Learning SOLIDWORKS : For Students, Engineers, and Designers
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SOLIDWORKS is a very productive 3D CAD software tool. It helps to design various products and services, testing them in very cost effective way like Model and prototype testing as you learned earlier in engineering degree class.
The Solidworks have wide range of applications in industries such as
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Aerospace
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Defense
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Automotive
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Transportation
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Machinery
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Heavy Equipment
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Consumer products
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Mold & Tools design
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Electronics
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Sheet metal work
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Process Plant
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Energy conservation
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Construction
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Medical tools
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Product design and other engineering services.
This course will help you in understanding and learning the basic and advanced tools of the software. You will get a thorough knowledge and hands on experience on Sketch, Part, Assembly and Surface Environments of SOLIDWORKS.
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Introduction to SOLIDWORKSAfter going through this video you will get familiar with the real world applications of SOLIDWORKS and its use in the industry.
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User Interface of SOLIDWORKS
After watching this video, you will become familiar with the interface of SOLIDWORKS.
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Customizing Command Managers and Toolbars in SOLIDWORKS
After watching this video, you will be able to customize the interface of SOLIDWORKS.
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Starting a New File and Opening an Existing one in SOLIDWORKS
After watching this video, you will be able to start a new file and open an already created file.
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Entering the Sketching Environment
After watching this video, you will learn how to get into the sketching environment of SOLIDWORKS.
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Creating Line, Centerline, and Midpoint Line
After watching this video, you will be able to create lines, center and midpoint lines.
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Creating Circles
After watching this video, you will be able to create different types of circles.
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Creating Arcs
After watching this video, you will be able to create different types of arcs.
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Creating Rectangles
After watching this video, you will be able to create different types of rectangles.
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Creating Polygons
After watching this video, you will be able to create different types of polygons.
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Creating Splines
After watching this video, you will be able to create different types of splines.
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Creating Slots
After watching this video, you will be able to create different types of slots.
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Placing Points
After watching this video, you will be able to place points in the drawing.
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Creating Ellipses and Elliptical Arcs
After watching this video, you will be able to create ellipses and elliptical arcs using various methods.
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Creating Parabolic and Conic Curves
After watching this video, you will be able to create different types of curves used in drawings.
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Creating Equation Driven Curves
After watching this video, you will be able to create curves by writing their equations.
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Drawing Display Tools
After watching this video, you will learn how to use the drawing display tools.
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Deleting Sketching Entities
After watching this video, you will learn how to delete sketched entities.
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Practice Example 1
This practice example will give you hands on experience in creating sketches.
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Practice Example 2
This practice example will give you hands on experience in creating sketches.
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Practice Example 3
This practice example will give you hands on experience in creating sketches.
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Trimming Entities
After watching this video, you will learn how to trim unwanted parts from a sketch.
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Extending Entities
After watching this video, you will learn how to extend sketched entities up to the required points.
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Convert Entities Tool
After watching this video, you will learn how to convert edges of a solid model into sketches.
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Creating Intersection Curves
After watching this video, you will learn how to create intersection curves.
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Filleting Entities
After going through this video, you will be able to apply fillets at the corners of the sketches.
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Creating Chamfers
After going through this video, you will be able to add chamfers at the corners of the sketches.
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Offsetting Entities
After going through this video, you will be able to offset the sketched entities at the required distance values.
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Offset on Surface Tool
After watching this video, you will be able to offset edges and faces of 3D Model.
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Mirroring Entities
After going through this video, you will be able to create to create a mirror image of the selected entities.
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Dynamically Mirror Entities
After going through this video, you will be able to mirror entities dynamically about a symmetry line while sketching.
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Moving Entities
After going through this video, you will be able to move sketched entities from one location to another.
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Rotating Entities
After going through this video, you will be able to rotate the sketched entities at specified angle values.
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Scaling Entities
After going through this video, you will be able to scale the sketched entities to a specified scale factor.
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Stretching Entities
After going through this video, you will be able to change the shape and size of the entities by stretching them along different directions.
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Copying and Pasting Entities
After going through this video, you will be able to copy and paste sketched entities within the same drawing file or some other drawing file.
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Creating Linear Patterns
After going through this video, you will be able to create copies of objects using the linear pattern tool.
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Creating Circular Patterns
After going through this video, you will be able to create copies of objects using the circular pattern tool.
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Modifying Sketch Patterns
After going through this video, you will be able to modify the created patterns.
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Splitting Entities
After going through this video, you will be able to split the entities into required number of parts.
