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Learn SOLIDWORKS 2020

Author Tayseer Almattar
Release Date: 2019/12/01
ISBN: 9781789804102
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Book Description

Explore a practical and example-driven approach to understanding SOLIDWORKS 2020 and achieving CSWA and CSWP certification

Key Features

  • Gain comprehensive insights into the core aspects of mechanical part modeling
  • Get up to speed with generating assembly designs with both standard and advanced mates
  • Focus on design practices for both 2D as well as 3D modeling and prepare to achieve CWSP and CWSA certification

Book Description

SOLIDWORKS is the leading choice for 3D engineering and product design applications across industries such as aviation, automobiles, and consumer product design.

This book takes a practical approach to getting you up and running with SOLIDWORKS 2020. You'll start with the basics, exploring the software interface and working with drawing files. The book then guides you through topics such as sketching, building complex 3D models, generating dynamic and static assemblies, and generating 2D engineering drawings to equip you for mechanical design projects. You'll also do practical exercises to get hands-on with creating sketches, 3D part models, assemblies, and drawings. To reinforce your understanding of SOLIDWORKS, the book is supplemented by downloadable files that will help you follow up with the concepts and exercises found in the book.

By the end of this book, you'll have gained the skills you need to create professional 3D mechanical models using SOLIDWORKS, and you'll be able to prepare effectively for the Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate (CSWA) and Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional (CSWP) exams.

What you will learn

  • Understand the fundamentals of SOLIDWORKS and parametric modeling
  • Create professional 2D sketches as bases for 3D models using simple and advanced modeling techniques
  • Use SOLIDWORKS drawing tools to generate standard engineering drawings
  • Evaluate mass properties and materials for designing parts and assemblies
  • Understand the objectives and the formats of the CSWA and CSWP exams
  • Discover expert tips and tricks to generate different part and assembly configurations for your mechanical designs

Who this book is for

This book is for aspiring engineers, designers, drafting technicians, or anyone looking to get started with the latest version of SOLIDWORKS. Anyone interested in becoming a Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate (CSWA) or Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional (CSWP) will also find this book useful.

