Overview
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Syllabus
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- Specify grain direction
- Welcome
- Quick switching between lines and arcs
- Switching sketch planes
- Using Pack and Go to rename files
- Cutting and pasting custom properties
- Custom property links
- Plane mates
- Create a face fillet using hold lines
- Use construction geometry to simplify sketches
- Convert and offset entities
- Dissolve sketch text tool
- Create a flat pattern
- Use the Curve Driven Pattern tool
- Use the Combine command
- Working with the Split command
- Use the Fill Pattern command
- Looking at solid sweeps
- Looking at interference detection
- Checking out virtual sharps
- Using and dimensioning arcs and curves
- Looking at the path length dimension
- Customizing the Command Manager
- Looking at normal cuts
- Creating a fishmouth with two connection points
- Understanding mouse gestures
- Renaming files
- Creating build materials from SOLIDWORKS Explorer
- Checking out Treehouse
- Exporting out of Treehouse
- Pipe coping with surface flatten
- Mouse gesture tips
- SOLIDWORKS Explorer: Renaming files
- SOLIDWORKS Bill of Materials (BOM)
- Treehouse
- Selection set
- Exclude from BOM
- Wrap feature
- Split line tricks
- Creating "custom" custom property names
- Link to thickness
- FeatureManager search
- Selection tricks
- Using the Tab key to hide and show
- Selection option rotation using the A key
- Enter key for Repeat Last Command
- Power trim tricks
- Recover the popup bar
- Quick reference planes
- Command search
- Drag and drop from search
- Export to DXF/DWG 1:1
- Breadcrumb tricks
- Freehand sketching in Sketch Ink
- Auto Sketch Entities for Sketch Ink
- Sketch Ink Ruler
- Sketch Ink Protractor
- Touch with Sketch Ink
- Freehand markup
- Bounding Box in assemblies
- eDrawings webpage creation
- Treehouse custom properties
- Defeature Silhouette
- Exploded View improvements
- External References for SOLIDWORKS 2019
- Save an assembly as a part
- Interference detection for multibody parts
- 3D textures
- SOLIDWORKS open times
- Arc length
- Reference length
- Zoom to fit tricks
- Create a plane on the end of line
- Trim tool enhancements
- Weldment corners
- Smart patterns
- Sensors
- Shell only one section
- Square spring
- Using equal curvature
- Fun with magnetic mates
- Direct editing: Delete Hole
- Direct editing: Move Face tricks
- Sketching: Disable auto relations
- Using the reload command
- Tricks for saving parts for 3D printing
- Using the Biad to sketch
- Fun with intersections
- Previous Selection
- Select Other
- Change a face from solid to transparent
- Using files from other software packages
- Select Tangency
- Selection Filters: F5 and F6
- Save SOLIDWORKS settings
- Flat Tree View
- Collapse a tree
- Folders in the tree
- Custom views
- Custom views in drawings
- Rotate about an entity
- Normal To
- Zoom to Selection
- Rotate about the scene floor
- Reference triad
- Quickly add sketch relationships
- Lasso Selection
- Zoom to Selection
- Save As with References
- Viewing a part in wireframe
- Close sketch to model
- SketchXpert
- Invert Selection
- Single command per pick
- Derived Sketch
- Pierce vs. coincident
- Reset Dragging
- Feature Freeze
- Importing a mesh body
- Converting to a mesh body
- Opening ScanTo3D mesh files
- Mesh Prep Wizard
- ScanTo3D and Curve Wizard
- Decimate Mesh Body
- Segment Imported Mesh Body tool
- ScanTo3D: Mesh Edit
- Surface From Mesh tool
- ScanTo3D: Surface Wizard
- Using MeshLab
- Simplifying a huge mesh in MeshLab
- 3D textures
- Creating multiple planes at once
- Using surface intersections for complex modeling
- Add hardware to assemblies
- Sketch-driven component patterns
- View multiple drawing sheets at the same time
- Auto-add item quantity to balloons
- Create leaders to point to multiple items
- Move a view from one sheet to the next
- Fix a description that's too long
- Mate parts with Lock Rotation
- Search for options within SOLIDWORKS
- Display objects inside assemblies in different ways
- Create and use reference blocks
- Geometry without in-context references
- Create reference lines for sketches
- Path link dimension
- Use a block as a reference for a part
- Reformat a bill of materials list
- Export a bill of materials list
- Create a reference block in an assembly
- Use properties of drawing notes
- Work with boundary surfaces
- Use boundary surface control points
- How to use the Check tool
