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SOLIDWORKS 2016: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users The premium provider of learning products and solutions www.cadartifex.com

Table of Contents Dedication... 3 Preface... 15 Part 1. Introducing to SOLIDWORKS and Drawing Sketches Chapter 1. Introduction to SOLIDWORKS... 19-38 Installing SOLIDWORKS... 20 Getting Started with SOLIDWORKS... 20 Task Pane... 21 Standard Toolbar... 21 SOLIDWORKS Menus... 21 SOLIDWORKS Search... 22 Invoking New SOLIDWORKS Document... 22 Part Environment... 23 Assembly Environment... 24 Drawing Environment... 24 Identifying SOLIDWORKS Documents... 24 Invoking Part Modeling Environment... 24 CommandManager... 25 FeatureManager Design Tree... 29 View (Heads-Up) Toolbar... 30 Status Bar... 30 Task Pane... 30 Invoking Assembly Environment... 31 Assembly CommandManager... 32 Invoking Drawing Environment... 33 View Layout CommandManager... 34 Annotation CommandManager... 34 Invoking Shortcut Menu... 34 Customizing Context Toolbar of the Shortcut Menu... 36 Customizing CommandManager... 37 Saving Documents...38 Opening Existing Documents... 38 Summary... 38 Questions... 38 Chapter 2. Drawing Sketches with SOLIDWORKS... 39-104 Invoking the Part Modeling Environment... 41 Invoking the Sketching Environment... 43 Understanding Selection of Planes... 45 Specifying Units... 45 Specifying Grids and Snaps Settings... 47

6 Table of Contents Drawing a Line Entity... 48 Procedure for Drawing a Line... 50 Example 1... 51 Hands-0n Test Drive 1... 54 Drawing an Arc by using the Line tool...... 54 Procedure for Drawing an Arc by using the Line tool... 55 Example 2... 56 Hands-0n Test Drive 2... 60 Drawing a Centerline... 61 Drawing a Midpoint Line... 62 Procedure for Drawing Midpoint Line... 62 Drawing a Rectangle... 62 Corner Rectangle... 63 Center Rectangle... 65 3 Point Corner Rectangle... 65 3 Point Center Rectangle... 66 Parallelogram... 67 Drawing a Circle... 68 Circle... 68 Perimeter Circle... 69 Drawing an Arc... 70 Centerpoint Arc... 70 3 Point Arc... 71 Tangent Arc... 71 Drawing a Polygon... 73 Procedure for Drawing a Polygon... 75 Drawing a Slot... 75 Straight Slot... 75 Centerpoint Straight Slot... 76 3 Point Arc Slot... 77 Centerpoint Arc Slot... 78 Drawing an Ellipse... 78 Procedure for Drawing an Ellipse... 79 Drawing an Elliptical Arc... 79 Procedure for Drawing an Elliptical Arc... 80 Drawing a Parabola... 80 Procedure for Drawing a Parabola... 81 Drawing Conic Curves... 81 Procedure for Drawing Conic Curves... 81 Drawing a Spline... 82 Spline... 83 Equation Driven Curve... 83 Style Spline... 86 Fit Spline... 87 Editing a Spline... 89