Table of Contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright and Credits
    1. Learn SOLIDWORKS 2020
  3. Dedication
  4. About Packt
    1. Why subscribe?
  5. Contributors
    1. About the author
    2. About the reviewer
    3. Packt is searching for authors like you
  6. Preface
    1. Who this book is for
    2. What this book covers
    3. To get the most out of this book
      1. Download the example code files
      2. Download the color images
      3. Code in Action
      4. Conventions used
    4. Get in touch
      1. Reviews
  7. Introduction to SOLIDWORKS
    1. Introducing SOLIDWORKS
      1. SOLIDWORKS applications
      2. Core mechanical design
    2. Understanding parametric modeling
    3. Exploring SOLIDWORKS certifications
      1. Associate certifications
      2. Professional certifications
      3. Professional advanced certifications
      4. Expert certification
    4. Summary
    5. Questions
    6. Further reading
  8. Interface and Navigation
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Starting a new part, assembly, or drawing file
      1. What are parts, assemblies, and drawings?
      2. Opening a part, assembly, or drawing file
    3. The main components of the SOLIDWORKS interface
      1. The command bar
      2. The design tree
      3. The canvas
      4. The Task Pane
    4. The document's measurement system
      1. The different measurement systems
      2. Adjusting the document's measurement system
    5. Summary
    6. Questions
  9. SOLIDWORKS 2D Sketching Basics
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Introducing SOLIDWORKS sketching
      1. The position of SOLIDWORKS sketches
      2. Simple sketches versus complex sketches
      3. Sketch planes
    3. Getting started with SOLIDWORKS sketching
      1. Getting into the sketching mode
      2. Defining sketches
      3. Geometrical relations
    4. Sketching lines, rectangles, circles, arcs, and ellipses
      1. The origin
      2. Sketching lines
      3. Sketching rectangles and squares
      4. Sketching circles and arcs
      5. Sketching ellipses and using construction lines
      6. Fillets and chamfers
    5. Under defined, fully defined, and over defined sketches
      1. Under defined sketches
      2. Fully defined sketches
      3. Over defined sketches
    6. Summary
    7. Questions
  10. Special Sketching Commands
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Mirroring and offsetting sketches
      1. Mirroring a sketch 
        1. Defining
      2. Offsetting a sketch 
        1. Deleting an offset
        2. Customization options
    3. Creating sketch patterns
      1. Defining patterns 
      2. Linear sketch patterns
      3. Circular sketch patterns
    4. Trimming in SOLIDWORKS sketching
      1. Understanding trimming 
      2. Using power trimming
    5. Summary
    6. Questions
  11. Basic Primary One-Sketch Features
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Understanding features in SOLIDWORKS
      1. Understanding SOLIDWORKS features and their role in 3D modeling
      2. Simple models versus complex models 
      3. Sketch planes for features
    3. Understanding and applying extruded boss and cut
      1. What are extruded boss and extruded cut? 
      2. Applying extruded boss
      3. Applying extruded cut and building on existing features
      4. Modifying and deleting extruded boss and extruded cut
        1. Editing a feature – changing the height of the cylinder from 50 mm to 100 mm
        2. Deleting a feature – removing the extruded cut feature that goes through the cylinder 
    4. Understanding and applying fillets and chamfers
      1. Understanding fillets and chamfers
      2. Applying fillets
      3. Applying chamfers
      4. Modifying fillets and chamfers
    5. Understanding and applying revolved boss and cut
      1. What are revolved boss and cut?
      2. Applying revolved boss
      3. Applying revolved cut
      4. Modifying revolved boss and revolved cut
    6. Summary
    7. Questions
  12. Basic Secondary Multi-Sketch Features
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Reference geometries – additional planes
      1. Understanding planes, reference geometries, and why we need them
      2. Defining planes in geometry 
      3. Defining a new plane in SOLIDWORKS
    3. Understanding and applying swept boss and swept cut
      1. What are swept boss and swept cut?
      2. Applying swept boss
        1. Swept boss feature options
      3. Applying swept cut
      4. Modifying swept boss and swept cut
    4. Understanding and applying lofted boss and lofted cut
      1. What are lofted boss and lofted cut?
      2. Applying lofted boss 
        1. Lofted boss feature options
      3. Applying lofted cut
      4. Modifying lofted boss and cut
      5. Guide curves 
    5. Summary
    6. Questions
  13. Materials and Mass Properties
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Reference geometries – defining a new coordinate system
      1. What is a reference coordinate system and why are new ones needed?
      2. How to create a new coordinate system
    3. Assigning materials and evaluating and overriding mass properties
      1. Assigning materials to parts
      2. Viewing the mass properties of parts
        1. Viewing mass properties
        2. Finding the mass of the model in grams
        3. Finding the center of mass in relation to the origin in millimeters
        4. Finding the center of mass in relation to the new coordinate system in millimeters
        5. Finding the mass of the model in pounds
      3. Overriding mass properties 
    4. Summary
    5. Questions
  14. Standard Assembly Mates
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Opening assemblies and adding parts
      1. Defining SOLIDWORKS assemblies
      2. Starting a SOLIDWORKS assembly file and adding parts to it
        1. Starting an assembly file
        2. Adding parts to the assembly file
      3. Understanding mates
    3. Understanding and applying non-value-oriented standard mates 
      1. Defining the non-value-oriented standard mates
      2. Applying the coincident and perpendicular mates
        1. Applying the coincident mate
        2. Applying the perpendicular mate
      3. Applying the parallel, tangent, concentric, and lock mates
        1. Applying the parallel mate
        2. Applying the tangent mate
        3. Applying the concentric mate
        4. Applying the lock mate
      4. Under defining, fully defining, and over defining an assembly 
        1. Finding the definition statuses of the parts 
        2. Which assembly definition status is better? 
      5. Viewing and adjusting active mates
        1. Modifying existing mates
    4. Understanding and applying value-driven standard mates 
      1. Defining value-driven standard mates
      2. Applying the distance and angle mates
        1. Applying the distance mate
        2. Applying the angle mate
    5. Utilizing materials and mass properties for assemblies 
