Learning SOLIDWORKS Composer

1h 46mBeginner2018-01-31

Authors

Justin Flett

Consultant, Engineer, Professor, Product Development Specialist

Course details

Get started with SOLIDWORKS Composer, and discover how to leverage this software to generate technical documentation, publications, and animations. Develop fundamental SOLIDWORKS Composer skills by learning a variety of essential topics. Learn about generating images and animations of your products for technical documentation and publications, as well as technical marketing purposes. Explore how to set up cameras and views, add lines and textures, create simple animations, and output video and images.

Learning objectives
Composer terminology
Creating your first view and image output
Changing actor and background properties
Using the transform tools
Inserting explode lines
Adding textures
Lighting
Working with a Bill of Materials (BOM

Skills covered

SOLIDWORKSDassaultManufacturingProduct and Industrial DesignProduct and ManufacturingDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

Introduction

Welcome
What you should know
Using the exercise files

Getting Started

User interface
Composer terminology
Navigation tools
Camera alignment and rendering
Creating your first view
Creating your first image output

Detailed Images

Changing actor properties
Changing background properties
Updating an existing view
Using the Digger tool

Explode Images

Using the transform tools
Inserting explode lines
Inserting labels
Using magnetic lines
Importing files
Alignment tools
Additional collaborative actors
Generating vector image outputs

Marketing Images

Camera views
Adding textures
Ground textures
Lighting

Working with Bill of Materials

Manual method
Automated method
Customizing BOM

Introduction to Simple Animations

Introduction to animation mode
Generating a simple explode animation
Video output

Conclusion

Next steps