SOLIDWORKS 2016: A Power Guide > 7 Tutorial 1... 90 Tutorial 2... 96 Hands-0n Test Drive 3... 102 Hands-0n Test Drive 4... 103 Summary... 103 Questions... 103 Chapter 3. Editing and Modifying Sketches... 105-150 Trimming Sketch Entities... 106 Procedure for Trimming Entities by using the Trim Entities Tool... 109 Extending Sketch Entities... 109 Procedure for Extending Entities by using the Extend Entities Tool... 109 Offsetting Sketch Entities... 110 Procedure for Offsetting Entities... 113 Mirroring Sketch Entities... 113 Mirroring Entities by using the Mirror Entities Tool... 113 Mirroring Entities by using the Dynamic Mirror Tool... 115 Patterning Sketch Entities... 115 Linear Sketch Pattern... 115 Circular Sketch Pattern... 119 Moving a Sketch Entity... 123 Procedure for Moving Sketch Entities... 124 Creating a Copy of Sketch Entities... 124 Procedure for Creating a Copy of Sketch Entities... 125 Rotating an Entity... 125 Procedure for Rotating Sketch Entities... 126 Scaling Sketch Entities... 126 Procedure for Scaling Sketch Entities... 128 Stretching an Entity... 128 Procedure for Stretching Sketch Entities... 129 Tutorial 1... 129 Tutorial 2... 137 Tutorial 3... 144 Hands-0n Test Drive 1... 149 Summary... 149 Questions... 149 Chapter 4. Applying Geometric Relations and Dimensions... 151-204 Understanding Geometric Relations... 151 Applying Geometric Relations... 154 Using the Add Relation Tool for Applying Geometric Relation... 154 Using the Pop-up Toolbar for Applying Geometric Relation... 155 Controlling the Display of Geometric Relations... 156 Applying Dimensions... 156 Working with Smart Dimension tool... 157 Working with Horizontal Dimension and Vertical Dimension tools... 164 Working with Ordinate Dimension tool... 164

8 Table of Contents Modifying the Applied Dimensions... 166 Modifying Dimension Properties... 166 Different States of Sketch... 178 Under defined Sketch... 178 Fully defined Sketch... 178 Over defined Sketch... 179 Tutorial 1... 180 Tutorial 2... 189 Tutorial 3... 197 Hands-0n Test Drive 1... 203 Hands-0n Test Drive 2... 203 Summary... 204 Questions... 204 Part 2. Creating 3D Models/Components Chapter 5. Creating First/Base Feature of Solid Models... 205-238 Creating Extruded Base Feature... 206 Creating Revolved Base Feature... 215 Navigating 3D Model in Graphics Area... 220 Zoom In/Out... 220 Zoom To Fit... 221 Zoom to Area... 221 Zoom to Selection... 221 Pan... 222 Rotate... 222 Manipulating View Orientation of a Model... 222 Manipulating View Orientation by using the View Orientation flyout... 222 Manipulating View Orientation by using the Orientation dialog box... 224 Manipulating View Orientation by using the View Selector Cube... 225 Manipulating View Orientation by using the Triad... 225 Changing the Display Style of a Model... 226 Shaded With Edges... 226 Shaded... 226 Hidden Lines Removed... 226 Hidden Lines Visible... 227 Wireframe... 227 Changing the View of a Model... 227 Shadows In Shaded Mode... 228 Perspective... 228 Ambient Occlusion... 228 Cartoon... 228 Tutorial 1... 228 Tutorial 2... 231 Tutorial 3... 233

SOLIDWORKS 2016: A Power Guide > 9 Hands-0n Test Drive 1... 237 Hands-0n Test Drive 2... 237 Summary... 238 Questions... 238 Chapter 6. Creating Reference Geometries... 239-272 Creating Reference Planes... 240 Creating a Plane at an Offset Distance... 243 Creating a Parallel Plane... 244 Creating a Plane at an Angle... 244 Creating a Plane passing through Three Points/Vertices... 244 Creating a Plane Normal to a Curve... 245 Creating a Plane at the middle of two Faces/Planes... 245 Creating a Plane Tangent to a Cylindrical Face... 246 Creating a Plane Parallel to the Screen... 247 Creating a Plane Projected onto a Non-Planar Face... 247 Creating Reference Axis... 248 Creating Reference Coordinate System... 251 Procedure for Creating Reference Coordinate System... 251 Creating Reference Point... 252 Tutorial 1... 255 Tutorial 2... 262 Tutorial 3... 268 Hands-0n Test Drive 1... 271 Summary... 272 Questions... 272 Chapter 7. Advanced Modeling - I... 273-334 Advance Options of the Extruded Boss/Base tool... 273 Creating Cut Features... 277 Creating Extruded Cut Features... 277 Creating Revolved Cut Features... 279 Working with Different Types of Sketches... 281 Close Sketches... 281 Open Sketches... 281 Nested Sketches... 281 Intersecting Sketch... 283 Working with Contours/Regions of a Sketch... 283 Procedure for Extruding Contours by using Selected Contours Rollout... 284 Procedure for Extruding Contours by using Contour Select Tool... 285 Projecting Edges on the Sketching Plane... 287 Procedure for Projecting Edges onto the Sketching Plane... 288 Editing a Feature... 289 Procedure for Editing a Feature... 289 Procedure for Editing Sketch of a Feature... 289

