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SolidWorks Part Reviewer: Plastic Sled
Plastic Sled: This sled incorporates some flowing curves along the length of the sled that step downward to create an interesting, cascading side wall. The inside of this sled is modeled from a block and then shelled on the outside of
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Hockey Stick: This hockey stick blade model makes use of a layout sketch to drive projected curves. The projected curves are used to create boundary surfaces that form the blade. The hockey stick is made from three components: a molded
... ContinuedSolidWorks Part Reviewer: Moderate Sheetmetal Part 2
Moderate Sheetmetal Part 2: Sheetmetal features determine the thickness and bend radius. For this part, we are usinging 10 Gauge Aluminum. We started this sheetmetal part with mid plane extrusion to center about the Front Plane. The sheetmetal features are used
... ContinuedSolidWorks Part Reviewer: Figure Skate Assembly
Figure Skate Assembly: A shoe model is created for visual reference. It uses a variety of hybrid surface/solid modeling techniques to rough in a representation of an actual shoe. The Figuring Skating Blade uses multi-bodies to represent the assembly in a
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Butter Knife Tutorial
Knife: High gloss parts can be challenging to model with good transitions between surfaces. This model shows good ways to blend surfaces together. It also contains a pattern along a curve for the serration edge. Download: Knife Complexity: Moderate Features used: Boundary Surface,
... ContinuedSolidWorks Part Reviewer: Spiral Ornament
Spiral Ornament: This is a blow molded ornament with spiral stripes. This model shows a clever way to generate a spiral that conforms to a bulbous shape. Another interesting modeling technique is the washout of the spiral profiles at the top
... ContinuedSolidWorks Part Reviewer: Spoon
Spoon: In this part a chamfer on the handle washes out, fades to nothing. This model will show you how to handle those sharp edge fade outs, seamlessly. It also illustrates how to patch bad geometry created from the thicken. Download: Spoon
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Peeler Assembly: In this part we chose to do a surface cut instead of sweeping a solid cut in case we need to make adjustments after a design review. The cut with surface is very flexible, and it allows stable
... ContinuedSolidWorks Part Reviewer: Fork
Fork: In this part a chamfer on the handle washes out, fades to nothing. This model will show you how to handle those sharp edge to nothing transitions, seamlessly. Download: Moderate_Fork Complexity: Moderate Features used: Boundary Surface, Surface Fill, Thicken, Surface Loft. Learn
... ContinuedSolidWorks Part Reviewer: Moderate Sheetmetal Part 1
Moderate Sheetmetal Part 1: Base Flange/Tab feature can be used not only as the first feature but can used to add more material at the same thickness as rest of part. Note: Be careful, hems add material. Make sure it unfolds. Download: moderate
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