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SOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Moderate Machine Part 6 Tutorial
Moderate Machine Part 6: This is a machined part that has mostly extruded features with a few revolved features and one lofted cut. This part is symmetric mostly symmetric about the Front and Right Planes with exception of the side
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Simple Sheet Metal Part 3: The sheetmetal featue in SOLIDWORKS determines the thickness and bend radius; 12 gauge steel is used for this model. L shape sketch creates one bend in the base feature.This Sheet metal part is centered on the
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Self Centering Ring: The sketch for this shutoff cut predicts the fillets used to finish off the hole. You will need to ensure that the shutoff hole is large enough so these fillets don’t create undercuts. Download: Self Centering Ring Complexity:
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Sword Chair: This fun assembly shows the use of various techniques to give the appearance of over a hundred swords comprising the chair without having to actually place all those swords one by one. The challenge with this chair was to not have to
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Armored Mask: This multi-body solid part uses solid and surfaces body features to create the geometry. This fun but challenging model has several different examples of surface features including surface boundaries, surface trim, offset surface, knit surface, filled surface, thicken and
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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
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Complex Surface Part 2: This part uses almost all surface body features. Almost all surfaces are curved surfaces even the front surface is not flat. The only flat surfaces are the side profiles and inside slider opening. Side trims are
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Simple Surface Part 3: This cover plate is an example of a part created without using any solid body features. The Upper Profile is a spline for continuous curvature. A projected curve feature is used to create two sketches in order
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Complex Sheet Metal Part 2: This sheet metal part is symmetric vertically with respect to the right plane. The sheet metal features are used so that the part can be flattened out to create a flat pattern. The base flange/tab feature
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Dodecahedron Tutorial
Dodecahedron: This part demonstrates the use of sketch relations to calculate angles and vertices. The solution to modeling a dodecahedron is surprisingly simple and elegant. Modeling a dodecahedron looks like it should be a complicated task involving creating multiple planes and
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