      1. Setting a new coordinate system for an assembly
      2. Material edits in assemblies
        1. Assigning materials to parts in the assembly environment
      3. Evaluating mass properties for assemblies
    6. Summary
    7. Questions
  15. Introduction to Engineering Drawing
    1. Understanding engineering drawings
    2. Interpreting engineering drawings
      1. Interpreting lines
      2. Interpreting views
        1. Orthogonal views
        2. Auxiliary view
        3. Section views
        4. Detail views
        5. Break-out section views
        6. Crop views
      3. Axonometric projections
    3. Summary
    4. Questions
  16. Basic SOLIDWORKS Drawing Layout and Annotations
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Opening a SOLIDWORKS drawing file
    3. Generating orthographic and isometric views
      1. Selecting a model to plot
      2. Generating orthographic and isometric views
        1. Parent and child views
        2. Adding views via the View Palette
        3. Deleting views 
      3. Adjusting the drawing scale and the display
        1. Adjusting the scale of our drawing
          1. Changing the drawing scale for the front parent view
          2. Changing the drawing scale of the isometric child view 
          3. Understanding scale ratios
        2.  Different display types
    4. Communicating dimensions and design
      1. Using the smart dimension
      2. The centerlines, notes, and hole callout annotations
        1. Centerlines
        2. Notes 
        3. Hole callout
    5. Utilizing the drawing sheet's information block
      1. Editing the information block
      2. Adding new information to the information block 
    6. Exporting the drawing as a PDF or image
      1. Exporting a drawing as a PDF file 
      2. Exporting the drawing as an image 
    7. Summary
    8. Questions
  17. Bills of Materials
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Understanding BOMs
      1. Understanding a BOM
    3. Generating a standard BOM
      1. Inserting an assembly into a drawing sheet 
      2. Creating a standard BOM
    4. Adjusting information in the BOMs
      1. Adjusting listed information in the BOM
        1. Changing a title in the BOM
        2. Changing a column category 
      2. Sorting information in our BOMs 
      3. Adding new columns
    5. Utilizing equations with BOMs
      1. What are equations in SOLIDWORKS drawings? 
        1. Functions 
        2. Mathematical operations
      2. Inputting equations in a table
        1. Applying a mathematical operation 
        2. Applying an equation function
    6. Utilizing parts callouts 
    7. Summary
    8. Questions
  18. Advanced SOLIDWORKS Mechanical Core Features
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Understanding and applying the draft feature
      1. What are drafts? 
      2. Applying drafts
    3. Understanding and applying the shell feature
      1. What is a shell? 
      2. Applying a shell
        1. Multi-thickness settings
    4. Understanding and utilizing the Hole Wizard
      1. What is the Hole Wizard and why use it? 
        1. Identifying a hole in SOLIDWORKS 
      2. Utilizing the Hole Wizard
    5. Understanding and applying features mirroring
      1. What is mirroring for features? 
      2. Utilizing the Mirror command to mirror features
    6. Understanding and applying the rib feature
      1. Understanding ribs
      2. Applying the Rib command
    7. Understanding and utilizing multi-body parts 
      1. Defining multi-body parts and their advantages
      2. Generating and dealing with a multi-body part
        1. Feature scope applications
        2. Separating different bodies into different parts
    8. Summary
    9. Questions
  19. Equations, Configurations, and Design Tables
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Understanding and applying equations in parts
      1. Understanding equations
      2. Applying equations in parts
        1. Modifying dimensions with equations 
          1. Equations within the equations manager
          2. Design intent with equations
    3. Understanding and utilizing configurations 
      1. What are configurations?
      2. Applying configurations
    4. Understanding and utilizing design tables 
      1. What are design tables?
      2. Setting up a design table
        1. Editing a design table
          1. Editing directly from the design table
          2. Editing the design table by modifying the model 
    5. Summary
    6. Questions
  20. SOLIDWORKS Assemblies and Advanced Mates
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Understanding and using the profile center mate
      1. Defining the profile center advanced mate
      2. Applying the profile center mate
    3. Understanding and using the width and symmetric mates
      1. Defining the width advanced mate
      2. Applying the width advanced mate 
      3. Defining the symmetric advanced mate
      4. Applying the symmetric advanced mate
    4. Understanding and using the distance range and angle range mates
      1. Defining the distance range and angle range
      2. Applying the distance range mate 
      3. Applying the angle range mate
    5. Understanding and using the path mate and linear/linear coupler mates
      1. Defining the path mate
      2. Applying the path mate 
      3. Defining the linear/linear coupler
      4. Applying the linear/linear coupler
        1. Fine-tuning the linear/linear coupler mate
    6. Summary
    7. Questions
  21. Advanced SOLIDWORKS Assemblies Competencies
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Understanding and utilizing the Interference and Collision Detection tools
      1. Interference Detection
        1. Interferences in practice 
      2. Collision Detection
    3. Understanding and applying assembly features
      1. Understanding assembly features
      2. Applying assembly features
    4. Understanding and utilizing configurations and design tables for assemblies
      1. Using manual configurations
      2. Design tables 
    5. Summary
    6. Questions
  22. Assessments
    1. Answers to questions
      1. Chapter 1 – Introduction to SOLIDWORKS
      2. Chapter 2 – Interface and Navigation
      3. Chapter 3 – SOLIDWORKS 2D Sketching Basics
      4. Chapter 4 – Special Sketching Commands
      5. Chapter 5 – Basic Primary One-Sketch Features
      6. Chapter 6 – Basic Secondary Multi-Sketch Features
      7. Chapter 7 – Materials and Mass Properties
      8. Chapter 8 – Standard Assembly Mates
      9. Chapter 9 – Introduction to Engineering Drawing
      10. Chapter 10 – Basic SOLIDWORKS Drawing Layout and Annotations
      11. Chapter 11 – Bills of Materials
      12. Chapter 12 – Advanced SOLIDWORKS Mechanical Core Features
      13. Chapter 13 – Equations, Configurations, and Design Tables
      14. Chapter 14 – SOLIDWORKS Assemblies and Advanced Mates
      15. Chapter 15 – Advanced SOLIDWORKS Assemblies Competencies
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