Pluralsight - SOLIDWORKS - Preparing Designs for Sand Casting
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Do you design unique parts and tool, but face challenges making the physical part? In this course, SOLIDWORKS - Preparing Designs for Sand Casting, you'll explore sand casting and final machining processes. Having a better understanding of these manufacturing methods will help you create better designs for sand casting. First, you'll learn the basic concepts of sand casting design, and explore the ins and outs of parting orientation. Next, you'll dive into some techniques, including tolerance calculation, tolerance stacking, and use of fillets and chamfers. Finally, you'll discover the mysteries of draft angles and how to apply shrink rates. By the end of this course, you'll know how to take conceptual part designs and prepare them for manufacturing via sand castings. Software required: SOLIDWORKS
Using Nonlinear Analysis can give you a more accurate representation of your design when compared to a Linear Static Analysis. In this course, SOLIDWORKS Simulation – Nonlinear, you’ll learn how to accurately simulate structural design problems using a Nonlinear FEA Analysis available with SOLIDWORKS Simulation. First, you’ll learn about the distinction between a linear and a nonlinear analysis. Next, you’ll discover the definition of advanced materials and explore new loading options. Finally, you’ll learn about additional post processing options to find critical areas of your design in a more accurate manner. After watching this course, you will be equipped to setup and run a Nonlinear Analysis to simulate structural design issues before testing. Required software: SOLIDWORKS with Simulation Premium
Pluralsight - SOLIDWORKS - Design Communication Documentation - Consumer Products
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Communicating effectively is critical for manufacturing parts and products overseas. You must define your product explicitly from every angle, every material, every finish, every tolerance. Anywhere that you leave a product under defined, is a place that you're likely to get something other than what you want. This course, SOLIDWORKS - Design Communication Documentation - Consumer Products, will describe how to prepare documentation for new products to be made at a contract manufacturer / foreign factory in SOLIDWORKS using custom properties and automatically generating tables. First, you'll learn how to specify materials, colors, and textures for your consumer product. Next, you'll explore modeling and sampling techniques to prototype your design. Finally, you'll learn how portions of the plastics manufacturing process work and then use that knowledge to make educated decisions about the factory's plan to make tooling for your product. By the end this course, you'll know how to document your design more fully, enabling you to get you what you asked for, more often
There are many ways to create swoopy parts in SOLIDWORKS and the sweep command is one of the more popular ones. In this course, SOLIDWORKS Essentials – In-depth Sweeps, you'll start with just a sketch, a profile, and a path and move onto guide curves and other advanced options. First, you're going to start with the simple aspects of the sweep command, but then explore all of the options for the command. Next, you'll see examples of different uses of the options and see how guide curves, start and end tangency can help us obtain the geometry that we may want. Finally, you'll learn how solid sweeps can work as well and bi-direction sweep options. By the end of this course, you'll have a better understanding of all the different types of options inside the sweep command.
SOLIDWORKS has been an industry leader in the CAD world since it was introduced over 20 years ago. In this course, SOLIDWORKS Simulation – Design Studies/Optimization, you’ll learn a bit about design studies and optimization in SOLIDWORKS. First, you’ll discover iteration with design studies. Next, you’ll explore optimization in SOLIDWORKS. Finally, you’ll learn about simulation trends. By the end of this course, you’ll have a solid foundation with SOLIDWORKS design studies and be on your way to analyzing your own products. Software required: SOLIDWORKS
Size: 2.51 GB | Duration: 1h 10m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 1280x720 30fps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 2ch
Genre: eLearning | Level: Intermediate | Language: English
SOLIDWORKS Visualize has the distinction of being both extremely powerful and easy to use, boasting tools that can help both engineers and nontechnical content creators leverage 3D CAD data to create compelling, photorealistic content. In this course, get up to speed with SOLIDWORKS Visualize, and discover how to use this powerful software to build striking renderings of your designs. Instructor Gabriel Corbett explains how to navigate SOLIDWORKS Visualize, import parts and assemblies into the workspace, apply materials, add cameras, create advanced animations, and more.
Topics include:
Navigating SOLIDWORKS Visualize
Using selection tools
Applying materials
Adding a scene, a backplate, and lighting
Rendering from multiple cameras
Adding configurations
Removing the background
Rendering an animation
Pluralsight - SOLIDWORKS - Creating Simplified General Arrangements
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This course will examine how best to create simplified representations of large and complex assemblies and how these can be used to quickly create general arrangement models.
