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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)

Introducing SOLIDWORKS sketching

In this section, we will discuss what SOLIDWORKS sketches are. We will inform you of the importance of SOLIDWORKS sketching functions and how to view them when modeling with SOLIDWORKS. SOLIDWORKS sketches are the base of each SOLIDWORKS model. Thus, it is important to master SOLIDWORKS sketching first.

The position of SOLIDWORKS sketches

Sketches are typically viewed as fast drafts of a certain shape. For example, the following diagrams show a hand-drawn sketch of a square and a sketch of a cube, respectively. The main point of these is to provide a rough idea of an object. In the following sketch, we are communicating the idea of a square, without specifying how big that object is:

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