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Writing Text
After going through this video, you will be able to add text in your drawing file.
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Practice Example 1
This practice example will give you hands on experience in editing and modifying sketches.
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Practice Example 2
This practice example will give you hands on experience in editing and modifying sketches.
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Practice Example 3
This practice example will give you hands on experience in editing and modifying sketches.
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Adding Relations
After going through this video, you will be able to add geometric relations between the entities in a sketch.
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Adding Automatic Relations
After going through this video, you will be able to learn about the automatic relations that are applied in a sketch.
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Dimensioning a Sketch and Smart Dimension Tool
After going through this video, you will be able to use the Smart dimension tool to add various types of dimensions in a sketch.
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Adding Horizontal and Vertical Dimensions
After going through this video, you will be able to add horizontal and vertical dimension values in a sketch.
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Aligned Dimensions
After going through this video, you will be able to add aligned dimensions to a sketch.
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Angular Dimensions
After going through this video, you will be able to add angular dimensions to a sketch.
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Adding Diametric Dimensions
After going through this video, you will be able to add diametric dimensions to a sketch.
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Adding Radial Dimensions
After going through this video, you will be able to add radial dimensions to entities in a sketch.
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Adding Linear Diametric Dimensions
After going through this video, you will be able to add diametric dimensions in a linear fashion.
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Adding Ordinate Dimensions
After going through this video, you will be able to add dimensions in the form of coordinate values at a particular point of the sketched entity.
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Practice Example 1
This practice example will give you a hands on experience in adding relations and dimensions to a sketch.
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Practice Example 2
This practice example will give you a hands on experience in adding relations and dimensions to a sketch.
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Fully Defining the Sketches
After going through this video, you will be able to make the sketches fully defined by adding required dimensions and relations to them.
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Dimensioning the True Length of an Arc
After going through this video, you will be able to add the true length dimension value to an arc.
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Measuring Distances
After going through this video, you will be able to measure distances between any two points in a drawing.
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Determining the Section Properties of Closed Sketches
After going through this video, you will be able to calculate the section properties of closed sketches.
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Modifying the View Orientation
After going through this video, you will be able to the view the models in different orientations.
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Changing the View Orientation using the Reference Triad
After going through this video, you will be able to change the view orientation using the reference triad.
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Displaying the model in different Viewport configurations
After going through this video, you will be able to view the model in different viewport configurations.
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Display Modes of a Model
After going through this video, you will be able to change the display modes of a model.
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Assigning Materials to the Model
After going through this video, you will be able to assign materials to a model.
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Need for creating Planes
After going through this video, you will come to know about the need of creating planes.
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Creating Offset Planes and Parallel Planes passing through a Point
After going through this video, you will be able to create offset planes and parallel planes passing through a Point.
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Creating planes at angle to an existing plane and passing through Lines, Points
After going through this video, you will be able to create planes at angle to an existing plane and passing through Lines, Points.
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Creating a plane normal to a curve and in the middle of two faces
After going through this video, you will be able to create a plane normal to a curve and a plane in the middle of two faces.
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Creating a plane on non-planar surface
After going through this video, you will be able to create a plane on non-planar surface.
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Creating Reference Axes
After going through this video, you will be able to create reference axes of your own.
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Creating Reference Points
After going through this video, you will be able to create reference points of your own.
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Creating Reference Coordinate Systems
After going through this video, you will be able to create reference Coordinate systems of your own.
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Creating Center of Mass
After going through this video, you will be able to calculate center of mass for a solid body..
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Practice Example 1
This practice example will give you hands on experience in creating bodies using reference planes.
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Creating Extruded Features
After going through this video, you will be able to add thickness to sketches using the Extruded Boss/Base tool.
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Creating Revolved Features
After going through this video, you will be able to create revolved features using Revolved Boss/Base tool.
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Creating Extruded Cuts
After going through this video, you will be able to create cuts in the extruded feature.
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Creating Revolved Cuts
After going through this video, you will be able to create revolved cuts in the created features.
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Determining the Mass Properties of Solid Models
After going through this video, you will be able to calculate the mass properties of a solid body.
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Dynamically Rotating the View of a Model
After going through this video, you will know how to dynamically rotate the view of a model.
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Practice Example 1
This practice example will give you hands on experience in creating part models.
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Practice Example 2
This practice example will give you hands on experience in creating part models.
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Practice Example 3
This practice example will give you hands on experience in creating part models.
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Practice Example 4
This practice example will give you hands on experience in creating part models.
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Practice Example 5
This practice example will give you hands on experience in creating part models.