10 Table of Contents Measuring the Distance between Entities/Faces... 290 Procedure for Measuring Distance between Entities/Faces... 294 Assigning Appearance/Texture... 294 Assigning Predefined Appearance/Texture... 294 Assigning Customized Appearance... 295 Applying Material... 298 Procedure for Applying Standard Material... 298 Procedure for Applying Customized Material Properties... 300 Calculating Mass Properties... 302 Procedure for Calculating Mass Properties... 306 Tutorial 1... 306 Tutorial 2... 313 Tutorial 3... 324 Hands-0n Test Drive 1... 332 Hands-0n Test Drive 2... 333 Summary... 333 Questions... 334 Chapter 8. Advanced Modeling - II... 335-426 Creating Sweep Feature... 335 Procedure for Creating Sweep Feature with Sketch Profile... 349 Procedure for Creating Sweep Feature with Circular Profile... 349 Procedure for Creating Sweep Feature with One Guide Curve... 349 Procedure for Creating Sweep Feature with Two Guide Curves... 350 Procedure for Creating Twisted Sweep Feature... 350 Creating Sweep Cut Feature... 350 Procedure for Creating Sweep Cut Feature with Sketch Profile... 352 Procedure for Creating Sweep Cut Feature with Circular Profile... 352 Procedure for Creating Sweep Cut Feature with Solid Profile... 353 Creating Lofted feature... 353 Procedure for Creating Lofted Feature... 362 Procedure for Creating Lofted Feature by using Guide Curves... 363 Procedure for Creating Lofted Feature by using Centerline... 363 Creating Lofted Cut Feature... 363 Creating Boundary Feature... 364 Procedure for Creating Boundary Feature... 368 Creating Boundary Cut Feature... 369 Creating Curve Feature... 369 Creating Projected Curves... 369 Creating Helical and Spiral Curves... 372 Creating Curves by Specifying XYZ Points... 377 Creating Curves by Selecting Reference Points... 379 Creating Composite Curve... 380 Splitting the Faces of a Model... 381 Procedure for Splitting Faces by using the Projection Method... 384 Procedure for Splitting Faces by using the Intersection Method... 384 Procedure for Splitting Faces by using the Silhouette Method... 385

SOLIDWORKS 2016: A Power Guide > 11 Creating 3D Sketches... 385 Using the Line Tool in the 3D Sketching Environment... 386 Using the Spline Tool in the 3D Sketching Environment... 387 Tutorial 1... 390 Tutorial 2... 397 Tutorial 3... 407 Tutorial 4... 414 Hands-0n Test Drive 1... 424 Hands-0n Test Drive 2... 424 Summary... 425 Questions... 426 Chapter 9. Patterning and Mirroring... 427-488 Patterning Features/Faces/Bodies... 427 Creating Linear Pattern... 428 Creating Circular Pattern... 440 Creating Curve Driven Pattern... 442 Creating Sketch Driven Pattern... 447 Creating Table Driven Pattern... 449 Creating Fill Pattern... 452 Creating Variable Pattern... 456 Mirroring a Feature... 460 Procedure for Creating Mirror Feature... 462 Tutorial 1... 462 Tutorial 2... 469 Tutorial 3... 475 Hands-0n Test Drive 1... 486 Hands-0n Test Drive 2... 487 Summary... 487 Questions... 488 Chapter 10. Advanced Modeling - III... 489-556 Working with Hole Wizard... 489 Procedure for Creating Hole by using Hole Wizard... 496 Adding Cosmetic threads... 496 Procedure for Adding Cosmetic Thread... 499 Creating Thread... 500 Procedure for Creating Thread... 503 Creating Fillets... 503 Creating Constant Radius Fillet... 504 Creating Variable Radius Fillet... 509 Creating Face Fillets... 512 Creating Full Round Fillet... 514 Creating Chamfer... 516 Procedure for Creating Chamfer on Edges and Faces... 518 Procedure for Creating Chamfer on Vertex... 518