In this course, SOLIDWORKS - Creating Simplified General Arrangements, you will learn how to create parametric models you can easily update to the changing needs of sales and your customers. First, you will learn how to identify the information most important to your customers. Next, you will learn how to optimize your models to meet those customer needs. Finally, you will see how quickly your models can be updated and changed. When you are finished with this SolidWorks course, you'll not only have the skills to create great General Arrangement models, but also be able to impress your boss, your customers and your sales team.
Misplacing files can be a very time consuming and costly problem to have. In this course, SOLIDWORKS - File Management, you'll see some best practices for keeping everything connected. You'll start with file structure and references going over the basics of how the files interact with each other and what happens when we open and save parts, assemblies, and drawings. You will also see some real world tasks required for normal workflows such as renaming, moving, and changing files. By the end of this course, you'll be ready to maintain good habits with all of your SOLIDWORKS files.
Pluralsight - SOLIDWORKS Essentials - Configurations and Display States
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Save yourself some time by creating parts and assemblies faster than ever. This course introduces how to create and manage configurations in SOLIDWORKS Design Software.
The world of manufacturing is full of variations of similar shapes. In this course, SOLIDWORKS Essentials - Configurations and Display States, you'll learn how to save time by quickly configuring parts and assemblies. First, you'll learn what configurations are, how to create them, and how to apply edits to certain configurations. Next, you'll see some of the advanced tools for creating and editing configurations quickly and efficiently, as well as what display states are and how they're similar to configurations. Finally, you will get to see how configurations impact the other two types of files in Solidworks besides part files, assembly files, and drawing files. When you're finished with this course, you'll be familiar with many ways to optimize designs with slight or extreme variations.
Pluralsight - Creating Functional Threads in SOLIDWORKS
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If your threaded part needs to fit with another threaded component, this course will help you prevent costly, time consuming mistakes. The course is focused on SOLIDWORKS, but the methods and references used apply to any CAD program.
Having confidence that generating threaded components that will fit with other threaded components can be challenging. In this course, Creating Functional Threads in SOLIDWORKS, you'll see what steps you can take to gain that confidence. First, you'll see some specifications and definitions of thread standards. Next, you will learn to use reference data and tables to create threaded CAD models. Then, you'll learn ways to finish the ends of your thread and how to inspect the model. After this course, you'll know where to locate thread specifications and how to build a threaded model that is ready to be built as a physical part.
This course will show you all the capabilities within SOLIDWORKS' Fillet feature, with examples of when to use them, and the pros and cons of each.
Simple circular fillets taught at beginner level SOLIDWORKS cannot create the complex geometries needed from ergonomic or molded part design. In this course, SOLIDWORKS - Advanced Filleting Techniques, you'll see many alternative filleting methods for creating these shapes, which can give you a lot of control over these blends. While modeling a plastic gas can from scratch, you will be introduced to the fillet and chamfer features in their entirety. Failing fillet features will also be seen, and new fillets will be used to fix them. By the end of this course, you will have a solid grasp of the fundamentals, best practices, and familiarity with the filleting tool so the fastest, and best option can be used during your CAD modeling process.
Learn how to make unique parts inside an assembly in SOLIDWORKS to bridge between multiple parts, or to make things that fit unique openings such as inspection openings in aircraft or machines. This course, SOLIDWORKS Advanced - Top-Down Design, will teach you techniques to make those "bridge" parts (called cover plates) easily. First, you'll learn to associate an existing part to another part in an assembly to make a perfect fit. Next, you'll learn how to modify an existing part and making it virtual so it can be changed radically, without altering the original part or its drawing. Finally, you'll learn how to insert a new part to make a virtual part or external part that does the job, and some great tips to prevent losing associations with changes.
This course focuses on the drawing creation process from start to finish in SOLIDWORKS. You will learn tools, concepts, and tips for creating better drawings in less time.
