SOLIDWORKS

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Introduction The Solid Works software is a solid modeling

computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided engineering (CAE) software program that runs on Microsoft Windows. The SolidWorks is produced by the Dassault Systems— a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes. Solid Works is currently used by over 2 million engineers and designers at more than 165,000 .

SOLIDWORKS Corporation was founded in December 1993 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate Jon Hirschtick; Hirschtick used $1 million he had made while a member of the MIT Blackjack Team to set up the company. Initially based in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA, Hirschtick recruited a team of engineers with the goal of building 3D CAD software that was easy-to-use, affordable, and available on the Windows desktop. Operating later from Concord, Massachusetts, SOLIDWORKS released its first product SolidWorks 95, in 1995.[5][6] In 1997 Dassault, best known for its CATIA CAD software, acquired SolidWorks for $310 million in stock.

Introduction

• SolidWorks, 3D PartStream.NET, 3D Content Central,

eDrawings, and the eDrawings logo are registered trademarks

and FeatureManager is a jointly owned registered trademark of

DS SolidWorks.

Circuit Works, Feature Palette, FloXpress, PhotoWorks,

TolAnalyst, and XchangeWorks are trademarks of DS

SolidWorks.

Feature Works is a registered trademark of Geometric Software

Solutions Ltd.

SolidWorks 2011, SolidWorks Enterprise PDM, SolidWorks

Simulation, SolidWorks Flow Simulation, and eDrawings

Professional are product names of DS SolidWorks.

Contents

Part Design

2D design (Sketch) , 3D design (Features) , Part design consider in the part design section

Assembly Design

Assembling of two or more than two parts consider in this section

Drawing

Designing with standards is consider in the drawing section

Sketch :- Using Interface : In three dimensional

software we need to select an interface as working space. SolidWorks give three different planes to choose as a working place.

Create a New Part Document 1 Create a new part. Click New on the

Standard toolbar. The New SolidWorks Document

dialog box appears. 2 Click the Tutorial tab. 3 Select the Part icon. 4 Click OK. A new part document window

appears. Base Feature The Base feature requires: Sketch plane – Front (default plane) Sketch profile – 2D Rectangle Feature type – Extruded boss

feature

Open a Sketch 1 Click to select the Front plane in the Feature Manager design tree. 2 Open a 2D sketch. Click Sketch on the Sketch toolbar.

Confirmation Corner When many SolidWorks commands are active, a symbol or a set of symbols appears in the upper right corner of the graphics area. This area is called the Confirmation Corner. Sketch Indicator When a sketch is active, or open, a symbol appears in the confirmation corner that looks like the Sketch tool. It provides a visual reminder that you are active in a sketch. Clicking this symbol exits the sketch saving your changes. Clicking the red X exits the sketch discarding your changes.

When other commands are active, the confirmation corner displays two symbols: a check mark and an X. The check mark executes the current command. The X cancels the command.

Sketch Commands Line

Circle

Arc

Ellipse

Rectangle

Spline

Fillet

Slot

Making Cylinder First of all we need a 2D sketch and after that it will converted into a 3D design .

3D Feature

Commands

Extrude

Swept

Revolve

Loft

Extruded Cut

Lofted Cut

Revolve Cut

Pattern

a. Linear Pattern

b. Circular Pattern

Shell

Rib

Draft

Part Design

First Section of 3D design is part design. Part design simply a 3D representation of a single design components

Dimensioning in 2D

Assembly Design An assembly design consists of two or

more components assembled together at their respective work positions using parametric relations. In SolidWorks, these relations are called mates. These mates allow you to constrain the degrees of freedom of the components at their respective work positions.

All components are created as separate part documents, and then they are placed and referenced in the assembly as external components. In this type of approach, the components are created in the Part mode and saved as the (.sldprt) documents.

After creating and saving all components of the assembly, you need to start a new assembly document (.sldasm) and insert the components in it using the tools provided in the Assembly mode. After inserting the components, you can assemble

Assembly mates : After designing the parts , now they are assembled by using the mate technology. While doing assembly the mates are the main point to be remember. In Solid Works, mates can be applied using the Mate Property Manager. Choose the Mate button in the Assemble Command Manager or choose Insert > Mate from the. Select a planar face, curved face, axis, or a point on the first component and then select the entity from the second component; the selected entities will be highlighted. The names of the selected entities will be displayed in the Entities to Mate selection box of the Mate Selections rollout.

Drawing

Drawing in Solid Works is done by the use of ISO standards. In the

drawing section firstly the size of sheet is decided

After start the drawing section we have to select a drawing sheet . Usually A4 sheet is

used for the standard.

At the drawing sheet assembly parts design is used for giving the details within

standards . First the assemble design is select from the save designs .

After selecting a assembly design the different views are selected for detailing . Views Placement : a. Front View b. Top View c. Side View d. Isometric View ( 3D View) Dimensioning : Scaling :

Dimensioning / Detailing

After adding the different views on a drawing sheet next thing to do is dimensioning and detailing. The proper dimensioning of all view expect the isometric or 3D view .