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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we learned skills that will enable us to create more robust and agile models. We covered equations that will enable us to create more connected models to help us to deliver our design intents. We also learned how to create different configurations of a specific model. We learned how to do that by directly and manually adding and adjusting configuration or by using design tables to accomplish a similar objective.

The new skills in this chapter will enable us to generate more connected models. They will also enable us to generate many different variations of a model in a single SOLIDWORKS file. These will enable us to more efficiently conduct variation testing and quicker adjustments, which were the goals of this chapter.

In the next chapter, we will cover advanced mates within assemblies, which will help us to create assemblies with parts that have more...