Modeling a Cabinet with SOLIDWORKS
1h 54mAdvanced2015-08-14
Authors
Leon van den Heever
Certified 3D Instructor, Artist
Course details
Improve your top-down or in-context assembly design skills using a "skeleton modeling" strategy and SOLIDWORKS. In this course, Leon van den Heever shows how to create a model of a cabinet that automatically resizes its components based on the outer skeletal structure. This start-to-finish project will help you practice your assembly design skills and master the impressive modeling tools in SOLIDWORKS.
Learning objectives
Setting up the model and adding components
Creating the main structure of the cabinet
Modeling the door
Building the drawer
Testing the model
Learning objectives
Setting up the model and adding components
Creating the main structure of the cabinet
Modeling the door
Building the drawer
Testing the model
Skills covered
SOLIDWORKSDassaultManufacturingProduct and Industrial DesignProjectProduct and Manufacturing
Concepts
Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Before we begin
Establishing Our Workflow
- Skeleton modeling strategy
- Initial setup and adding components
- Creating reference planes for the bottom of the cabinet
- Blocking out the bottom
- Making the bottom profile sweep cuts
- Making the bottom front profile cut
The Main Structure
- Sides
- Front frame
- Front frame decor
- Braces and supports
- Shelf
- Top
- Shelf adjustment holes
Door and Drawer
- Modeling the door
- Drawer frame - Front and back
- Drawer frame - Sides
- Drawer front
- Drawer bottom
Finalizing and Testing
- Back cover
- A few fixes and testing