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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)

Understanding and utilizing the Interference and Collision Detection tools

By now, we know that most of the products we deal with in our everyday life consist of more than one part, regardless of whether we are looking at a simple pen or a complex engine. As SOLIDWORKS professionals, we will require more tools than just mates to help us to evaluate our assembly. In this section, we will cover the Interference and Collision Detection tools. We will cover what they are and how to use them in SOLIDWORKS assemblies. Throughout this section, we will be working with the assembly we linked with this chapter.

Interference Detection

Within an assembly, we might end up having different parts interfering with each other, meaning there...