SolidWorks Essentials

SolidWorks 2008

Length: 4 days

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Prerequisites: Mechanical design experience; experience with the Windows™ operating system.
 

Description: SolidWorks Essentials teaches you how to use the SolidWorks mechanical design automation software to build parametric models of parts and assemblies, and how to make drawings of those parts and assemblies.

The topics covered in this course are:

About This Course
Windows XP

Use of Color

What is the SolidWorks Software?
Design Intent

File References

Opening Files
The SolidWorks User Interface

2D Sketching
Stages in the Process

Saving Files
What are We Going to Sketch?
Sketching
Sketch Entities
Basic Sketching
Rules That Govern Sketches
Design Intent
Sketch Relations
Dimensions
Sketch Fillets
Extrude

Basic Modeling

Terminology
Choosing the Best Profile
Choosing the Sketch Plane
Details of the Part
Boss Feature
Sketching on a Planar Face
Using the Hole Wizard
Cut Feature
Using the Hole Wizard

View Options
Filleting
Detailing Basics
Drawing Views
Center Marks
Model Dimensions
Changing Parameters

Case Study: Ratchet
Design Intent
Boss Feature with Draft
Symmetry in the Sketch
Sketching Inside the Model
View Options
Keyboard Shortcuts
Using Model Edges in a Sketch
Creating Trimmed Sketch Geometry
Using Copy and Paste
Editing Features

Why Use Patterns?
Reference Geometry

Linear Pattern
Circular Patterns
Mirror Patterns
Using Pattern Seed Only
Sketch Driven Patterns

Case Study: Handwheel
Design Intent
Revolved Features
Building the Rim
Building the Spoke
Edit Material
Mass Properties
File Properties

COSMOSXpress
Using the Wizard

Shelling and Ribs
Analyzing and Adding Draft
Other Options for Draft
Shelling
Ribs
Full Round Fillets
Thin Features

Part Editing
Editing Topics
Check Sketch for Feature
FilletXpert

DraftXpert

Part Editing
Design Changes

Information From a Model

Rebuilding Tools
Sketch Contours

Configurations
Using Configurations

Modify Configurations
Editing Parts that Have Configurations
Design Library

Design Tables
Link Values
Equations
Design Tables
Existing Design Tables
Modeling Strategies for Configurations
More About Making Drawings
In the Advanced Course...

Case Study: Universal Joint
Bottom-Up Assembly
Creating a New Assembly
Position of the First Component
FeatureManager Design Tree and Symbols
Adding Components
Using Part Configurations in Assemblies
Creating Copies of Instances
Component Hiding and Transparency
Component Properties
Sub-assemblies
Smart Mates
Inserting Sub-assemblies

Pack and Go

Using Assemblies
Analyzing the Assembly
Changing the Values of Dimensions
Exploded Assemblies

Explode Line Sketch
Assembly Drawings
In the Drawings Course...

DimXpert
Tolerance Types and Features

DimXpert Selections

Prismatic and Turned Parts

Settings for DimXpert

Auto Dimension Scheme

Using Plus and Minus

DimXpert Annotations and Drawings

TolAnalyst

Options Settings
Document Templates