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Solid Works Training Material PDF
Solid Works Training Material PDF
Coordinator,
Mr. Mohamad Ikhwan Zaini Ridzwan
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Contents
Day One 29 April 2008
Module 1: Introduction to SolidWorks and Basic Sketching..................................... 1
Introduction to SolidWorks........................................................................................1
SolidWorks user interface & Toolbar menus .......................................................2
FeatureManager Design Tree ...............................................................................4
Keyboard shortcuts and mouse buttons..............................................................5
Tools-Options .........................................................................................................6
Basic 2D sketching....................................................................................................9
Sketch Entities/Geometry.................................................................................. 10
Status of a sketch............................................................................................... 11
Sketch Relations................................................................................................. 12
Tutorial 1.1: Sketch a Simple Nut with Circle and Polygon ............................. 20
Tutorial 1.2: Using 3D sketch ............................................................................ 21
Tutorial 1.3: Apply Add Relations between Sketch Entities . 22
Exercise 1.1: Sketching Horizontal and Vertical Lines..................................... 23
Exercise 1.2: Sketching Lines............................................................................ 23
Exercise 1.3: Sketching using Rectangle and Circle........................................ 24
Exercise 1.4: Sketching a Chair Frame using 3D sketch................................. 24
Module 2: Additional Sketching ............................................................................... 25
Tutorial 2.1: Creating a Flat Bar ............................................................................ 26
Tutorial 2.2.............................................................................................................. 31
Tutorial 2.3.............................................................................................................. 33
Exercise 2.1 ........................................................................................................ 35
Exercise 2.2 ........................................................................................................ 36
Module 3: Basic Part Modeling ................................................................................ 37
Sketching and Creating Bosses............................................................................. 38
Creating a Counterbore Hole ............................................................................. 41
Cut Feature ......................................................................................................... 43
Filleting................................................................................................................ 46
Chamfering.......................................................................................................... 47
Define Material and Mass Properties ............................................................... 48
Editing features .................................................................................................. 49
Exercise 3.1: Glass Plate ....................................................................................... 51
Exercise 3.2: Bracket ............................................................................................. 51
Exercise 3.3 ............................................................................................................ 52
Exercise 3.4: Gland ................................................................................................ 52
Exercise 3.5: PVC Tee Pipe .................................................................................... 54
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Main Menu
Standard Views
Toolbar
Standard
Toolbar
View Toolbar
CommandManager
FeatureManager
Design Tree
Status Toolbar
Menus
When a menu item is followed by a series of dots, it means that option opens a
dialog box with additional choices or information.
Toolbars menus
Example of a Toolbar
Standard toolbar as shown below contains commonly used function as opening
new or existing documents, saving documents, printing, copying and pasting
objects, undo, redo, and help.
You can turn toolbars on and off using one of three methods.
1. Click Tools Customize. On the
Toolbars page, click the check boxes
to select each toolbar you want to
display. Clear the check boxes of the
toolbars you want to hide.
The PropertyManager appears on the PropertyManager tab in the panel to the left
of the graphics area. It opens when you select entities or commands defined in the
PropertyManager.
OK. Accept the selections,
execute the command, and
close the PropertyManager.
Cancel. Ignore any
selections and close the
PropertyManager.
Title bar
Help. Open the
corresponding help topic.
Preview. Display a
preview of the feature.
Tools-Options
The Options dialog box able you to customize the SolidWorks software based on
your preferences.
Level of customization:
System Options
Every option under System Options will affect every document you open in
SolidWorks session. For example, the viewport background, if you set the color to
Black, it will remain as black every time you open the SolidWorks window until you
change to another color.
Example: Set Viewport Background to White
Document Properties
This setting only applied to individual documents. For example, units, drafting
standard, material properties, image quality etc. They are saved with the
document and do not change.
Example: Setting Units
Sketches
(Collections of 2D geometry that are used to create solid features)
Sketch Entities/Geometry
(Types of 2D geometry such as lines, circles and rectangles that make up the
sketch)
Sketch Relations
(Geometric relationships such as horizontal and vertical are applied to the sketch
entities. The relations restrict the movement of the entities)
Sketch tools
(Tools can be used to modify the sketch geometry that has been created/ this
often involves the trimming or extension of the entities)
Sketch Entities/Geometry
SolidWorks offers a rich variety of sketch tools for creating profile geometry.
