Overview
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Start creating manufacturing-ready parts and assemblies, as well as detailed drawings and bills of materials with SOLIDWORKS 2014.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Launching SOLIDWORKS for the first time
- Accessing and customizing the Ribbon
- Touring the shortcut bar and identifying essential keys
- Saving, renaming, and managing files
- Working with the new view cube, or View Selector
- New features in SOLIDWORKS 2013 and 2014
- Understanding the 3D world
- Creating your first part
- The virtual, parametric prototyping environment
- The FeatureManager and feature-based modeling
- History-based modeling and the rollback bar
- Starting a new sketch
- The six steps used in almost all modeling features
- The Line and Centerline tools
- Using the Circle tool
- Adding and removing relationships and dimensions
- Understanding relationship types
- System options, units, and templates
- Drawing rectangles
- Creating arcs in a sketch
- Drawing splines in a sketch
- Sketching polygons
- Trimming and extending portions of a sketch
- Creating offset geometry
- Moving, copying, rotating, and scaling elements
- Erasing, undoing, and redoing actions
- Using the mirror tools
- Creating repeating patterns in a sketch
- Using construction lines to build robust sketches
- Applying fillets and chamfers to a sketch
- Working with slots
- Adding text to parts
- Using the Convert Entities command
- Working with planes
- Placing and using axes
- Placing a coordinate system
- Extruding a sketch into a 3D object
- Using Revolve to create 3D parts
- Using Loft to create complex shapes
- Refining a loft shape with guide curves
- Using the sweep to create wire and pipe shapes
- Modifying parts using the Extruded Cut tool
- Working with the Revolved Cut tool
- Using the Lofted Cut tool
- Cutting holes and grooves with the Swept Cut tool
- Using fillets and chamfers to smooth corners
- Creating repeating rectangular patterns
- Creating a circular pattern
- Mirroring objects
- Using the Shell and Draft tools
- Scaling parts
- Working with reusable sketches and blocks
- Creating blocks
- Designing with blocks
- Understanding the tools for beginning a new assembly
- The basic steps in creating an assembly
- Mating parts together in an assembly
- Working with subassemblies
- Linear and circular assembly patterns
- Downloading premade parts from the Internet
- Using Toolbox
- Mating parts with coincident, parallel, and distance mates
- Mating parts with width mates
- Mating parts with path mates
- Mating parts by aligning planes
- Getting started with the Hole Wizard
- Positioning holes in layout sketches
- Linking sketches to other parts
- Linking to layout sketches
- Using the Hole Wizard in context
- Understanding threading concepts
- Using a helix and Swept Path to create a thread
- Understanding internal threads
- Using equations to drive a sketch
- Working with complex calculations
- Integrating Microsoft Excel to manage design tables
- Building assemblies using part configurations
- Working with drawing templates
- Setting up drawing options and sheet properties
- Choosing the correct projection angle
- Adding model views to a drawing
- Creating general dimension notations
- Creating ordinate and running dimensions
- Dimensioning holes and curved features
- Using the autodimension tools
- Creating holes and callouts
- Adding center marks and centerlines to a drawing
- Adding item notes
- Making drawing revisions
- Adding assemblies to drawings
- Including a bill of materials
- Adding balloons to specify parts on an assembly drawing
- Adding a title block and sheet properties
- Building an exploded view for an assembly drawing
- Next steps
