Solid Works is a solid modeling computer-aided design and computer-aided engineering computer program that runs on Microsoft Windows.

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 COURSE OUTLINE 

 

Starting a New Drawing

• SolidWorks colors

• Creating a circle

• Units and Rectangle

• Moving around the drawing screen

• Orientation

• Creating a 3D model

• Lines and Angles

• Holes

 

Sketch Entities and Tools

• Mouse gestures and the S key

• Origins & Circles

• Rectangle & Slots

• Perimeter Circle & Arcs

• Polygons & Spline

• Ellipse

• Fillet & Chamfers

• Sketch Text & Point

• Entities

 

Features

• Extruded Boss/Base

• Extrude Cut

• Hole Wizard

• Blind Holes & Fillet

 

Revolved Boss/Base

• Reference Planes

• Lofted Boss/Base

• Swept Boss/Base

 

Orthographic Views

• 3rd and 1st Angle Projections

• Fundamental of Drawing

• Section views

• Aligned section views

• Broken & Details views

• Auxiliary views

 

Assemblies

• Move & Rotate component

• Bottom-up assemblies

• Creating an exploded Isometric Assembly

• Bill of Materials (BOM)

• Title blocks

• Animate collapse

 

Threads and Fasteners

• Thread callouts

• Internal threads

• Threaded blind holes

 

Dimensioning

• Dimensions of a drawing

• Drawing scale

• Dimensioning holes and fillets

• Counter-bored and Counter-sunk Holes

• Angular and Ordinate Dimensions

• Locating Dimensions

• Fillets and rounds

 

Tolerancing

• Tolerancing Expressions

• Plus and Minus tolerances

• Creating Limit and Angular Tolerances

• Standard tolerances

• Chain and Baseline Dimensions

 

Bearings and Fit Tolerances

• Sleeve bearing

• Bearing from toolbox

• Ball bearings

• Shaft basis

• Manufactured bearings

 

Gears

• Gear formulas

• Crating gears

• Gear ratio

• Gears and Bearings

• Power Transmissions

• Keys, Keysets and Gears