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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)

Understanding and utilizing design tables

Through configurations, we were able to create different variations of a particular 3D model. Design tables will also allow us to create different variations of a 3D model. However, unlike directly setting up configurations, design tables will enable us to generate more than one variation at the same time instead of generating them one after the other. In this section, we will cover how to set up design tables and some scenarios in which design tables will give us an advantage over directly setting up configurations.

What are design tables?

Design tables are one method that will enable us to create multiple variations of a specific 3D model at once. Design tables make it easy and...