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SOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Helical Washer Tutorial
Helical Washer: When creating the helix feature, the number of revolutions has to be less or equal to one. A helix feature with a revolution larger than one will cause the flat pattern to overlap on itself causing an error in
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Moderate Machine Part 3 Tutorial
Moderate Machine Part 3: This part is created by using mostly extruded features with some revolves and one lofted cut. The use of convert entities allows for the perimeter wall geometry to update automatically if there are design changes of
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Flux Capacitor Assembly Tutorial
Flux Capacitor: It’s back to the future with this assembly! The Flux Capacitor …it’s what makes time travel possible. This fun but also educational assembly has a few unique features in some of the parts. A split line curve is used
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Blade Tutorial
Blade: The sketch for the thin-feature is oriented so the Flat Pattern is parallel to the Top Plane. The interior is stamped out to reduce the amount of material that needs to be removed during the grinding operation. The fillet
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Impeller Tutorial
Impeller: This single body part starts as a multi-body and shows how to use body patterns to control geometry in ways that feature patterns can’t always do. This part includes two body patterns, surface cuts, helix curves and a Combine feature.
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Wire Whisk Assembly Tutorial
Wire Whisk Assembly: This wire kitchen whisk demonstrates insert molding of the wire whisks and hook into the interior handle shafts. Also, the wire whisk body is patterned in a circle and move/copied to the correct height offset. Download: Wire Whisk Complexity: Moderate
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Normal Cut Clip Tutorial
Normal Cut Clip: The Normal Cut option is used to extrude a cut through a sheet metal bend to create geometry that will be correctly elongated when the part is flattened. It is critical to know that leaving Normal Cut disabled would
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Water Filter Cap Tutorial
Water Filter Cap: This part was inspired by the water filter cap on a refrigerator. Due to the deep shutoff that creates the handle, the parting line of this part could have been really challenging to model. Using Split Part offered
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Fire Sprinkler Cage Tutorial
Fire Sprinkler Cage: The cage is modeled as a multi-body part using Sweeps along both 2D and 3D sketches. It utilizes circular patterns instead of mirror to emphasize repeated parts. Download: Fire Sprinkler Cage Complexity: Basic Features: 3D spline, sweep, mirror, circular pattern Learn
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Metal Clip Tutorial
Metal Clip: SOLIDWORKS sheet metal is used to deliver a flat pattern. Areas with distortion that cannot be unfolded by SolidWorks sheetmetal are modeled separately in both the folded and the flat configurations to get a pretty accurate flat pattern
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