SOLIDWORKS: Become A Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate (CSWA)

After Completing this Section, you will be able to:

• Open part in SolidWorks

• Get fimiliar with user interface of SolidWorks

• Learning about planes

• Learn to change document unit system

• Create first sketch in SolidWorks

• Learning about line command

• Use mouse gestures to speed up your design process

• Learn about types of rectangle command

• Learn to use circle command

• Create arcs using arc command

• Learn to make slots using slot command

• Create polygons using polygon command

• Use spline command to create irregular shapes

• Learn to draw ellipses using ellipse command

• Add fillet to your sketches

• Learn about all types of chamfers

• Learn to add dimensions to sketches

• Add relations to your sketches

• Learn about Under Defines, Fully Defined and Over Defined sketches

This Lecture Covers:

• How to open a part document in SolidWorks?

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand user interface of SolidWorks

• Understand command manager

• Understand command tabs

• Understand feature manager design tree

• Understand property manager

• Understand graphics area

• Understand status bar

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Learn about standard planes of SolidWorks

• know about standard Front, Right and Top Planes

• Understand importancs of origin

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Know how to change document unit system?

• Understand standard unit system

• MKS(meter,kilogram,second)

• CGS(centimeter,gram,second)

• MMGS(millimeter,gram,second)

• Add custom unit system

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Create first sketch in SolidWorks

• Select plane for sketching

• Select origin as starting point of sketch

• Add basic dimensions

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand basics of line command

• Understand as sketched line, horizontal line, vertical line and angle line

• Understand how to use construction line and infinite construction line

• Understand the power of midpoint line

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the power of mouse gesture

• Learn how to zoom in and zoom out using mouse gestures

• Learn to use left click mouse button for selecting entities

• Learn to use the power of right click mouse button for shortcuts

• Customize mouse gestures accurding to your requirement

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand importance of rectangle command

• Learn to use different types of rectangles

• Learn to use corner rectangle, centerpoint rectangle, 3 point corner rectangle, 3 point center rectangle and parallelogram

• Learn to differnet shapes using rectangle command

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Learn about the importance of circle command

• Make two types of circles

• Make centerpoint circle and perimeter circle

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of arc command

• Make arcs using arc command

• Make centerpoint arc, tangent arc and three point arc

• Use arc command to make complex sketches

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of slot command

• Make differnet types of slots using slot command

• Make straignt slot, centerpoint slot, three point arc slot  and centerpoint arc slot

• Use slot command to make complex sketches

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand use of polygon command

• Create multiple sided polygonsusing polygon command

• Make inscribed circle polygons

• Make circumscribed polygons

• Use polygons to create complex sketches

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand use of spline command

• Create standard spline command

• Adjust shape and orientation of spline using controll points

• Use stype spline for more smooth curves

• Control style spline using controll points

• Use spline command to make irregular sketches

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand use of ellipse command

• Create ellipses using standard ellipse command

• Make complex shapes using partial ellipse command

• Create parabola and conic

• Make complex sketches using ellipse command

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of fillet command

• Apply fillet to sketch using three methods

• Adjust radius of the fillet

• Apply dimensions of single or multiple fillets

• Smooth edges of sketches using fillet command

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand use of chamfer command

• Use distance-distance chamfer

• Use unequal-distance chamfer

• Use angle distance chamfer

• Smooth sharp corners using chamfer command

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the function of dimensions in SolidWorks

• Add dimensions to lines and rectangles

• Add dimensions to arcs and circles

• Apply angle between lines by using dimensions

  
  

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand basics of relations in SolidWorks

• Add vertical and and horizontal relations

• Add coincident relation to points or lines

• Add paralll and perpendicular relations

• Add colinear and symmetric relations

• Add concentric and tangent relations

• Add equal relations

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand under defined, fully defined and over defined sketches

• Make a sketch fully defined

• Add relations and dimensions to make a sketch fully defined

• Learn about over defined and how to avoid them

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Create sketch using line command

• Define origin of the sketch to start sketching

• Add the dimensions to sketch

• Fully define sketch by applying relations and dimensions

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Create sketch using line command and arc command

• Define origin of the sketch to start sketching

• Add relations and dimensions to fully define the sketch

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Create sketch using line, circle and arc command

• Define the origin of the sketch to start sketching

• Add relations and dimensions to fully define sketch

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Create sketch using line, circle and chamfer command

• Define the origin of the sketch to start sketching

• Add relations and dimensions to fully define sketch

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Create sketch using line and rectangle command

• Define the origin of the sketch to start sketching

• Add relations and dimensions to fully define sketch

After Completing this Section, you will be able to:

