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SOLIDWORKS

Guide to SOLIDWORKS

This tutorial is an introduction to the SOLIDWORKS tutorials and the SOLIDWORKS interface. This tutorial reviews essential SOLIDWORKS terminology, controls, and features.

Time: 15 Minutes

Parts

This tutorial demonstrates the creation of a SOLIDWORKS part.

Key Features: Sketch, Extruded Base/Boss, Extruded Cut, Hole Wizard, Chamfer, Shell, Fillet, editing materials, Section View.

Time: 30 Minutes

Drawings

This tutorial demonstrates the creation of an engineering drawing from a solid model.

Key Features: Make Drawing from Part, editing views, Centerline, Center Mark, Smart Dimension, Datum, Note, PDF export, PackNGo.

Time: 45 Minutes

Assemblies

This tutorial demonstrates the creation of a SOLIDWORKS assembly and of the appropriate engineering drawings.

Key Steps: create assembly and subassemblies, make exploded view, create assembly drawing.

Time: 60 Minutes

Revolves

This tutorial demonstrates the use of revolve-style features.

Key Features: Revolved Boss/Base, Revolved Cut, Swept Boss/Base, Mirror, Linear Pattern, Circular Pattern.

Time: 45 Minutes

Laser Cutter

This tutorial demonstrates the use the Mec E shop's laser cutter to make a 3D object from flat material stock.

Key Steps: add offset configuration to model and drawing, create laser cutter drawing.

Time: 15 Minutes

Design Tables

This tutorial demonstrates the use of a design table in EXCEL to control the size and configuration of a SOLIDWORKS part.

Key Steps: name features/dimensions, insert design table, add configurations.

Time: 30 Minutes

Sheet Metal

SOLIDWORKS has specific toolboxes that have been developed to allow the design of complex shapes using a specific manufacturing approach.
This tutorial explains how to use create parts using the Sheet Metal tools.

Time: 45 Minutes

3D Printing

Additive manufacturing (3D printing) is a new manufacturing technique that allows many manufacturing constraints to be removed.
This tutorial walks through how to create parts for 3D printing.

Time: 45 Minutes

Tolerancing

Solid models are built in the virtual world where all dimenisons are mathmatically perfect.
This tutorial explains the concepts and uses of tolerancing to allow components to be manufacture to achieve a function.

Time: 30 Minutes

Animation

Once a solid model is built, it can be used for many different engineering processes.
As and introduction, this tutorial shows how to perform a motion study and animate assemblies.

Time: 60 Minutes

Review

A lot of concepts are covered in MecE 265. This tutorial acts as a review with a focus on engineering drawings.

Time: 30 Minutes

Car Motion

This tutorial shows how to simulate the motion of a car. This tutorial covers the use of appropriate mates, the addition of a simulation motor, and the execution of a motion simulation.

Basketball Throw

This tutorial shows how to simulate the trajectory of an object, and how to use a design study to find success cases.

Trebuchet Shot

This tutorial shows how to simulate event based motion. The events in the tutorial involve turning on/off mates, forces and motors.

Friction

This tutorial shows how to modify coefficients of friction in SOLIDWORKS motion. It also compares the SOLIDWORKS motion solution to the analytical solution of a problem where a car slips while climbing a hill.

Key Steps: running a Motion Study, running a Design Study, comparing numerical and analytical solutions.

Time: 95 minutes

MEC E 260 Project

This tutorial demonstrates many SOLIDWORKS techniques pertaining to the MecE 260 Project.

Key Steps: making a gear, converting a toolbox part, using TreeHouse.