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SOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Holiday Ornament Tutorial
Holiday Ornament: This part showcases how to create a part that parametrically updates however the text is changed. It also uses the Center of Mass feature to parametrically determine the appropriate hanging hook location when the text is changed. Download: Holiday Ornament
... ContinuedHow To Show Cosmetic Threads
Threads are important features on many components and need to be displayed in your Engineering drawings so that the parts are manufactured correctly. How are they displayed and what is the best way of displaying them? You can model a
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Figure Skate Assembly
Figure Skate: Get in the holiday spirit with some ice skating! A shoe model is created for visual reference. It uses a variety of hybrid surface/solid modeling techniques to rough in a representation of an actual shoe. The Figuring Skating
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Hood Bird Ornament Tutorial
Hood Bird Ornament: This 50’s style hood ornament is a challenging part that has only a handful of flat surfaces.It was constructed mostly using surface features. There are only four extruded bosses in the entire part and three of those are
... 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 Drafted Ribs Tutorial
Complex Drafted Ribs: The base block is created from a Boss Extrude. The side walls are drafted and the corners are rounded. The walls are shelled and the surface is cut in half to be mirrored. The split line divides the
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Simple Surface Part 2 Tutorial
Simple Surface: This model is created using only surface body features and then it is turned into a solid using a thicken command. A Boundary Surface feature uses two sketches in one direction to create the desired geometry. An outside
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Complex Machine Part 3 Tutorial
Complex Machine Part 3: This is a machined part that has mostly extruded features with a few revolved features, a boundary cut and swept cut. All part features are symmetric about the Front Plane with the exception of the swept
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Wire Belt Tutorial
Wire Belt: The Wire Profile Plane creates the wire size of the belt, the overall width of the belt, the number of segments of the belt, and the desired tolerance between each link in the belt. A final variable, belt spacing,
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Retail Carton Tutorial
Retail Carton: The main body dimensions for the width and height change between configurations. The rear corner of the box is ripped so the part can be unfolded. Equations are used to insure that the dimensions of the Bottom-Tab will update
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