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SOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Halloween Skull Assembly
Halloween Skull Assembly: This assembly consists of four parts. Three of the four parts are multi-body solids. There are two configurations, one with the tongue and one without. The jaw and tongue do pivot. Skull- The skull is the most complicated, detailed
... 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: 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
... ContinuedSolidWorks Part Reviewer: Reverse Engineered Propeller
Reverse Engineered Propeller: This part is modeling differently from most SolidWorks parts. Because the model is a reverse engineer of an existing part using 3D scan data, design intent will not be built into the part. Many sketches will not be
... ContinuedSolidWorks Part Reviewer: Soccer Ball
Soccer Ball: Let’s have some fun! When you download this part you will learn how a soccer ball is created and learn the design process while doing so. You start off creating four planar triangles, linking the rectangles in the
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Cartoon Dog Head Tutorial
Cartoon Dog Head: This Part is a multi-body solid which was created using mostly surface bodies with a few solid features added toward the end of the modeling process. There is a two section loft that uses a technique where a
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