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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)

Trimming in SOLIDWORKS sketching

Trimming in SOLIDWORKS allows us to easily remove unwanted sketch entities or unwanted parts of sketch entities. This makes it easier for us to create complex sketches. In this section, we will cover what trimming is, why we use trimming, and how to use trimming within SOLIDWORKS.

Understanding trimming

Trimming allows us to delete parts of sketches that are unwanted. Let's examine the following sketch to see what trimming is all about:

  • Draw two arcs and connect them
  • Draw two circles and trim the interfaced area:

For this simple sketch, we can start by sketching two circles, as shown in the following diagram. After that, we can simply trim/remove the interfering parts to get our desired...