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Learn SOLIDWORKS 2020

By : Tayseer Almattar
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Learn SOLIDWORKS 2020

By: Tayseer Almattar

Overview of this book

SOLIDWORKS is the leading choice for 3D engineering and product design applications across industries such as aviation, automobiles, and consumer product design. This book takes a practical approach to getting you up and running with SOLIDWORKS 2020. You'll start with the basics, exploring the software interface and working with drawing files. The book then guides you through topics such as sketching, building complex 3D models, generating dynamic and static assemblies, and generating 2D engineering drawings to equip you for mechanical design projects. You'll also do practical exercises to get hands-on with creating sketches, 3D part models, assemblies, and drawings. To reinforce your understanding of SOLIDWORKS, the book is supplemented by downloadable files that will help you follow up with the concepts and exercises found in the book. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the skills you need to create professional 3D mechanical models using SOLIDWORKS, and you'll be able to prepare effectively for the Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate (CSWA) and Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional (CSWP) exams.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Utilizing materials and mass properties for assemblies

When creating assemblies, we may need to determine the mass, volume, center of mass, and other related mass properties. This information is necessary as it helps us understand our product from a physical perspective. As a result, they will help us develop or modify our product in case we ever want to adjust the mass, volume, and so on, to meet a specific requirement. Similar to when working with parts, we can evaluate mass properties within the context of assemblies. In this section, we will learn about setting new coordinate systems, editing materials for the parts within the assembly, and how to evaluate the different mass properties for our assembly.

Setting a new coordinate system for an assembly

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