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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 learned about a set of features that allow us to create more complex 3D models than what we were able to create in the previous chapters. We learned about plane reference geometries, which allow us to add new reference planes in addition to the default ones. We also covered the swept boss and swept cut and lofted boss and lofted cut features. Each feature set requires more than one sketch if we wish to apply them. For each, we learned their definition, how to apply them, and how to modify them. The features that we covered in this chapter allow us to generate 3D models such as flexible tubings and irregularly shaped casings.

In the next chapter, we will learn about mass properties, which allow us to assign materials and calculate different properties, such as the mass of our 3D models.