Surface Modeling Training Course

Course Description: Surface Modeling teaches you how to build freeform shapes using SOLIDWORKS mechanical design automation software.

Course Length: 2 Days

Prerequisites: SOLIDWORKS Essentials  ,  Advanced Part Modeling

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Introduction

About This Course

Windows® 7

Use of Color

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Lesson 1: Understanding Surfaces

  • Solids and Surfaces
  • Working with Surface Bodies
  • Why Use Surfaces?
  • Continuity Explained
  • Workflow with Surfaces
  • Excercises

Lesson 2: Introduction to Surfacing

  • Similarities Between Solid and Surface Modeling .
  • Basic Surfacing
  • Flattening Surfaces
  • Exercises

Lesson 3 Solid-Surface Hybrid Modeling

  • Hybrid Modeling
  • Using Surfaces to Modify Solids
  • Interchanging Between Solids and Surfaces
  • Performance Implications
  • Surfaces as Construction Geometry
  • Alternative to Trim
  • Making Copies of Faces
  • Exercises

Lesson 4: Repairing and Editing Imported Geometry

  • Importing Data
  • Repairing and Editing Imported Geometry
  • Exercises

Lesson 5: Advanced Surface Modeling

  • Stages in the Process
  • Ruled Surfaces
  • Lofting Surfaces
  • Modeling the Lower Half
  • Conclusion
  • Design Changes
  • Exercises

Lesson 6: Blends and Patches

  • Complex Blends
  • Smoothing Patches
  • Boundary Surface
  • Freeform Feature
  • Corner Blends
  • Exercises

Lesson 7: Master Model Techniques

  • Introduction to Master Models
  • Surface Master Model Technique
  • Working with a Solid Master Model
  • Specialized Features for Plastic Parts
  • SOLIDWORKS Explorer
  • Exercise

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