• Use power of trim entities

• Use extend entities as advance sketching tool

• Use power of offset entities in sketching

• Create multiple planes using reference geometry

• Use power of convert entities

• Use magic of mirror entities

• Use dynamic mirror entities in advance sketching

• Use linear sketch pattern to make complex sketches

• Use circular sketch pattern to make complex sketches

• Use move entities

• Use copy entities to copy and paste sketches

• Use rotate entities to rotate sketches

• Scale sketches using scale sketches

• Stretch sketches using stretch entities

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of trim entities

• Use different types of trim entities

• Use power trim

• Use corner trim

• Use trim away inside

• Use trim away outside

• Use trim to closest

• Use trim entities to modify sketch entities

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of extend entities

• Use extend entities to entend sketches upto next sketches

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand use of offset entities

• Add or remove dimensions in offset enties

• Select or desellect chain

• Use bi-directional offset enties

• Use end caps in offset entities

• Make base geometry or offset geometry construction geometry

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand use of adding multiple planes in part modeling

• Add planes, reference to standard planes

• Add perpendicular, parallel or coincident planes

• Add offset distance of plane

• Increase number of planes and flip direction of plane

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of convert entities

• Sketch on multipleplanes

• Copy sketches from one plane to other by using convert entities

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of mirror entities

• Create symmetrical sketches using mirror entities

• Use mirror entities to increase your efficiency in sketching

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand use of dynamic mirror entities

• Differentiate between mirror entities and dynamic mirror entities

• Create vertical and horizontal sketches using dynamic mirror entities

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of linear sketch pattern

• Pattern sketches along a linear path using linear sketch pattern

• Change number of instances and distance between instances

• Create linear sketch pattern in two direction

• Use the power of skip instance to make complex patterns

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of circular sketch pattern

• Pattern sketches along a central point

• Adjust number of instance and angle between instances

• Use skip instances to make complex sketches

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understandthe use of move entities

• Move sketch entities by using move entities

• Move entities by using central point or coordinate system

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of copy entities

• Copy and paste sketch entities using copy entities

• Copy and pase entities using central point or coordinate system

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of rotate entities

• Rotate a sketch about a central point

• Rotate sketch to any angle you want

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of scale entities

• Scale up or scale down sketch entities

• Use the scale factor to scale up or scale down sketch entities

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of stretch entities

• Stretch sketch by using points

• Stretch sketch entities by using point or coordinate system

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand use of mirror entities to create sketches

• Use minimum sketching and maximum mirror entities to complete sketches

• Fully define sketches using relations and dimensions

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of offset entities to create sketch

• Use offset entites to complete sketch

• Make sketch fully defined using relations and dimensions

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand how to use circular sketch patterns to complerte exercise

• Use the power of trim entities to make sketch neat and clean

• Make sketch fully defined by using relations and dimensions

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of line command to create more complex sketches

• Fully define complex sketches using relations and dimensions

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of mirror entities and line command to make complex sketches

• Use the mirror command efficiently to increase productivity

• Make sketch fully defined by using the relations and dimensions

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the advance use of circular sketch patterns

• Use circular sketch patterns and skip instance to create complex sketches

• Use trim entities to remove extra sketching entities

• Convert sketch to 3D model using extrude boss feature

After Completing this Section, you will be able to:

• Use basics of extrude boss feature

• Use all shortcuts about orientation of part

• Use extrude boss start and end condition

• The power of extrude boss thin feature

• Learn about selected contours as advance extrusion

• Use extrude cut feature to remove material

• Smooth sharp edges using fillets

• Use chamfers to smooth edges of parts

• Learn to use extrude boss efficiently

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand about the importance of extrude boss feature

• Convert 2D sketches to 3D models

• Add blind and bi-directional and mid plane extrusion to sketches

• Add tapper angle to the extrusion

• Add tapper angle to blind, bi-directional and mid plne extrusion

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the importance of orientation of parts in SolidWorks

• Use view orientation tab and use different views of part

• Choose 7 standard part views using view orientation tab

• Use keyboard shortcut keys to switch to any desired view

• Switch to move normal to face or plane using view orientation tab and keyboard shortcut

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of start and end condition of the extrude boss feature

• Create extrude boss feature using start conditions

• Create extrusion using sketch plane, surface/face/plane, vertex and offset start condition

• Select end condition for extrusion

• Create extrusion using up to surface, up to vertex and offset from surface

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understandthe use of thin feature in extrude boss feature

• Apply one-directional or bi-directional thin feature to sketches

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of selected countors in extrude boss feature

• Make complex shapes using selected countors

• Extrude multiple sketches using selectes countors feature

• Create multibody parts using merge result option

• Merge multiple bodies using merge results option in extrude boss feature

  
  

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of extrude cut feature

• Remove material using any type of sketch and extrude cut feature

• Apply tapper angle to exturde cut feature

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of fillet feature

• Smooth sharp edges using fillet feature

• Apply multi-radius fillet to different edges/corners

• Adjust the radius of fillet according to design requirement

• Apply fillet on a face

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of chamfer feature

• Smooth sharp edges using chamfer feature

• Apply distance angle chamfer to sharp edges

• Change the distance and angle of the chamfer

• Apply chamfer on the face of a part

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand how to use extrude boss efficiently

