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SOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Simple Weldment Tutorial Part 6
Simple Weldment Part 6: A weldment is an object made up of several parts welded together.This structural member uses Al L Angle (rounded ends) for its profile. This three member group was made in one group because they are all connected
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Molded Pulp Tutorial
Molded Pulp: This part demonstrate some of the techniques used to create molded pulp packaging. There are three configurations for this pulp packaging model including one used to create the actual tooling for the pulp part. There are some unique features included with this model including
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Simple Machine Part 5 Tutorial
Simple Machine Part 5: This is a machined part that has mostly extruded features and some hole wizard holes. Start by building half the part symmetric with Right Plane. Tangent on the right side of sketch using centerline so mirrored cut geometry will
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Housing with Complex Filleting Tutorial
Housing with Complex Filleting: The housing is modeled in half with the intention to mirror the body to create the other half at the end. The side face is deleted as the first step in modeling the ‘swoosh’ detail in the
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Moderate Machine Part 5 Tutorial
Moderate Machine Part 5: This is a machined part that has mostly extruded features with a few revolved features and one lofted cut. Start with either a boss extrude or the revolve feature. The “Merge Results” option is turned on to
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Cover Tutorial
Cover: This feature uses the lower left hand corner as a common origin with all components within the entire assembly. Alignment features are mounted. Outside edge Fillets are used as well as mounting fillets for the outside edges. The
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Armored Mask Tutorial
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
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Magazine Pocket Tutorial
Magazine Pocket: This part features the creation of a magazine pocket. The model is split into two bodies and is completed using the Fillet tool and then delete face. The shells are then combined back into a single body and are
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Complex Machine Part 5 Tutorial
Complex Machine Part 5: This is a machined part that has extruded features, some revolved features, and some special cuts that include swept cuts and a boundary cut. The part will be cut into two pieces about this edge. Split
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Sword Tutorial
Sword:This part shows how to use a Layout Sketch to help guide and setup downstream features. This part model has multiple configurations with different shapes of the four main pieces (Pommel, Handle, Cross-Guard, and Blade). A Design Table is used to help control
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