Overview
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Practice your SOLIDWORKS design skills in this project-based course on modeling motorcycle engine parts.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- SOLIDWORKS user interface: Quick review
- Workflow tools frequently used during the course
- Design intent: A quick overview
- Sketching the flywheel
- Sketching the dimensions of the flywheel
- Extruding the flywheel
- Capturing the design intent of the flywheel
- Building the shafts of the flywheel
- Cutting the shafts of the flywheel
- Cutting the back of the flywheel
- Shaping the arc
- Filleting the flywheel
- Configuring the splines of the flywheel
- Before we begin
- Starting to build the connecting rod
- Building the details of the connecting rod
- Splitting the connecting rod
- Roughing out the piston
- Detailing the piston
- Creating the valve
- Building the sprocket
- Creating additional gears
- Modeling the camshaft
- Assembly overview
- Top-level assembly
- Piston and camshaft assembly
- Adding subassemblies
- Adding camshaft gears
- Chain assembly
- Adding appearances
- Goodbye
