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Learn SOLIDWORKS 2020

By : Tayseer Almattar
Book Image

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)

Questions

The following questions will reinforce the main topics we learned in this chapter. However, it is also good practice to pick random objects and model them in SOLIDWORKS to improve our skills:

  1. Describe the functions of the draft, shell, and rib features.
  2. What is the Hole Wizard and why is it useful?
  3. Create the following part in SOLIDWORKS. Hint: Use the draft and shell features:
  1. Create the following part in SOLIDWORKS. Hint: Use the rib feature and the Hole Wizard:

  1. Create the following part in SOLIDWORKS. Hint: Use the rib and draft features and the Hole Wizard. You may also use reference geometries and the sweep boss. Due to the large amount of information this part contains, the drawing was split up into two screenshots. Both screenshots are for this one question:

  1. What are multi-body parts and what are some advantages of using them?
  2. Create the following...