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SOLIDWORKS: Tips & Tricks

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Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
Tips and Tricks
  • Switching sketch planes
  • Using Pack and Go to rename files
  • Quick switching between lines and arcs
  • Cutting and pasting custom properties
  • Custom property links
  • Plane mates
  • Create a face fillet using hold lines
  • Use construction geometry to simplify sketches
  • Convert and offset entities
  • Dissolve sketch text tool
  • Create a flat pattern
  • Use the Curve Driven Pattern tool
  • Use the Combine command
  • Working with the Split command
  • Use the Fill Pattern command
  • Looking at solid sweeps
  • Looking at interference detection
  • Checking out virtual sharps
  • Using and dimensioning arcs and curves
  • Looking at the path length dimension
  • Customizing the Command Manager
  • Looking at normal cuts
  • Creating a fishmouth with two connection points
  • Understanding mouse gestures
  • Renaming files
  • Creating build materials from SOLIDWORKS Explorer
  • Checking out Treehouse
  • Exporting out of Treehouse
  • Pipe coping with surface flatten
  • Mouse gesture tips
  • SOLIDWORKS Explorer: Renaming files
  • SOLIDWORKS Bill of Materials (BOM)
  • Treehouse
  • Selection set
  • Exclude from BOM
  • Wrap feature
  • Split line tricks
  • Creating "custom" custom property names
  • Link to thickness
  • FeatureManager search
  • Selection tricks
  • Using the Tab key to hide and show
  • Selection option rotation using the A key
  • Enter key for Repeat Last Command
  • Power trim tricks
  • Recover the popup bar
  • Quick reference planes
  • Command search
  • Drag and drop from search
  • Export to DXF/DWG 1:1
  • Breadcrumb tricks
  • Freehand sketching in Sketch Ink
  • Auto Sketch Entities for Sketch Ink
  • Sketch Ink Ruler
  • Sketch Ink Protractor
  • Touch with Sketch Ink
  • Freehand markup
  • Bounding Box in assemblies
  • eDrawings webpage creation
  • Treehouse custom properties
  • Defeature Silhouette
  • Exploded View improvements
  • External References for SOLIDWORKS 2019
  • Save an assembly as a part
  • Interference detection for multibody parts
  • 3D textures
  • SOLIDWORKS open times
  • Arc length
  • Reference length
  • Zoom to fit tricks
  • Create a plane on the end of line
  • Trim tool enhancements
  • Weldment corners
  • Smart patterns
  • Sensors
  • Shell only one section
  • Square spring
  • Using equal curvature
  • Fun with magnetic mates
  • Direct editing: Delete Hole
  • Direct editing: Move Face tricks
  • Sketching: Disable auto relations
  • Using the reload command
  • Tricks for saving parts for 3D printing
  • Using the Biad to sketch
  • Fun with intersections
  • Previous Selection
  • Select Other
  • Change a face from solid to transparent
  • Using files from other software packages
  • Select Tangency
  • Selection Filters: F5 and F6
  • Save SOLIDWORKS settings
  • Flat Tree View
  • Collapse a tree
  • Folders in the tree
  • Custom views
  • Custom views in drawings
  • Rotate about an entity
  • Normal To
  • Zoom to Selection
  • Rotate about the scene floor
  • Reference triad
  • Quickly add sketch relationships
  • Lasso Selection
  • Zoom to Selection
  • Save As with References
  • Viewing a part in wireframe
  • Close sketch to model
  • SketchXpert
  • Invert Selection
  • Single command per pick
  • Derived Sketch
  • Pierce vs. coincident
  • Reset Dragging
  • Feature Freeze
  • Importing a mesh body
  • Converting to a mesh body
  • Opening ScanTo3D mesh files
  • Mesh Prep Wizard
  • ScanTo3D and Curve Wizard
  • Decimate Mesh Body
  • Segment Imported Mesh Body tool
  • ScanTo3D: Mesh Edit
  • Surface From Mesh tool
  • ScanTo3D: Surface Wizard
  • Using MeshLab
  • Simplifying a huge mesh in MeshLab
  • 3D textures
  • Creating multiple planes at once
  • Using surface intersections for complex modeling
  • Add hardware to assemblies
  • Sketch-driven component patterns
  • View multiple drawing sheets at the same time
  • Auto-add item quantity to balloons
  • Create leaders to point to multiple items
  • Move a view from one sheet to the next
  • Fix a description that's too long
  • Mate parts with Lock Rotation
  • Search for options within SOLIDWORKS
  • Display objects inside assemblies in different ways
  • Specify grain direction
  • Create and use reference blocks
  • Geometry without in-context references
  • Create reference lines for sketches
  • Path link dimension
  • Use a block as a reference for a part
  • Reformat a bill of materials list
  • Export a bill of materials list
  • Create a reference block in an assembly
  • Use properties of drawing notes
  • Work with boundary surfaces
  • Use boundary surface control points
  • How to use the Check tool

Taught by

Gabriel Corbett

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