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Perpetual Flip Calendar: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

By Jade Wilson December 30, 2022
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Perpetual Flip Calendar: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

To celebrate the New Year I wanted to create a 3d perpetual calendar to make a countdown animation. Before starting this tutorial, download the parts here. The calendar is made up of a case that hold the two induvial day dials, the months

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Applying Custom Decals to Toy Grocery Set: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

By Jade Wilson November 25, 2022
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Applying Custom Decals to Toy Grocery Set: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

In this tutorial I wanted to demonstrate how I take my custom designed decals and apply them to parts using 3 mapping options; Label, Projection and Cylindrical. I decided to create a simple wooden toy grocery set to apply the

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Toy Garage Assembly: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial Part 2

By Jade Wilson November 11, 2022
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Toy 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.

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Toy Garage Assembly: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial Part 1

By Jade Wilson November 4, 2022
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Toy Garage Assembly: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial Part 1

For this tutorial I designed and modelled a wooden Toy Garage, that includes all original decals applied to each part. The garage was modelled in SOLIDWORKS as a Part file, all the separate solid bodies were then exported as new

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Toy Ironing Board Animation- SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

By Jade Wilson October 21, 2022
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Toy Ironing Board Animation- SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

I have designed ironing boards in the past as a toy designer, and something I would have to test for is how the toy would open/close, and at what height it would be for a child to play with the

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Layered Ceramic Bubble Vase – SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

By Jade Wilson October 14, 2022
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Layered 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

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Toy Balance Scales: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

By Jade Wilson July 18, 2022
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Toy 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,

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Be A Better Machine Designer with SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal

By TPM June 22, 2020
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Be A Better Machine Designer with SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal

What separates the average machine designer from an expert designer? The work speaks for itself when everything fits together like it is supposed to. If you have ever witnessed someone bang or smack sheet metal parts to get the desired

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Confusing SOLIDWORKS Configurations?

By Solid Solutions Technical Team April 3, 2017
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Confusing SOLIDWORKS Configurations?

If you do a range of similar products, you will know that configurations of your parts will save you a whole lot of work on a daily basis, but once you have started putting these parts into assemblies it can

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Millions of Free SOLIDWORKS Models on 3D ContentCentral

By Josh Altergott February 15, 2017
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Millions of Free SOLIDWORKS Models on 3D ContentCentral

I had a customer the other day who was looking for some standard parts to add to his SOLIDWORKS assemblies and the only information he could find was 2D data when doing internet searches. I asked him if he had

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