{"id":15401,"date":"2017-02-14T17:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T22:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/?p=15401"},"modified":"2017-02-13T12:24:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T17:24:48","slug":"solidworks-gear-heart-tutorial-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2017\/02\/solidworks-gear-heart-tutorial-part-1.html","title":{"rendered":"SOLIDWORKS Gear Heart Tutorial &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us SOLIDWORKS users would be considered &#8220;gear heads&#8221;, or high-tech enthusiasts, but some of us take our \u201cgear headed-ness\u201d to such a high level that our enthusiasm for all things mechanical just pours from our heart. This tutorial series is for you, the SOLIDWORKS user that says \u201cNay, I am not just a gear head, I\u2019m a gear heart!\u201d In this four-part series we\u2019ll be building a functional geared heart pendant using mostly essential SOLIDWORKS features, with a few unique part and assembly features sprinkled in.<\/p>\n<p>In part 1 of the series we will be designing around a few existing gears in a multi-body part file and introducing the sketch picture tool to assist in laying out the heart shaped enclosure.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3NhyqPCds1U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;re interested in all things mechanical or want to exercise your artistic side, the Gear Heart Tutorial Series\u00a0will help you better understand and expand your Gearing and Mechanical Mate skills in SOLIDWORKS! Can\u2019t wait for the next video? View all of the tutorials\u00a0on the playlist <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLiKqXuECiKNI6MpsL0sIw3MgC_MmYeZ3n\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Download the full Gear Heart SOLIDWORKS assembly <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/Gear-Heart-Assembly.zip\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Are you a gear head? Share your creations with us in the comments below! As always, thanks for watching!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us SOLIDWORKS users would be considered &#8220;gear heads&#8221;, or high-tech enthusiasts, but some of us take our \u201cgear headed-ness\u201d to such a high level that our enthusiasm for all things mechanical just pours from our heart. This tutorial<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2017\/02\/solidworks-gear-heart-tutorial-part-1.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":15402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21,1475,35,36],"tags":[1729,1730,1731,1732,1196,1733,414],"class_list":["post-15401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-solidworks","category-solidworks-2017","category-tips-tricks","category-usability","tag-gear-heart","tag-gearing","tag-mechanical-mates","tag-multi-body-part","tag-series","tag-sketch-picture-tool","tag-tutorial"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15401"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16035,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15401\/revisions\/16035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}