SOLIDWORKS: Advanced Sketching
1h 22mBeginner2018-12-11
Authors
David Antanavige
Mechanical Engineer and CAD Educator
Course details
Sketching is the foundation for every 3D model in SOLIDWORKS. Understanding the complete suite of sketching tools will improve your designs and productivity. In this course, instructor David Antanavige covers all the advanced features and functions related to sketches in SOLIDWORKS. Review the basic sketch entities, from planes to belt lines, and then learn how to use the core sketching tools, including SketchXpert and Mirror. Find out how to group sketch entities in blocks and reuse those blocks in drawings, create and control splines with the advanced spline tools, and view and edit relations. David then dives into 3D sketching and sketching within drawings, before closing with some techniques for splitting, projecting, and compositing curves in SOLIDWORKS.
Learning objectives
Sketch entities
Sketch tools
Making and editing blocks
Advanced spline tools
Relations and references
3D sketching
Sketching in drawings
Curves
Learning objectives
Sketch entities
Sketch tools
Making and editing blocks
Advanced spline tools
Relations and references
3D sketching
Sketching in drawings
Curves
Skills covered
SOLIDWORKSDassaultManufacturingProduct and Industrial DesignProduct and ManufacturingDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Advanced sketching in SOLIDWORKS
1. Sketch Entities
- 02 - Basic sketch entities review
- 03 - Customizing the S key for sketching
- 04 - Plane
- 05 - Route Line
- 06 - Belt Chain
- 07 - Derived sketch
- 08 - Sketch from a drawing
2. Sketch Tools
- 09 - Create a sketch from Selections
- 10 - Repair Sketch
- 11 - SketchXpert
- 12 - Align
- 13 - Modify
- 14 - Close Sketch to Model
- 15 - Check Sketch for features
- 16 - Sketch Picture
- 17 - Area hatch fill
- 18 - Mirror
3. Blocks
- 19 - Traditional blocks and libraries
- 20 - Make and edit blocks
- 21 - Inserting blocks
- 22 - Save a block
- 23 - Explode blocks
4. Advanced Spline Tools
- 24 - Style spline
- 25 - Spline on a surface
- 26 - Equation Driven Curve
5. Relations
- 27 - Relations
- 28 - References
6. 3D Sketching
- 29 - 3D sketching
- 30 - Rapid sketch
- 31 - Editing in 3D
7. Sketching in Drawings
- 32 - Sketching in Views vs. Sheets
- 33 - Formatting entity properties
8. Curves
- 34 - Split Line
- 35 - Projected
- 36 - Composite
- 37 - Helix Spiral
Conclusion
- 38 - Next steps