SolidWorks Course

) INTRODUCTION TO SKETCHING

• 2D sketching

• Default planes (Front, Right and Top)

• Sketch Entities (Ellipse, Slot, Arcs, Lines…)

• Basic sketching

• Rules governing sketches

• Sketch Relations

• Dimensions

• Considerations before creating a part

• Terminology

BASIC PART MODELING

• Considerations before creating a part

• Terminology

• Choosing the best profile and the sketch plane

• Boss feature

• Cut feature

• Hole Wizard

• Filleting

• Chamfering

• quiz

MODELING A CASTING OR FORGING

• Boss feature with draft

• Symmetry in the sketch

• Sketching inside the model

• Using model edges in a sketch

• Trimmed sketch geometry

PATTERNING

• Why we use pattern

• Reference geometry

• Linear patterns

• Circular patterns

• Mirror patterns

SHELLING AND RIBS

• – order of operations

• Shelling:

• – face selection

• Planes

• – rib sketch

• – converting edges

• Full round fillets

• Thin feature

• quiz

DESIGN CHANGES

• Part editing

• Rebuilding tools

• – rollback to sketch, rebuild feedback, reorder, deletions

3D SKETCH AND ADVANCED FEATURE

• Using 3D Sketch

• Swept feature

• Loft feature

• quiz

USING DRAWINGS

• Model views

• Drawing Sheets and formats

• Annotations

• Dimensions

USING ASSEMBLIES

• Mates (standards, advanced, mechanical…)

• Mass properties

• Checking for interference

• Checking for clearances

• Changing the values of dimensions

• Exploded assemblies

• Bill of materials

• Assembly drawings

• quiz

USING SOLIDWORKS DESIGN LIBRARY

• Using SolidWorks design library

• Toolbox

• Power transmissions, bearings, bolts, and screws, nuts…

SIMULATION

• Basic functionality of SolidWorks simulation

• Setting the analysis units

• Creating a study

• Assigning material

• Applying material

• Applying fixtures

• Applying loads

• Mesh and Run

• quiz

SIMULATION