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SOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Blow Molded Bottle Part 2 Tutorial
Blow Molded Bottle Part 2 – The Bottle: The preform from Part 1 is inserted into this part as the first feature, following the manufacturing process. The rest of the bottle is then modeled from the neck down. Suppressed features
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Blow Molded Bottle Part 1 – The Preform: This is a model of an injection molded preform which will be heated and blow molded into a bottle. Undercuts are removed from the threads so the part can be injection molded
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Hose Clamp Assembly: Uses simple features to accomplish a complex task of unfolding a stamped metal part. Also demonstrates Shell Outward, and uses Fill Pattern to create a linear pattern that updates to fit its surroundings. Download: Hose Clamp Assembly Complexity: Moderate
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Motorcycle Rotor Tutorial
Motorcycle Rotor: This simple part shows how to use a Sketch Picture to trace over existing geometry from an actual picture or an image. One quarter of the part is easily copied four times using a circular body pattern. Other features
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Water Bottle Cage: This Water Bottle Cage demonstrates using “Spline on Surface” to get the outline of the wireform used to hold a water bottle on a bike. It also demonstrates the setting for guiding a sweep along an adjacent
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Wall Hook Assembly Tutorial
Wall Hook Assembly: This Plastic wall hook has an interesting shutoff along the inner edge of the hook. In addition, on the inner portion of the hook, a stepped parting line is modeled to allow filleting of the inner edge .This
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Checkering Tutorial
Checkering Example: This part shows how to use surfaces to help create geometry used to create swept cuts. These groove cuts create a diamond pattern called checkering. Checkering is usually added to wooden handles for decoration and to provide better grip. Download: Checkering Complexity: Moderate
... ContinuedSOLIDWORKS Part Reviewer: Safety Glasses Tutorial
Safety Glasses: These safety goggles use surface modeling to generate their swoopy shape. Sweeps, lofts and trims create the initial surfaces that are then Thickened to form the glasses. The rarely used Mid-Surface feature is used to easily define a complicated
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Pastry Blender: Modeled the way it is manufactured, the blades of this pastry cutter are cut in the flat pattern then folded to create the final shape. This creates smoother edges than other possible modeling methods. Sketched Bend forms all 5
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Battery Hold Down: This assembly is used to lock an automotive battery in place. It has six unique components in it. There is one example of external references in the hold down part. The hold down bar includes a FEA static
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