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SolidWorks Part Reviewer: Holiday Ornament
Holiday Ornament: This part showcases how to create a part that parametrically updates however the text is changed. It also uses the new in SolidWorks 2013 Center of Mass feature to parametrically determine the appropriate hanging hook location when the text
... ContinuedSolidWorks Part Reviewer: Nutcracker
Nutcracker: This nutcracker showcases multi-body modeling to create a simple assembly. Revolve and extrude features create the main shapes of the nutcracker. Positions of the handle are represented with configurations and Move Body. Split Lines are used to divide faces of
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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
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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
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Peeler Assembly
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: Simple Machine Part 1
Simple Machine Part 1: This part is a machined part with mainly extrusion and extruded cuts. This sketch uses offset entities using the outside boundaries of the profile feature sketch. Added material using convert and offset entities to follow profile and register
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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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Knife: The sweep shows the use of guide curves to drive the shape of the profile. The goal was to keep basically the same profile shape along the length of the blade, but drive the profile to shrink. Be sure to
... ContinuedSolidWorks Part Reviewer: Window Fan Assembly
Window Fan Assembly: The sketch entities in the sweep path are converted from the Fan-Frame in the context of the top-level Window-Fan assembly. Note that the sweep path is to the outside of the part. It is a general best practice
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