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3D Sculptor xShape Chess Set – SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
In this 3D Experience, xShape tutorial for a chess set, I’ll show you how I modeled the pawn, rook, and knight chess pieces from my set. I’ll be focusing on the use of the crease tool, subdivision extrude and inserting loops.
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS® Support Monthly News – April 2023
Hello to all, Welcome to the new edition of the SOLIDWORKS® Support Monthly News! This monthly news blog is co-authored by members of the SOLIDWORKS® Technical Support teams worldwide. Here is the list of topics covered in this month’s Blog
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS® Support Monthly News – March 2023
Hello to all, Welcome to the new edition of the SOLIDWORKS® Support Monthly News! This monthly news blog is co-authored by members of the SOLIDWORKS® Technical Support teams worldwide. Here is the list of topics covered in this month’s Blog
... Continued3D Sculptor xShape Piggy Bank: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
For this tutorial I used a variety of subdivision shapes including the quad ball, cone, cylinder and torus, or as I like to call the torus a donut. The quad ball is a nice shape to work with as its
... ContinuedFestive Lights Animation: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
I wanted to design a festive tutorial for a light themed animation. To follow this tutorial, you will need to download the lights model and VISUALIZE files here. So, taking a string of lights I designed roughly in SOLIDWORKS I
... ContinuedGingerbread House Cookie Cutter: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
For this festive SOLIDWORKS tutorial see how easy it is to create a Gingerbread House cookie cutter for 3D printing. To follow you will need to download the house DXF file from the SOLIDWORKS blog below, I have also provided my original gingerbread house model for download if you would like this as a starting point to design your own.
... ContinuedSliding Board Book: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
I created this tutorial after reading countless sliding nursery rhyme books for my 10-month-old, I can’t help wondering how would I model this in SOLIDWORKS whenever I play with something that has moving parts. So, for this tutorial I did
... ContinuedApplying 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
... ContinuedBook Storage Options using Configurations: SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
When I’m designing for a client, I am usually given a brief to work towards, from the brief I like to create varied options within the brief guidelines to give the client choices, The choices can involve subtle changes within
... ContinuedToy 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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