this assembly, I start by creating a baseball bats profile for revolving. One tip for this part, I advise adding any fillets after you have revolved the part, this makes
... ContinuedToy Balance Scales: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
In this tutorial I wanted to play around with a range of features and tools to create a set of toy balance scales. Within the tutorial I cover a range of things from creating an assembly with several mate types,
... ContinuedCreating and Using Mate References
Applying Mate References to your commonly used parts and assemblies is a great way to automatically mate them together quickly and easily. Mate References allow you to simply drag a part or sub-assembly into an assembly and have it mated
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