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SOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Housing Snap Hook Tutorial
Housing Snap Hook: To begin, a Boss Extrude is used as the main body exterior shape. Fillets are used to refine the exterior shape of the model. The Insert Part feature is used to make the Power Prong. Another Boss Extrude
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Spiral Ornament Tutorial
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 and
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Plastic Sled Tutorial
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
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Figure Skate Assembly
Figure Skate: Get in the holiday spirit with some ice skating! 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
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Bleach Bottle Tutorial
Bleach Bottle: In this model, boundary surfaces are between 3 profiles and 2 guide curves. One of the guide curves is the edge of the Helper surface extrude. This insures correct draft angle throughout the surface. A boundary surface builds the
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Wire Belt Tutorial
Wire Belt: The Wire Profile Plane creates the wire size of the belt, the overall width of the belt, the number of segments of the belt, and the desired tolerance between each link in the belt. A final variable, belt spacing,
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Tetrapod Weldment Tutorial
Tetrapod Weldment: To begin, the tetrapod leg is inserted into this weldment as a part. The Cap Plane feature creates a plane for the planar caps. Considering the intended construction is welding together the sheet metal legs – two of the
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Witch Head Assembly Tutorial
Witch Head: Happy Halloween! This two part assembly uses solid and surfaces body features to create the geometry. This fun model has several different examples of surface features including surface lofts and boundaries, surface trim, offset surface, knit surface, filled surface, thicken and
... 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
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