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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we covered different sketching commands that can enhance our sketching capabilities. These included sketch mirrors, which allow us to generate mirrored sketch entities around a mirror line. We also covered offsetting, which allows us to generate duplicated sketch entities at an offset. Then, we learned about linear and circular patterns, which allow us to create many instances of a sketch entity in a specified pattern. Finally, we covered trimming tools, which allow us to remove unwanted parts of our sketches.

In the next chapter, we will cover our first set of features. So far, we've only learned about 2D sketches. Features will allow us to turn our 2D sketches into 3D models.