SolidWorks Expert Level: Design, Assembly & Simulations

Explore the SolidWorks interface, including the menu bar, search bar, feature and property managers, command manager, visual styles, and toolbox for nuts and bolts in assemblies.

Explore the SolidWorks interface, including view orientation to inspect inside faces and switch between display styles. Use sectioning and visibility controls to reveal planes and features.

Explore SolidWorks feature manager across assembly, part, and drawing files, using a draggable history line to reveal extrudes, cuts, fillets, patterns, and annotations, then apply materials.

Explore the SolidWorks environment and file types—part, assembly, and drawing—while noting feature manager operations, extrusion and fillets, and how drawings detail parts, standard parts, and serial numbers.

Discover the power of constraint sketches in SolidWorks, where every part is made from sketches and assembly changes propagate through mates, keeping designs fully defined and adaptable.

Master sketch basics and the significance of constraint sketches in SolidWorks, showing how every part in an assembly is built from constrained sketches and how dimensions propagate through mates.

Master sketching with the SolidWorks line tool, including horizontal, vertical, and angle lines, construction lines, and center and midpoint lines; learn selection, deletion, and efficient continuation of sketches.

Explore circle and rectangle sketching in SolidWorks, drawing normal and parameter circles, adding dimensions and constraints to define sketches. Learn five rectangle types: two-point, center, three-vertex, three-point center, and parallelogram.

This lecture explains sketch relations in SolidWorks, including horizontal, vertical, coincident, parallel, perpendicular, and tangent constraints between lines, points, and circles. Ensure each sketch is fully constrained for adaptive assemblies.

The video explains the physical significance of sketch relations and constraints through a simple assembly, showing how constraining dimensions and alignments keeps holes in place when parts change.

Learn how to constrain a SolidWorks sketch using smart dimensions and coincident constraints to center features, avoid over-constraining, and ensure sketches stay fully defined for reliable extrudes and assemblies.

Learn how to use the offset entities tool in SolidWorks to create offset lines, end caps with arcs, construction geometry, and linear sketch patterns for quick, precise part design.

Learn to convert 2d sketches into 3d parts with extrude boss base, adjusting height and direction. Explore draft, midplane, outward or inward thickness, and selecting regions for extruding.

Learn to extrude a sketch in SolidWorks, starting points and directions from the sketch plane, surfaces, and vertices, with options like blind, through all, up to surface, and midplane.

Explore extrude cut in SolidWorks using shortcut options to cut material from a sketch, including blind, through all, up to surface, midplane, draft, and thin features.

Learn to create a revolved boss base in SolidWorks by sketching on the front plane, selecting a revolve line, and applying up to surface, midplane, blind, and thin options.

Learn the revolve cut in SolidWorks to hollow a part by revolving a closed sketch around an axis, with 360° or partial angles. Include surface and thin feature options.

Master convert entities to fix a hole relative to an LED in an assembly, using sketch from edge, offsetting, and extrude cut to ensure movement with mates.

Learn how to use SolidWorks linear sketch pattern to create patterns in two directions with a defined pitch and entity count, yielding a fully constrained sketch.

Edit a part within an assembly to align its features with other parts so changes in mates move the feature accordingly, using sketching and extruding.

Explore the shell command in SolidWorks to hollow a part by removing interior faces and setting thickness, including multi-thickness options and editing features.

Explore applying fillets in SolidWorks, mastering constant, variable, face, and round fillets on edges and faces. Use the setback parameter for an appealing finish with full previews.

Explore chamfers in SolidWorks by applying five types - distance-angle, distance-distance, vertex, offset face, and distance - using the property manager to adjust edges between faces.

Explore the SolidWorks linear pattern feature by patterning a single extruded body along one or two directions, setting distance, instances, and references for a precise 3d array.

Master circular pattern in SolidWorks by selecting a feature, choosing a direction, and setting equal or angle-based spacing around 360 degree for multiple instances.

discover varying geometry patterning in SolidWorks to pattern a boss extrusion with a pattern on a plane, so instances terminate at surface rather than duplicating via the geometry pattern option.

Learn to mirror and pattern bodies in SolidWorks, including selecting bodies, choosing mirror planes, and applying a linear pattern to bolts to create symmetric assemblies.

Learn to apply linear pattern and mirror in SolidWorks to create symmetric features by using up to reference, multiple instances, and offset distances, achieving centered symmetry around the origin.

