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SOLIDWORKS Juice Dispenser Tutorial – Part 3
It’s that time of year, the kids have just head back to school and they are growing like weeds! In an effort to teach the kids a bit more independence, we are designing and 3D printing a custom juice dispenser
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Packing Tape Dispenser Tutorial
Packing Tape Dispenser: This familiar tool in your office has been created as a single part to showcase a wide variety of SOLIDWORKS features. We combine sheet metal, plastic and a few surface features to give you several unique examples
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Toothbrush Tutorial
Toothbrush: This multi-body part shows how to use a Layout Sketch and two Sketch Pictures to help guide and setup downstream features. This part has several patterns including multiple fill patterns used to create the bristles. There are examples of the
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS 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: 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: 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: Complex Surface Part 1 Tutorial
Complex Surface Part 1: This part only has one flat face where the LCD screen is located; it is created using only surface body features. The ruled surface acts like a sweep in the case, but you don’t have to sketch
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Complex Surface Part 5: This extrusion represents the outside profile of this shelled out part. This model demonstrates Hybrid Modeling (use of both Solid and Surface Bodies to create geometry). When the Trim command knits the surfaces together as part of
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Handle With Overmold Tutorial
Handle With Overmold: This part uses a surface extrude with draft to ensure the correct draft angle at the parting line, which is the right plane on this part. A boundary surface is created from the edge of the Control Grip
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Volume Variable Bottle Tutorial
Volume Variable Bottle: This bottle will take advantage of symmetry whenever possible.The bottle will have three solid bodies to help make the internal volume easier to calculate. A Helix Circle Plane is used to create the circle used to set the size
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