SolidWorks Tutorials

Technical SolidWorks
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Hey CD!

I am planning on doing tutorials for SolidWorks during the summer to train my team members and to help train other teams interested in using CAD.

I have a few ideas as to what to do in some of the tutorials but is there anything else some people would want?

My ideas right now:

  • Sketch’s (defining sketches and using tools to make you quicker)
  • Extrusions (Using the different type of extrusions to the Fullest)
  • Assemblies (mating, and other review tools)
  • Sheet Metal Tool

Also is there anybody who thinks they would be watching these tutorials to learn more?

Thanks :smiley:

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ever thought of going onto youtube and finding some good vids on this stuff on there? there are actually alot of good ones, even some by solidworks themselves.

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I was thinking of doing these ones related to FIRST itself. Like building chassis’s or something else.

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ok. That is a bit different then what your first post communicated.

Since this is primarily for your team, I would recommend you find what your team has problems doing and start there. As far as things that might help them: I have seen that making a detailed light bulb and making a detailed car do wonders to teach people tricks that might be useful.

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My team Members are starting from scratch. I basically want to teach them solidworks this year because next yer is my last year on the team. We will be working sid by side for next season, so i need to get them designing.

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ok, I would recommend you start with what is already designed and made as far as tutorials if you must do videos. I would also recomend you teach the WITH hotkeys, mouse gestures, exc.

also, at least with my team, It is faster and more efficient to teach them by doing it live.

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We have posted a series of frc tutorials at www.solidworks.com/robotics for FRC.

We also have a new www.facebook.com/solidworkseducation page. There area tips multiple times a week.

Good luck to your team members. The summer is a great time to strengthen SolidWorks skills.

Marie

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I would love a tutorial on sheet metal chassis design.

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Do you start with an frame like so

and then you are looking to place a sheetmetal floor to mount other subsystmes to?

Or are you looking for your frame to be sheetmetal?

Sheet metal can be use structurally - but you have to know how much weight will be distributed.

My intern, Ian, created a great sheet metal model of a joist http://blogs.solidworks.com/teacher/2012/05/sheet-metal-joist-hanger.html
You can download the file and take a look at how the part was constructed.

Right-click the gray area of the SolidWorks Main menu to bring up the Sheet Metal toolbar. You have to use Sheet Metal features - not Solid features. Give me some ideas in your design direction. Marie

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I will take a look at the FRC Tutorials later to get an idea of what i could do.

For the sheet-metal design it is a full frame design. I have designed over 10 different chassis in solidworks, most of them sheet-metal.