Learn to use sketch driven pattern in SolidWorks to pattern a body via a sketch, enabling linear patterns with centroid or selected point options for compact PCB cases.

Learn plastic power design for a simple electronic device using FDM 3D printing, focusing on two halves, PCB, battery, display, screws, brass inserts, and exploded views.

Explore design intent, the principle that assemblies adapt to dimension changes while components retain positions, enabling robust, reusable SolidWorks models for plastic and molded parts.

Import the display first, float it, and use mates to align it with the assembly front, right, and top planes; then place and center the PCB and battery.

design a plastic enclosure around the display, PCB, and battery using a top-down assembly in SolidWorks; create a boundary box, extrude, fillet, shell, and offset geometry by 0.2 mm.

Demonstrates building a display mount in a plastic part: sketching holes, creating M2 brass inserts, extruding and cutting features, refining fillets, and mirroring the design for assembly accuracy.

Learn to add M2 fasteners in a SolidWorks assembly, size and constrain flathead screws, and fix a PCB and battery using back parts and mounting holes.

Model the bottom plastic part of an enclosure in SolidWorks by fitting a PCB and battery, adding USB holes, and applying shell and fillets to optimize thickness.

Learn how to reposition a PCB in the bottom plastic, create clearance from the USB port, and add M2 insert holes and fasteners with mates in SolidWorks.

Master designing a lip to align top and bottom parts in a SolidWorks assembly for easier assembly, including PCB fasteners, managing mates, and applying extrude boss and cut operations.

Learn to strengthen a 3d printed lip by adding 1.5 mm fillets, creating top and bottom inserts for M3 screws, mirroring features, and assembling halves with concentric and coincident mates.

Demonstrates joining an assembly in SolidWorks by selecting M3 socket head screws, creating holes and clearance, and validating fit with extrude cuts and offsets.

Design and integrate a plastic 3d printed button in SolidWorks, creating an elliptical button with flange, drilling a 3 mm hole, and verifying clearance and travel within the enclosure.

Apply adaptive assembly by keeping parts editable so PCB changes don’t break the design, and enlarge the button by adjusting the top part and mates for clearance while preserving tolerances.

Assess and resolve assembly clearance issues in a SolidWorks model by sectioning the body, identifying USB port interference, and applying extrude-cut clearances. Note implications for 3d printing versus mold design.

Add ventilating holes for air flow to cool a handheld PCB using SolidWorks features like split face, extrude cut, and fill pattern, with a 3D-printed friendly design.

Design enclosure to meet the client's requirements, focusing on ~100 W TDP from MOSFETs, using aluminum plates top and bottom with a plastic 3D-printed insert and suppressing parts during modeling.

Import the PCB into an assembly, save as an assembly file rather than a part file, and create three perpendicular planes at the PCB center to ease future mates.

Build a top heat sink plate in SolidWorks around a PCB and MOSFET, using convert entities, extrude, linear pattern, and hole wizard to form fins and countersunk screw holes.

Design a plastic 3d printed part in SolidWorks by creating a top plate with holes and fins, applying extrude and extrude-cut features for screw clearance and m3 inserts.

Advance the assembly by refining the plastic part, installing inserts, applying chamfers and fillets, and validating minimum distances while sketching, extruding, trimming, and mirroring for 3d printed parts.

Design the bottom heatsink within the assembly, adding a 2 mm extrusion, countersunk M3 holes, and fins. Pattern the fins and plan screw placement with the plastic part.

Install a sheet inside the top face by sketching flush edges and extruding a 2.3 mm cut; create clearance with 0.2 mm offset and 0.3 mm tolerance for screw holes.

Learn how to import and integrate CAD models from Grabcad into a SolidWorks assembly, add M3 inserts, and install a 16 mm USB-C panel port, with troubleshooting for non-editable imports.

Prepare a SolidWorks model for thermal simulation by assigning 300 W heat sources to MOSFETs on an aluminum heatsink and a plastic part, then save a dedicated simulation copy.

Perform a SolidWorks thermal simulation to predict surface temperatures under 300 W, comparing natural and forced convection with and without fans to meet a 60 C limit.

Explore designing four 40x40x15 mm fans for forced convection cooling of a heatsink and MOSFETs, optimizing size, placement, and symmetry along the heatsink fins in a SolidWorks assembly.

Learn to complete a SolidWorks assembly by adding mechanical fasteners and fan grills, importing STEP files, and using mates, linear patterns, and BOM considerations for PCB assemblies.