SOLIDWORKS: Surfacing
1h 25mIntermediate2015-04-21
Authors
Gabriel Corbett
Product Designer, Instructor, and Speaker
Course details
Get up to speed with the surfacing tools within SOLIDWORKS. Gabriel Corbett will teach you the key tools to be proficient with the surfacing package. First, learn how to create basic extruded, revolved, ruled, and offset surfaces. Then dive deeper into modifying surfaces with the Extend Surface, Cut Surface, and Knit Surface tools. Along the way, Gabriel introduces real-world examples that show how surfacing can improve your designs and allow you to create shapes that would otherwise be impossible to build. The course wraps up with some tips for fixing common problems with fillets and solids and manipulating faces.
Learning objectives
Defining planes for surface creation
Creating splines and 3D curves
Making revolved surfaces
Building boundary and lofted surfaces
Offsetting a surface
Trimming and untrimming surfaces
Adding fillets
Fixing corners
Deleting, moving, and replacing faces
Learning objectives
Defining planes for surface creation
Creating splines and 3D curves
Making revolved surfaces
Building boundary and lofted surfaces
Offsetting a surface
Trimming and untrimming surfaces
Adding fillets
Fixing corners
Deleting, moving, and replacing faces
Skills covered
SOLIDWORKSDassaultManufacturingProduct and Industrial Design3D ModelingVisualization and Real-TimeAECProduct and ManufacturingAnimation and IllustrationDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
- 02 - Using the exercise files
1. Sketching for Surfaces
- 03 - Planes for surfaces
- 04 - Spline creation
- 05 - 3D curve creation
2. Surface Creation Tools
- 06 - Working with the Extruded Surface tool
- 07 - Making revolved surfaces
- 08 - The Swept Surface tool
- 09 - Building a lofted surface
- 10 - Boundary surface creation
- 11 - Filled Surface tool
- 12 - Making a planar surface
- 13 - Working with the Freeform surface command
- 14 - How to offset a surface
- 15 - Creation of a ruled surface
3. Surface Modifiers
- 16 - Extending surfaces
- 17 - Trimming surfaces
- 18 - Untrimming surfaces
- 19 - Using the Knit Surface tool
- 20 - Adding in fillets
- 21 - Thickening surfaces
4. Using Surfaces with Solids
- 22 - Fixing corners
- 23 - Fillet problems
- 24 - Using the Up to Surface command
- 25 - Cut with surface
- 26 - Making a thickened cut
5. Direct Editing Tools
- 27 - How to delete a face
- 28 - Moving faces
- 29 - Replace Face command
Conclusion
- 30 - Goodbye