Fred Fulkerson - SolidWorks Basics

SOLIDWORKS BASICS A Project Based Approach Fred Fulkerson Industrial Press, Inc. Industrial Press, Inc. 32 Haviland Street, Unit 2C South Norwalk, Connecticut 06854 Phone: 212-889-6330 Toll-Free in USA: 888-528-7852 Fax: 212-545-8327 E-mail: SolidWorks Basics: A Project Based Approach By Fred Fulkerson ISBN print: 978-0-8311-3593-5 ISBN ePDF: 978-0-8311-9336-2 ISBN ePUB: 978-0-8311-9337-9 ISBN MOBI: 978-0-8311-9338-6 Copyright 2015 by Industrial Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Published 2015. Printed in the United States of America. Sponsoring Editor: Taisuke Soda Developmental Editor: Laura Brengelman Cover Designer: Janet Romano-Murray Excel is a registered trademark of the Microsoft Corporation. Sponsoring Editor: Taisuke Soda Developmental Editor: Laura Brengelman Cover Designer: Janet Romano-Murray Excel is a registered trademark of the Microsoft Corporation.

LEGO is a registered trademark of the The LEGO Group. Mastercam is a registered trademark of CNC Software, Inc. SolidWorks is a registered trademark of Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corporation. Minions are characters in the feature films Despicable Me ( 2010), Despicable Me2 ( 2013), and Minions ( 2015), which are trademarks of and copyrighted by Universal Studios, LLC. All rights reserved. The LEGO Minion images in this book are original drawings created by the author using SolidWorks and are provided solely as part of the project based instructions designed for teaching SolidWorks.

Instructors materials for this book can be found at sites.google.com/site/fredumacations/solidworks-minions Also visit us at: industrialpress.comebooks.industrialpress.com Table of Contents Show Hide Planes SW Docking the Menu Bar Adding a Command Button Removing a Command Button LA Handle LA Constraints LA Handle Extrude LPattern Re_Arranging Features Shell Midpoint Constraint Extrude to Face Rib Creation Dimensioning Angles Diameter Dimensioning Sketch Mirror Switching Sketch Planes Offsetting Sketch Entities Trimming Entities Circular Sketch Pattern Symmetrical Relationship Counter Block Cut Top Slot SolidWorks Sketch Arch Share Sketch Creating Design Configurations Naming Dimensions Configure Dimension Deleting Constraints Mid Plane Creation New View Orientation Copy Sketch Revolve Cut Feature Create Full Round Fillet CD 00 Creation CD Naming Dimensions CD Design Table CD Bell CD Edit Table Heat Sink Rib Rib Linear Pattern Rollback Bar Create Full Round Fillet Edit LPattern 15_5 Plane Rib Convert Entities Mirror Rib End Rib Rotate Assembly Component Adding a Concentric Mate Editing a Part in an Assembly Coincident Mate Creating a Subassembly within an Assembly Copying an Assembly Component Select Other Copy with Mates Mirror Assembly Components Evaluate Measure Replacement Component Explode Wheel Radial Explode Starting a Drawing Restoring Title Block Links Creating Section Views Fixing Dimensions Editing Dimension Text Adding a Chamfer Dimension Setting Dimension Precision Editing Your Drawing Notes Creating a Projected View Breaking the View Alignment Broken-out Section Adding a Linked Note Creating a Detail View Creating an Aligned Section Dimensioning to a Virtual Sharp Reordering Drawing Sheets Creating a Bill of Materials Adding Balloon Items Magnetic Line BP Shank Sketch BP Hole Wizard SW New Material BP Sub Assembly BP Insert Component BP Hole Series BP Insert Fastener BP Assembly Main BP Copy Parts Change Transparency Mirror Subassembly to Create Opposite Hand Version Threaded Explosion Break in View Creating a Cropped View Creating a Hole Callout Creating Ordinate Dimensions Creating a Hole Table Creating Cosmetic Threads Creating a Basic Loft Extrude up to Body Hole Wizard Adding Raised Text Adding a Cast Iron Appearance Creating a Helix Thread-Swept Cut Sweep Cut Thread Derived Sketch Composite Curve Sweep Boss Cutting with a Line Adding a Simple Equation Insert into New Part Creating a Derived Part Editing a Derived Part Inserting a Sketch Picture Wrap Feature Creating a Limit Distance Mate Symmetry Mate Screw Mate Using Cavity to Create Internal Threads Creating Global Variables Creating an In Context Part Adding in Context Hole Wizard Holes In Context Nylon Bushing Adding a Folder for Fasteners Up to Vertex Extrusion Face Fillet TC Sketch Picture TC Spline TC Create View Deleting Constraints TC Delete Face This book is for anyone who wishes to learn SolidWorks and has little or no prior knowledge of any CAD software. It also is for anyone who uses SolidWorks to design and prototype parts,jigs, fixtures, and manufactured components or for 3D visualization, since the contents teach both specific SolidWorks steps and good design skills. All of the instructions are project based and focus on the development of sound modeling skills. Parts are created using most of the available solid modeling features of the software, which are brought together in fully functioning assemblies and result in the creation of part and assembly drawings. The LEGO Minion projects were designed to be fun and productive exercises. The rest of the projects not only show how to take advantage of SolidWorks many features but also teach tolerancing and some basic tool design, while stressing the importance of a solid design intent.

Like any good software package, SolidWorks provides multiple ways to arrive at your final design. This book will lead you down many of these pathways, resulting in a large resource base to draw from when encountering new design challenges. One of the nicest aspects of SolidWorks is that it is such an intuitive design tool, making it easy to learn the basics. Yet it is so complex and capable of such a wide range of tasks that once you start learning it, you will enjoy the challenge of doing more with this simple but advanced software tool. After completing this book, you will have a solid foundation on which to continue building your skills. Acknowledgments I would like to thank the following teachers/professors for providing valuable input in the development of this book: Henry Kastner, Mike Verwey, Bradley Smith, Don Yusep, and Bill Ferguson.

I also would like to thank my employer, Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, and particularly Mitchell Wawzonek, Chair of Enginneering and Information Technology, for encouraging me to undertake this project. Thanks also to my students who made numerous suggestions on how the LEGO Minion material could be clarified. Finally, I would like to thank my family for all of their support while I toiled away in the basement. To best address various learning styles, the exercises in this guide to SolidWorks basics include detailed explanations as well as comprehensive visual aids. Each of the projects is presented through clear step-by-step instructions, screen shots, and links to online instructional videos that can be accessed by scanning QR (quick response) codes, or, for ebook readers, by clicking on a direct link. (For a list of these videos, see .) To help readers develop and expand their SolidWorks skills, the various projects are designed to be followed in sequence.

While particular steps can be studied independently, the best way to gain a command of this program is to start at the beginning and work your way through each section in order. With each new section, you will apply the knowledge that you previously learned and build new skills on that foundation. If you find that you do not recall how to use a command, use the table of contents or the index to find the exercise addressing the specific command and then follow the steps again. Again, you also can watch the online instructional videos, which show how things are done. Plus the appendixes include useful information on contraint/relationships, dimension tolerance types, common short cuts, and mathematical calculations that can be performed in any of the entry fields. Finally, the contents of this book explain how to use many of feature of SolidWorks, including those found in the 2014 and 2015 versions.