• Use extrude boss feature to remove material instead of extrude cut

• Reduce the number of operation of a part

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand three standard views of drawing

• Use sketching command and extrude feature effectively

• Read standard views drawing and convert them into part

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand standard views drawing

• Use rectangle,ellipse and line command to make complex sketches

• Use selected countors

• Apply mid plane extrusion to make symmetrical part

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand standard views of drawing

• Use slot, circle, rectangle, line and arc command to make complex sketches

• Use selected countors

After Completing this Section, you will be able to:

• Revolve boss feature, a powerful feature in SolidWorks

• Remove material using revolve cut feature

• Learn to use swept boss feature for making complex parts

• Remove material by using swept cut feature

• Learn about the power of lofted boss feature

• Use lofted cut feature to remove material

• Learn to use power of mirror feature

• Pattern different features using linear feature pattern

• Use circular feature pattern to pattern features

• Use power of shell feature to remove material

• Use rib feature to increase strength of parts

• Learn power of equation in SolidWorks

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of revolve boss feature

• Select and change axis of revolution for revolve boss feature

• Change angle of revolution, uni-directional and bi-directional

• Change axis to make multiple parts from same sketch

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of revolve cut feature

• Select and change axis of revolution for revolve cut feature

• Change angle of revolution for uni-directional and bi-directional revolve cut

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of swept boss feature

• Use circular profile option in swept boss to create pipe like structure

• Use thin feature in swept boss to create hollow pipe

• Use uni-directional or bi-directional optin of thin feature in swept boss feature

• Create plane perpendicular to line and the point

• Make custom profile for swept boss feature to make complex parts

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of swept cut feature

• Use circular profile option in swept cut to create pipe like structure

• Make custom profile for swept cut feature to make complex parts

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of lofted vodd feature

• Create multiple planes offset from plane

• Create sketches un multiple planes

• Apply lofted boss feature to connect all of teh sketches to form a shape

• Change the shape of the lofted boss feature by using points

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of lofted cut feature

• Create multiple sketches on multiple planes

• Remove the material by using lofted cut feature

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of mirror feature

• Mirror multiple features like extrude boss, extrude cut across a plane

• Mirror a body across a side/plane to make complex shapes easily

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of linear feature pattern

• Pattern different features like extrude boss and extrude cut along a straignt path

• Change the number of instances and spacing between them

• Create complex parts using linear feature pattern

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand theuse of circular feature pattern

• Use circular feature pattern to make complex parts easily

• Change number of instances and angle between them

• Define equal or unequal spacing between instances

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of shell feature in part modeling

• Use shell feature to shell one or multiple sides of a part

• Create parts with uniform thickness

• Create shell of multi-thickness by using multi-thickness setting

• Change the shell thickness of multi-thickness setting to shell part with multiple thickness size

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of rib feature

• Use rib feature to make your parts strong

• Select rib feature to center, one side or other side according to requirement

• Add tapper inwards or outwards to rib feature

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of equations in part modeling

• Define glogal variables and assign values to them

• Add dimensions to parts using global variables

• Adjust global variables from equations to change the shape/dimensions of the parts

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of advance sketching techniques

• Use mirror command to makeyour design process easy

• Apply relations and dimensions to make sketch fully defined

• Use revolve boss feature to create a complex part

• Adjust the angle of revolution according tho the design requirement

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of revolve cut feature

• Create part using standard views of the drawing

• Define the sketch using relations and dimensions

• Use revolve cut feature to remove material from part

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of swept boss, swept cut and circulat feature patterns

• Read standard drawing views of a complex part

• Convert the drawing to a part

• Use swept boss and swept cut feature to create a pipe like structure

• Use extrude boss and circular feature pattern to make flange structure

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the importance of losted boss and lofted cut feature

• Create complex parts using lofted boss and lofted cut fetature

• Use lofted boss with centerline parameters to make complex part

• Remove material using lofted cut feature using centerline parameters

After Completing this Section, you will be able to:

• Change appearance of a part

• Add material to a part

• Check mass properties of a part

• Use measuring tool to measure parts dimensions

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Change the appearence of the part

• Apply differnet appearence effects on part including plastic, metal and wood

• Change the color of rhe part

• Change the background view of the part

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the importance of adding material to parts

• Apply different materials to parts according to your requirement

• View the properties of the material such as density and tensile strength

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the importance of mass properties

• Measure density, mass, volume, surface area and center of mass of a part

• Edit material and view change in mass properties of a part

After Completing this Lecture, you will be able to:

• Understand the use of measuring tools in part modeling

• Use measuring tool to measure length, radius or diameter of a part

• Meaure maximum, minimum or relative distance between circles