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SOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Adze Tool Tutorial
Adze Tool: This wood carving tool is a multi-body solid part which uses both solid and surface features to create the geometry. This half hammer, half ax looking tool has examples of many surface features including extrudes, cuts, offset surfaces, extends,
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Simple Sheet Metal Tutorial Part 2
Simple Sheet Metal Part 2: This part is centered with respect to the Right Plane and Sheet Metal features are used so that the part can be flattened out to create a flat pattern. This is part two in a six
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Screwdriver Tutorial
Screwdriver: This small screwdriver demonstrates how to create a handle with correct draft. It also models finger grips around the handle by using surface fills to replace a circular patterned split line. Download the part below to get started! Download: Screwdriver Complexity: Moderate
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Compost Bin Tutorial
Compost Bin Assembly: This two-bay compost bin shows how to create a library of custom weldment profiles so the SOLIDWORKS weldment environment can be used to quickly design a wood structure. Download the assembly below to get started! Download: Compost Bin Complexity:
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Complex Machine Part 1 Tutorial
Complex Machine Part 1: This is a machined part that has mostly extruded features with a few revolved features, two swept cuts and a boundary cut. Learn the process of creating this machine part by downloading the part below and reviewing
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Ring Tutorial
Ring: This single body part has an example of a Wrap feature using text and has curvature continuous Face Fillets. This part has an example of an equation driven layout sketch to help visualize the text “unwrapped”. Download the file and modify the text to
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Simple Weldment Tutorial Part 4
Simple Weldment Part 4: This part is an object made up of several parts welded together. SOLIDWORKS representS this model as a multibody solid NOT as an assembly. The first structural member is using square tubing. Download the part below to learn the
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Complex Weldment Tutorial Part 1
Complex Weldment Part 1: Since all the pieces are connected end to end they can be placed into one group, useing round tubing for the profile. All weldments need a 2D or 3D sketch which “acts” like the path of sweep. The
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Simple Sheet Metal Part 1 Tutorial
Simple Sheet Metal Part 1: This sheet metal part has a feature that determines the thickness and bend radius. A 14 Gauge Aluminum was used for this model. The Sheetmetal part is symmetric with respect to the right plane except for the
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Moderate Machine Part 2 Tutorial
Moderate Machine Part 2: This is a machined part that has mostly revolved features with some extruded features and a lofted cut. During the design process you will use convert entities. It creates an “On edge” relation that will update correctly
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