Advanced Part Modeling Training Course

Course Description: Advanced Part Modeling teaches you how to use multibody solids, sweeping and lofting features, and the more advanced shaping capabilites of SOLIDWORKS.

Course Length: 2.5 Days

Prerequisites: SOLIDWORKS Essentials

Topics

Introduction

About This Course

Windows® 7

Use of Color

Lesson 1: Sketching with Splines

  • Sketching Splines
  • Introducing: Spline
  • Introducing: Show Curvature Combs
  • Sketch Picture
  • Introducing: Sketch Picture
  • Review

Lesson 2: Multibody Solids: How They Work

  • Multibody Solids
  • Multibody Techniques
  • Introducing: Solid Bodies Folder
  • Feature Scope
  • Patterning Bodies
  • Tool Body
  • Introducing: Insert Part
  • Introducing: Move/Copy Bodies
  • Combining Bodies
  • Sketch Relations
  • Introducing: Combine

Lesson 3: Uses of Multibody

  • Common Bodies
  • Indent Feature
  • Introducing: Delete Body
  • Local Operations
  • Modeling Negative Space
  • Using Cut to Create Multibodies
  • Saving Solid Bodies as Parts and Assemblies
  • Introducing: Insert into New Part
  • Introducing: Save Bodies
  • Splitting a Part into Multibodies
  • Introducing: Split
  • Creating an Assembly
  • Introducing: Create Assembly
  • Using Split Part with Legacy Data

Lesson 4: Introduction to Sweeping

  • Sweeping
  • Case Study: Faux Raised Panel Door
  • Sweep with Guide Curves
  • Case Study: Bottle
  • Sweep Options
  • Sweep with Guide Curves
  • Introducing: Dome
  • Introducing: Selection Manager

Lesson 5: Working with Curves

  • Case Study: Modeling a Spring
  • Sweeping Along a 3D Path
  • 3D Sketching
  • Introducing: Helix and Spiral
  • Introducing: Projected Curve
  • Introducing: Composite Curve
  • Introducing: Fit Spline
  • Applying the Label to the Bottle
  • Modeling Threads
  • Case Study: Creating a Curve Through a Set of Points
  • Sketch Blocks
  • Introducing: Sketch Blocks
  • Equation Driven Curves
  • Introducing: Equation Driven Curve
  • Introducing: Split Line

Lesson 6: Advanced Sweeping

  • Orientation and Twist Control
  • Align with End Faces
  • Sweeping Along Model Edges
  • Sweeping a Tool Body

Lesson 7: Lofts

  • Lofting and Sweeping: What’s the Difference?
  • How Lofting Works
  • Basic Lofting
  • Introducing: Loft
  • Using Derived and Copied Sketches
  • Copying a Sketch
  • Derived Sketches
  • Introducing: Insert Derived Sketch
  • Centerline Lofting
  • Introducing: Split Entities
  • Cleaning Up a Model
  • Introducing: Delete Face
  • Introducing: Deviation Analysis
  • Advanced Lofting
  • Layout Sketches
  • Boundary Feature

Lesson 8: Other Advanced Tools

  • Advanced Fillets
  • Analyzing Geometry
  • Introducing: Display Curvature
  • Introducing: Intersection Curve
  • Introducing: Zebra Stripes
  • Introducing: Wrap Feature
  • Deform Feature
  • Introducing: Deform
  • Introducing: Knit Surface
  • Move Face and Delete Face
  • Introducing: Move Face
  • Performance Considerations

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