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SolidWorks Part Reviewer: Electric Guitar Assembly
Electric Guitar: This assembly showcases models using several techniques for modeling complex shapes in SolidWorks. Techniques shown in the models are using the table driven pattern, Filleting tricks, and hybrid surface-solid part modeling. Download: Electric Guitar Assembly Complexity: Complex Features used: Boundary Surface,
... ContinuedSolidWorks Part Reviewer: Card Cage Assembly
Card Cage Assembly: A sheet metal assembly showing PCB mounting and venting options. The parts in this assembly showcase a method to mount PCB’s using a forming tool, and vent panels using cosmetic patterns. Download: Card Cage Assembly Complexity: Moderate Features
... ContinuedSolidWorks Part Reviewer: Lockjaw Pliers
Lockjaw Pliers Assembly: This assembly showcases models using several techniques for modeling formed sheet metal parts in SolidWorks. Other techniques shown in the models are using the curve driven pattern, using configurations to help manage similar parts, and the differences in
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Crow Bar Tutorial
Crow Bar: Placed the midpoint of the main (horizontal) length of the crowbar on the origin. Needed to make a Sketch Plane for the Sweep hex cross section. The Plane was created parallel to the Right Plane and the through a
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Cabinet Assembly Tutorial
Cabinet: This multibody part starts with an envelope extruded feature. “Up to vertex” was used to to create this feature. With the defining sketches determined, it’s often useful to establish an envelope to work with, giving surfaces to extrude to and from.
... ContinuedSolidWorks Part Reviewer: Forged Hook Assembly
Forged Hook Assembly: A surface loft forms the main surface of the hook. A loft is used instead of a sweep so that the dimensions from the 4 intermediate sections can be inserted into the drawing. A sweep would not have
... ContinuedSolidWorks Part Reviewer: Glass with Controlled Edges
Glass with Controlled Edges: It is a good best practice to create a central axis for circular features when working on complication “revolved” parts. This should be reference for all circular features instead of sketch center lines, model faces or edges,
... ContinuedSolidWorks Part Reviewer: Football Helmet
Football Helmet: While it would be easier to to use the side profile and bottom profile as direction 1 curves, and the middle profile for direction 2, the result would be a 3-sided surface with bad flow of the UV curves (all
... ContinuedSolidWorks Part Reviewer: Imported Sheet Metal
Sheet Metal: The imported sheetmetal model was mostly valid . After using Insert>Sheet Metal>Bends, the part would *mostly* unfold if received in STEP or Parasolid. There was nothing we could do to make it, or even a section of it, unfold
... ContinuedSolidWorks Part Reviewer: Hammer
Hammer: An extrude is used instead of a revolve to form the head of the hammer as proper draft for forging can be built into the extrude sketch but not the sketch for a revolve. A cut is used to shape the
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