Drawings are the way to communicate your designs to the world. They provide the ability to express as much information as you need to communicate clearly and efficiently. In this course, SOLIDWORKS Essentials - In-depth Drawings, you will explore how drawings are produced in SOLIDWORKS. In the scenario for this course, you have been tasked with detailing a piece of engineering history, a small steam engine, so that it can be fabricated in today's manufacturing environment. First, you will be exploring the many SOLIDWORKS drawing tools, techniques, and the environment that will help create clearly communicated designs. Next, starting from scratch, you will be creating your own template and adding the needed drawing sheets. Finally, you will add views, dimensions, notes, properties, balloons, and tables to fully document and communicate the design. By the end of this course you'll know how to set up the software and document the design from start to finish using the tools and techniques in SOLIDWORKS.
Pluralsight - SOLIDWORKS Drawings - Setting Up Properties and Template
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If you have wondered about setting up SOLIDWORKS part, assembly, or drawing templates so you can standardize how they look and behave, then this course is for you. Custom properties and option settings will be instrumental in accomplishing this task.
There are so many tools inside SOLIDWORKS to automate operations and standardize procedures. The problem is that some people don't utilize them very much. In this course, SOLIDWORKS Drawings - Setting Up Properties and Templates, you'll learn how to set up these tools and templates to your advantage. You will look at creating properties and using them for things like BOM templates and title blocks. You'll also learn how to set up templates for files, BOMs, and other items so that they are consistent and accurate for your drawings. Finally, you'll learn how to pull your custom properties into these templates. By the end of this course, you'll be able to use the tools of SOLIDWORKS to help you design your products with more ease and efficiency
Dynamic Analysis gives you the output of your design to a vibration load. This course will teach you how to set up and run a linear dynamic and non-linear dynamic analysis.
This is an advanced course that builds on the concepts developed in a Linear Static Analysis. In this course, SOLIDWORKS Simulation - Dynamics, you'll learn how to set up and run a linear dynamic and non-linear dynamic analysis. First, you'll get a better understanding on how the solver works behind the scenes. Next, you'll explore additional concepts like damping, time steps, and new post processing options. Finally, you'll learn about non-linear dynamic analysis and key differences with linear dynamics are highlighted and an example problem is solved. By the end of this course, you'll be able to successfully set up and run a linear dynamic and a non-linear dynamic analysis. Software required: SOLIDWORKS
Creating large structures from the part level up to an assembly can be a challenge. If the structure has uncommon angles or needs to change size or shape, then every part needs to be individually changed, too, which may be time-consuming and error-prone. In this course, SOLIDWORKS: Weldments in Assemblies, you will learn how to apply SolidWorks Weldments in a multibody part file referencing various forms of sketch reference geometry in the modeling of a power line tower leg. First, you'll learn how to import a design sketch. After that, you'll learn how to apply new weldment profiles and how to modify your existing model. Finally, you'll wrap up the course learning about inserting weldments and how you cut lists into a drawing. By the end of this course, you'll have the skills required to make to quickly and efficiently use design sketches to drive the geometry of your models.
SOLIDWORKS Simulation - Troubleshooting Common Errors
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Duration 58m Project Files Included MP4
SOLIDWORKS Simulation – Troubleshooting Common Errors
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Designers and engineers primarily use structural simulation to determine the strength and stiffness of a product by reporting component stress and deformations. In this course, SOLIDWORKS Simulation – Troubleshooting Common Errors, you’ll learn how to modify geometry and learn techniques to prevent mesh failures, and to prevent other failures associated with mesh size. First, you’ll learn about fixing broken faces due to bad imports. Next, you’ll learn about mesh failures and about solver instability warnings. Then, you’ll learn about result accuracy questions and will learn about idealization errors. Finally, you’ll learn how to troubleshoot if your study will not completely solve, and how to trust and prove your conclusions numerically. By the end of this course, you’ll know how to prepare your model for simulation, modify it or the simulation if mesh failures occur. Software required: SOLIDWORKS 2016
Pluralsight - SOLIDWORKS Essentials - Revolve and Sweep
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You’ll be able to create contour curves and shapes using these two easy-to-use tools. First, you’ll learn how to create Revolved Bosses and Swept Bosses. Next, you’ll learn more about that topic and create Thin Features and Cut Features. Finally, you’ll be demonstrating all of these concepts while modeling a Basketball Hoop and a Basketball. When you’re finished with this SOLIDWORKS course, you’ll not only master these tools in a short time period, but also be able to identify more opportunities to use them and be able to be more productive and reach your design goals efficiently and confidently. Software required: SOLIDWORKS (any release/version)
