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