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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)

Mirroring and offsetting sketches

Some of the sketching commands in SOLIDWORKS allow us to easily create more sketch entities based on ones we already have, including circles, rectangles, lines, or any combination of sketch entitles. Examples of such sketching commands are mirroring and offsetting. Using these commands will help us avoid creating similar sketch entities more than once. Here, we will start by exploring the mirroring and offsetting sketching commands. We will learn about what these commands do and how we can use them.

Mirroring a sketch

As the name suggests, mirroring a sketch means to reflect one or more sketch entities around a mirroring line. It is very similar to reflecting an image in a mirror. The following...