Watering Can

Surfacing Tutorial: Watering Can

by Dezignstuff

I haven’t done much technical how-to yet on this blog, so I guess it’s time for a surfacing tutorial. Folks ask for this sort of stuff, and there is precious little on the web that actually has step by step instructions for this sort of modeling.

So  to a 14 page PDF tutorial with sketch picture images and a final part to use as reference.

I hope you get some usefulness out of this. Please comment back here if you find problems with the text or procedure.

Below is shown a photograph of an actual product as well as a screen shot from the SolidWorks window. The tutorial works best with SolidWorks 2007 due to some splines improvements, but will also work with previous versions although I haven’t tried that. The sample part is SW07.

this is the link  wateringcantutorial

Weldment Profiles

Working with Weldment Profiles

by Bill Hall

SolidWorks comes with a large number of Weldment Profiles that can be used. They are, however, compressed in the installation and must be extracted. Below are instructions on how to do that.

In the Design Library under “SolidWorks Content,” go to the folder “Weldments.”

You can hit “Ctrl” and click on any one of these standards and it will ask you where you’d like to download the Zip file. Extract the zip file….i.e., “Ansi Inch” into the “Weldment Profiles” folder. Then many more profiles become available. You can now do this to however many standards you want.

Tutorial for Intermedia Level

SolidWorks Tutorial01 Axis

Technical/Vocational Instruction

Draw A Pump Impeller

solidworks tutorials for technicalvocational

Under the direction of instructor Jack van den Broek , Vakcollege Dr. Knippenberg, Netherlands and SolidWorks Benelux, these 12 tutorials are excellent for technical-vocational instruction.  All in easy to read step-by-step instructions and every part can be machined, folded or formed.  I met Jack again at SolidWorks World this year and he presented me with additional tutorials to share with his fellow educators.  Not matter what the age, every student can learn SolidWorks.  Exercises incorporate Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) topics.  With practice students can also prepare for their Certified SolidWorks Associate (CSWA)  exam.  Marie

Step by Step Instruction:  SolidWorks_Tutorials_Technology

Video Overview: Download SolidWorks Tutorials

Marie Planchard

SolidWorks Tutorial01 Axis for Engineering and Technical Instruction

Due to file size, a teacher asked me to posting each one of the12 Dutch tutorials seperately.  These Vocational Technical Tutorials created Jack van den Broek , Vakcollege Dr. Knippenberg, Netherlands and SolidWorks Benelux provide create instruction on SolidWorks techniques for creating parts, assemblies and drawings.  All parts can be machined or formed.  The first tutorial creates introduces students to the SolidWorks User Interface and creates a part with different diameters. Marie

Download SolidWorks_Tutorial01_Axis_English_08_LR

by Marie Planchard

How To Loft a Surface To a Point in SolidWorks

by Josh Mings

A horn, a tentacle. Who knows what you may need to model these days. Why just the other day I had to model the pinnacle of perfection, and let me tell you, it had the sharpest point within a five and a half mile radius.

Whatever it is, if it needs to come to a sharp point, you’re in luck. SolidWorks can do that and it’s really, super easy. A profile, a path, a point. Three steps and you have a loft that traverses to the finite limits of your sanity and imagination. Sounds cool huh. Here’s the process.