SOLIDWORKS: Tips & Tricks

6h 50mIntermediate2021-07-14

Authors

Gabriel Corbett

Product Designer, Instructor, and Speaker

Course details

Would you like to work faster and more efficiently with SOLIDWORKS? There is a ton of knowledge in the SOLIDWORKS community that you'll never learn from the documentation. Gabriel Corbett has spent years studying the program, attending conferences, teaching classes, and talking to fellow experts. In this weekly series, he shares his insights with you. These tips and tricks cover many different facets of the program, from renaming files, customizing properties, to sketching and constructing difficult geometry, replacing parts, and drawing links. Each episode is just 2–10 minutes—ensuring maximum returns in a minimum amount of time.

Skills covered

SOLIDWORKSDassaultManufacturingSerial (Weekly)Product and Industrial DesignProduct and Manufacturing

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome

Tips and Tricks

02 - Quick switching between lines and arcs
03 - Switching sketch planes
04 - Using Pack and Go to rename files
05 - Cutting and pasting custom properties
06 - Custom property links
07 - Plane mates
08 - Create a face fillet using hold lines
09 - Use construction geometry to simplify sketches
10 - Convert and offset entities
11 - Dissolve sketch text tool
12 - Create a flat pattern
13 - Use the Curve Driven Pattern tool
14 - Use the Combine command
15 - Working with the Split command
16 - Use the Fill Pattern command
17 - Looking at solid sweeps
18 - Looking at interference detection
19 - Checking out virtual sharps
20 - Using and dimensioning arcs and curves
21 - Looking at the path length dimension
22 - Customizing the Command Manager
23 - Looking at normal cuts
24 - Creating a fishmouth with two connection points
25 - Understanding mouse gestures
26 - Renaming files
27 - Creating build materials from SOLIDWORKS Explorer
28 - Checking out Treehouse
29 - Exporting out of Treehouse
30 - Pipe coping with surface flatten
31 - Mouse gesture tips
32 - SOLIDWORKS Explorer - Renaming files
33 - SOLIDWORKS Bill of Materials (BOM)
34 - Treehouse
35 - Selection set
36 - Exclude from BOM
37 - Wrap feature
38 - Split line tricks
39 - Creating custom custom property names
40 - Link to thickness
41 - FeatureManager search
42 - Selection tricks
43 - Using the Tab key to hide and show
44 - Selection option rotation using the A key
45 - Enter key for Repeat Last Command
46 - Power trim tricks
47 - Recover the popup bar
48 - Quick reference planes
49 - Command search
50 - Drag and drop from search
51 - Export to DXF DWG 1 - 1
52 - Breadcrumb tricks
53 - Freehand sketching in Sketch Ink
54 - Auto Sketch Entities for Sketch Ink
55 - Sketch Ink Ruler
56 - Sketch Ink Protractor
57 - Touch with Sketch Ink
58 - Freehand markup
59 - Bounding Box in assemblies
60 - eDrawings webpage creation
61 - Treehouse custom properties
62 - Defeature Silhouette
63 - Exploded View improvements
64 - External References for SOLIDWORKS 2019
65 - Save an assembly as a part
66 - Interference detection for multibody parts
67 - 3D textures
68 - SOLIDWORKS open times
69 - Arc length
70 - Reference length
71 - Zoom to fit tricks
72 - Create a plane on the end of line
73 - Trim tool enhancements
74 - Weldment corners
75 - Smart patterns
76 - Sensors
77 - Shell only one section
78 - Square spring
79 - Using equal curvature
80 - Fun with magnetic mates
81 - Direct editing - Delete Hole
82 - Direct editing - Move Face tricks
83 - Sketching - Disable auto relations
84 - Using the reload command
85 - Tricks for saving parts for 3D printing
86 - Using the Biad to sketch
87 - Fun with intersections
88 - Previous Selection
89 - Select Other
90 - Change a face from solid to transparent
91 - Using files from other software packages
92 - Select Tangency
93 - Selection Filters - F5 and F6
94 - Save SOLIDWORKS settings
95 - Flat Tree View
96 - Collapse a tree
97 - Folders in the tree
98 - Custom views
99 - Custom views in drawings
100 - Rotate about an entity
101 - Normal To
102 - Zoom to Selection
103 - Rotate about the scene floor
104 - Reference triad
105 - Quickly add sketch relationships
106 - Lasso Selection
107 - Zoom to Selection
108 - Save As with References
109 - Viewing a part in wireframe
110 - Close sketch to model
111 - SketchXpert
112 - Invert Selection
113 - Single command per pick
114 - Derived Sketch
115 - Pierce vs. coincident
116 - Reset Dragging
117 - Feature Freeze
118 - Importing a mesh body
119 - Converting to a mesh body
120 - Opening ScanTo3D mesh files
121 - Mesh Prep Wizard
122 - ScanTo3D and Curve Wizard
123 - Decimate Mesh Body
124 - Segment Imported Mesh Body tool
125 - ScanTo3D - Mesh Edit
126 - Surface From Mesh tool
127 - ScanTo3D - Surface Wizard
128 - Using MeshLab
129 - Simplifying a huge mesh in MeshLab
130 - 3D textures
131 - Creating multiple planes at once
132 - Using surface intersections for complex modeling
133 - Add hardware to assemblies
134 - Sketch-driven component patterns
135 - View multiple drawing sheets at the same time
136 - Auto-add item quantity to balloons
137 - Create leaders to point to multiple items
138 - Move a view from one sheet to the next
139 - Fix a description that's too long
140 - Mate parts with Lock Rotation
141 - Search for options within SOLIDWORKS
142 - Display objects inside assemblies in different ways
143 - Specify grain direction
144 - Create and use reference blocks
145 - Geometry without in-context references
146 - Create reference lines for sketches
147 - Path link dimension
148 - Use a block as a reference for a part
149 - Reformat a bill of materials list
150 - Export a bill of materials list
151 - Create a reference block in an assembly
152 - Use properties of drawing notes
153 - Work with boundary surfaces
154 - Use boundary surface control points
155 - How to use the Check tool