Surface modelling is a powerful way of using SolidWorks to create 3D models but it can be daunting for users who used to solid modelling. As a stepping stone to full surface modelling there are two ‘pseudo-surfacing’ tools which are often overlooked. These are the Move Face and the Delete Face – both with quite […]
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The boundary surface features within SOLIDWORKS allows users to make surfaces that can be curvature or tangent continuously in both directions, i.e. every surface of the solid. This in many cases provides a much higher quality result than the loft feature. The SOLIDWORKS boundary surface feature cannot be discussed however without mentioning the Loft feature.
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Here we have a concise yet comprehensive SOLIDWORKS Lip and Grove tool tutorial. Lip and Groove features are very common on plastic items like enclosures or cases where two or more parts have to fit together snugly. These simple features are an easy way to ensure that parts are correctly aligned without adding much complexity
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Take apart any modern consumer item, such as a Laptop or TV, and it’s likely that that you’ll find a common feature – the mounting boss. Mounting bosses (sometimes called standoffs) are used to attach different items together. They are an extremely common feature in modern product design, especially in plastic parts. Mounting bosses can
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Let’s look at SOLIDWORKS external thread. In this tutorial you will learn how to create an external thread in SOLIDWORKS using the Thread Tool. SOLIDWORKS external thread before the Thread Tool I first started using SOLIDWORKS as a student back in 2006 and one of the things that took a fair-few repetitions to learn was
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Materials are an essential way of gaining an extra insight into your designs. This can be achieved by acting as a part of a simulation, or analysing the center of gravity and the weight of the design itself. You will not be able to do any of these without assigning material properties to your parts.
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The is an extremely useful addition to the Solidworks modelling box of tricks that sometimes get overlooked. This collection of specialist tools allows users to create 3D parts from flat sheets of metal. These can be made in 3D and then ‘virtually unfolded’ within Solidworks to give a fast, cheap and easy manufacturing method. A
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This is a clear a concise SolidWorks Lofted Boss/Base tutorial with multiple screenshots to guide you step by step. Lofts use two or more profiles to create shapes allowing a wide variety of solids to be made. The Anatomy a Loft in SolidWorks Extrudes, Revolves and Sweeps all generally follow similar principles of operation in
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This article will teach you how to use SolidWorks bend table when working with sheet metal. We will also look at how you can create sheet metal gauge tables for SolidWorks. Anyone that has worked with sheet metal in the past knows that sheet metal properties like bend allowance, bend deduction, ben radius, K-factors, gauge
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In this step-by-step tutorial with screenshots, we will explain how to use Revolved Cut in SolidWorks. You will also find out what makes Revolved features different, and how to make them. Revolves and Extrudes in SolidWorks are similar in that they both use a sketched profile to make a shape or cut. However, whilst simple
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SolidWorks Motion Studies allows for more complex machines like engines to be designed where every part is moving on the correct path. This SolidWorks Motion Study Tutorial will cover Animation and Motion Analysis. CAD (Computer Aided Design) programs have always been able to transform an engineer or designer’s ideas into a real design through the
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Holes are an extremely common feature in engineering and product design. From simple circular openings for cables or ports, to complex threaded types for screws and fasteners, holes are an almost unavoidable feature of many parts. Thankfully Solidworks has a great feature – the Hole Wizard – that makes adding and modifying the holes simple.
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SolidWorks is an incredibly powerful CAD program that allows to create very detailed parts and assemblies but no matter how complex your model is it’s highly likely that it will use some kind of units system. American users are generally more likely to work in Imperial units (technically known as ‘United States customary units’) such
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Solidworks is an extremely powerful and popular CAD program that is used to create all sorts of 3D designs for manufacture. But sometimes you’d like to create a rendered image – or rendering – to show off your design. You might need renderings for marketing presentations, portfolios, or just to test your skills and luckily
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We’ve all been there – you’re modelling away happily but when you try to create a Revolved Base/Base feature SolidWorks throws up that dreaded error: “The Sketch is open, self-intersecting or intersects the centreline”: This a very common problem and one that can be extremely frustrating but luckily it is usually fairly easy to troubleshoot
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