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SOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Baseball Bat Tutorial
Baseball Bat: This part comes just in time for the baseball playoffs. This part uses a revolve to create the overall shape but sprinkles in a few surface features to create the handle wrap. The surface features include thicken, offset surface,
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Vintage Microphone Tutorial
Vintage Microphone: We are “on the air” with SOLIDWORKS! This multi-body part goes over different pattern and mirroring techniques. It does include a few advanced features including sweeps and a loft. There is an example of a spring created from helix
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Drift Trike – Fork Design
Fork Design The second installment of our series on how to design and build your own Drift Trike, we focus on the Forks. The forks of the trike are used for both supporting the main wheel and being the link to steering
... ContinuedModelling a Drill Bit with a Compound Swept Cut in SOLIDWORKS
Can you model a drill bit? Picturing a drill bit you might be inclined to give a resounding yes, but not so fast! What about those organic compound cuts that neatly taper off, how do you tackle these in the geometric
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Lock Tutorial
Lock: This standard lock illustrates several useful SOLIDWORKS techniques. The bitting sequence of the lock is set with variables in the key part. These numeric values determine the height of the key at each station. A standard station cut is defined, and derived sketches
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Road Bike Wheel Tutorial
Road Bike Wheel: This multi-body part models a road bike wheel. The wheel does includes the inner tube and the tire. The spokes and adjustment nipples are created as separate bodies and then patterned to complete the wheel. Techniques to move and
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Fire Sprinkler Cage Tutorial
Fire Sprinkler Cage: The cage is modeled as a multi-body part using Sweeps along both 2D and 3D sketches. It utilizes circular patterns instead of mirror to emphasize repeated parts. Download: Fire Sprinkler Cage Complexity: Basic Features: 3D spline, sweep, mirror, circular pattern Learn
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