I've found that the best way to teach (and the best way I learned it) was through workshops because there are many things that can go wrong when you're not sure what various options do.
We currently hold 2h sessions that cover the basics of parts, assemblies, and drawings including:
- Creating parts, assemblies, drawings
- Sketching (on a plane, on a surface)
- Dimensioning in parts
- Extrude (blind, midplane)
- Thin feature
- Extrude cut
- Reference geometry
- Mirror
- Inserting parts into assemblies
- Basic mates (coincident, concentric, etc.)
- Dimensioning in drawings (smart dimension, ordinate dimension, hole callout)
- Part naming
- PDM usage
I have some of this material online (youtube and a couple of google docs), and if you're interested, let me know and I'll clean it up a bit and share it.
For online material:
1114 has a series of youtube videos where the cover the basics of solidworks, from the layout of solidworks to designing a drivetrain. The playlist can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...JfAHsCVbe3fpXG or on their youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/simbotics
610 has a design tutorial that covers the basics of CAD/design and focuses on their 2013 drivetrain:
http://team610.com/portfolio_page/design-tutorials/
973 has a series of youtube videos that focuses more on the design applications of solidworks:
https://www.youtube.com/user/973ramp
These are other youtube channels that have solidworks tutorials (not FRC-related). I've found them useful for specific things I want to learn, but haven't tried to use them for an overall syllabus.
SolidWorks Tutorial (
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtw...ysZLh1rrPzwFw), SolidWorks Zen (
https://www.youtube.com/user/solidworksviewer), Hawk Ridge Systems (
https://www.youtube.com/user/hawkridgesystems), and Javelin Technologies (
https://www.youtube.com/user/JavelilnTechnologies)