12 Table of Contents Creating Rib Features... 518 Procedure for Creating Rib Feature... 520 Creating Shell Features... 521 Procedure for Creating Shell Feature with Uniform Wall Thickness... 523 Procedure for Creating Shell Feature with Multi-Thickness... 523 Tutorial 1... 523 Tutorial 2... 537 Tutorial 3... 548 Hands-0n Test Drive 1... 554 Hands-0n Test Drive 2... 555 Summary... 556 Questions... 556 Chapter 11. Working with Assemblies - I... 557-646 Bottom-up Assembly Approach... 558 Top-down Assembly Approach... 558 Creating Assembly by using Bottom-up Approach... 558 Inserting Components by using the Begin Assembly PropertyManager... 560 Inserting Components by using the Insert Component PropertyManager... 562 Understanding the Degrees of Freedom... 564 Applying Relations or Mates... 564 Working with Standard Mates... 566 Working with Advanced Mates... 569 Working with Mechanical Mates... 577 Moving and Rotating Individual Components... 584 Moving a Component by using the Move Component Tool... 584 Rotating a Component by using the Rotate Component Tool... 588 Working with SmartMates... 588 Tutorial 1... 590 Tutorial 2... 618 Hands-0n Test Drive 1... 643 Summary... 646 Questions... 646 Chapter 12. Working with Assemblies - II... 647-694 Creating Assembly by using Top-down Approach... 648 Procedure for Creating Assembly by using Top-down Approach... 648 Editing Assembly Components... 654 Editing Assembly Components within the Assembly Environment... 655 Editing Assembly Components in the Part Modeling Environment... 656 Editing Mates... 657 Patterning Assembly Components... 657 Creating Pattern Driven Pattern... 658 Creating Chain Component Pattern... 661

Mirroring Components of an Assembly... 666 Procedure for Mirroring Components of an Assembly... 668 Creating Assembly Features... 668 Suppressing or Unsuppressing Components... 669 Inserting the Parts having Multiple Configurations... 669 Creating and Dissolving Sub-Assemblies... 670 Creating Exploded View... 671 Procedure for Creating Regular Exploded View... 676 Procedure for Creating Radial Exploded View... 676 Collapsing Exploded View... 677 Animating Exploded View... 678 Editing Exploded View... 678 Adding Explode Lines in an Exploded View... 679 Procedure for Creating Exploded Lines... 679 Creating Bill of Material (BOM) of an Assembly... 680 Tutorial 1... 681 Hands-0n Test Drive 1... 691 Summary... 694 Questions... 694 Chapter 13. Working with Drawing... 695-748 Invoking Drawing Environment by using the New Tool... 696 Creating the Model or a Base View of a Model... 699 Invoking Drawing Environment from the Part or Assembly Environment... 703 Creating Model View... 704 Procedure for Creating Model/Base View... 704 Creating Projected View... 705 Procedure for Creating Projected Views... 705 Creating 3 Standard Views... 706 Concept of Angle of Projection... 707 Defining Angle of Projection for a Drawing... 708 Editing Sheet Format... 709 Creating other Drawing Views... 709 Creating Section View... 710 Creating Auxiliary View... 715 Creating Detail View... 716 Creating Broken-out Section View... 717 Creating Break View... 718 Creating Crop View... 719 Creating Alternate Position View... 719 Applying Dimensions... 720 Applying Reference Dimensions... 720 Applying Driving Dimensions... 721 Modifying Driving Dimension... 723 Controlling Dimension and Arrow Style... 723 Adding Notes... 724 Adding Surface Finish Symbol... 725

14 Table of Contents Adding Weld Symbol... 726 Adding Hole Callout... 728 Adding Center Mark... 728 Adding Centerlines... 730 Creating Bill of Material (BOM)... 730 Procedure for Creating Bill of Material (BOM)... 733 Adding Balloons... 734 Adding Balloon Automatically... 734 Adding Balloon Manually... 736 Tutorial 1... 737 Hands-0n Test Drive 1... 746 Summary... 747 Questions... 747 Index... 749-758