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Learn SOLIDWORKS - Second Edition

By : Tayseer Almattar
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Learn SOLIDWORKS - Second Edition

By: Tayseer Almattar

Overview of this book

SOLIDWORKS is the leading choice for 3D engineering and product design applications across industries such as aviation, automobile, and consumer product design. This book helps you to get up and running with SOLIDWORKS and understand each new concept and tool with the help of easy-to-follow exercises. You'll begin with the basics, exploring the software interface and finding out how to work 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 prepare you to take on any design project. You'll also work with practical exercises to get hands-on experience 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 to understand the concepts and exercises more easily. Finally, you'll also work on projects for 3D modeling objects inspired by everyday life. By the end of this SOLIDWORKS book, you'll have gained the skills you need to create professional 3D mechanical models using SOLIDWORKS and be able to prepare effectively for the Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate (CSWA) and Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional (CSWP) exams.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
1
Section 1 – Getting Started
4
Section 2 – 2D Sketching
7
Section 3 – Basic Mechanical Core Features – Associate Level
10
Section 4 – Basic Evaluations and Assemblies – Associate Level
13
Section 5 – 2D Engineering Drawings Foundation
18
Section 6 – Advanced Mechanical Core Features – Professional Level
21
Section 7 – Advanced Assemblies – Professional Level

Understanding and utilizing design tables

Through configurations, we were able to create different variations of a particular 3D model. Design tables will also allow us to create different variations of a 3D model. However, unlike directly setting up configurations, design tables will enable us to generate more than one variation at the same time instead of generating them one after the other. In this section, we will cover how to set up design tables and some scenarios in which design tables will give us an advantage over directly setting up configurations.

What are design tables?

Design tables are one method that will enable us to create multiple variations of a specific 3D model at once. Design tables make it easy and efficient to set up different dimensions for lengths and angles. They also allow easy manipulation for suppressing certain features in specific model variations or configurations. The following drawing highlights a simple application of a design table with the...