Sketch entity
Toolbar button
Geometry example
Line
Circle
Centerpoint Arc
3 Point Arc
Tangent Arc
Ellipse
Partial Ellipse
Parabola
Spline
Polygon
Rectangle
Parallelogram
Point
Centerline
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Status of a sketch
The most common color codes are:
No. Color
Diagnostic
Case
Under constrained
1.
Blue
(this is usually
appears when first
drawn)
Fully constrained
2.
Black
(when more
constraints and
dimensions are
added to the sketch
the sketch
become completely
defined)
Over constrained
3.
Red
(adding any
dimension to fully
defined would
serve to overdefine
the sketch)
Only case 1 and 2 are allowable. For case 3, you must fix the error as soon as
possible before quitting the sketch mode otherwise a warning message will popout and it will create more problems for yourself.
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Sketch Relations
The following table describes the entities that you can select for a relation and the
characteristics of the resulting relation.
Relation
Horizontal or
Vertical
Entities to select
One or more lines or
two or more points.
Collinear
Coradial
Tangent
Concentric
Midpoint
Intersection
Coincident
Equal
Symmetric
Fix
Resulting relations
The lines become horizontal or
vertical (as defined by the current
sketch space). Points are aligned
horizontally or vertically.
The items lie on the same infinite
line.
The items share the same centerpoint
and radius.
The two items are perpendicular to
each other.
The items are parallel to each other.
The line is parallel to the selected
plane.
The two items remain tangent.
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Where to find it
Or, right click the entity or entities, and select Add Relation from the short-cut
menu
Or, click Tools, Relations, Add
Or, on the Sketch toolbar click Add Relation
You can view all relations in your sketches by select View Sketch Relations
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4. Click OK.
5. Open a new Sketch.
Open the sketch by either clicking
or choosing Sketch from the Insert
menu.
This will show all three default planes for
selection in a trimetric orientation.
From the screen, choose the Front Plane.
The plane will highlight and rotate.
6. Sketch active.
The selected Front Plane
rotates so it is parallel to the
screen.
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Double click on 125 and modify to 110. Youll see that other dimensions remain
unchanged.
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Modified part
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5. Click Tools Sketch Entities Polygon from the Menu bar. Sketch a Polygon
centered to the origin larger than the circle.
6. Extrude to 8 mm depth.
Circumscribed circle
Inscribed circle
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Tutorial 1.3: Sketch part using Lines, 3 Point Arc, Tangent Arc and apply Add Relations between Sketch Entities
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Select Tangent as
relations
Symbol of tangent as
relations between these
two arcs
Add dimensions as
illustrated
Extrude to 80 mm depth
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Understand and utilize the available tools from the Sketch toolbar to create
and modify the sketch:
o Trim able to trim the selected entities,
o Linear Pattern able to create a linear pattern along one or both
axes,
o Mirror able to mirror existing sketch entities,
o Offset able to offset one or more sketch entities, and selected
model edges by a specified distance,
o Circular Pattern able to create a circular pattern along one or both
axes
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4.
Click Rectangle
5.
Click Centerline
toolbar.
6.
Select both Centerline and Origin Point (press Ctrl key while selecting) and
choose Midpoint as their relations.
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7.
8.
9.
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16. Editing
a. Reduce the number of holes to 5
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v. Click OK and you will see that the sketch plane is now changed to Top Plane.
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6.
Coincident
Horizontal
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7.
8.
Select Mirror from the sketch toolbar and mirror the entity with respect to the
vertical Centerline.
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5.
6.
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7.
Sketch one Line which 6.15 mm from the vertical Centerline and Mirror
about the Centerline. Then Trim the lines carefully until you get as similar as
in figure below. If you pick a wrong line, you may Undo the step.
Trimming
8.
9.
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(a)
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Exercise 2.2: Create a solid model of this 2 mm thick steel bicycle disk rotor.
(25 minutes)
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Features
Pattern/mirror
Some of the icons (which are not circled) will be seen during Module 4 Additional
Part Modeling.
On the completion of this module, you will be able to:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
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5. Extrude 10 mm upwards.
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Cut Feature
15. Press the spacebar and double-click *Front.
Start a sketch on this large face and add a rectangle Coincident
with the bottom model edge.
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20. Hole.
Click the Hole tab and set the properties of the hole as follows:
Standard: Ansi Metric
Screw Type: Drill sizes
Size: 12.5
End Condition: Through All
21. Turn to Hole Position and locate the holes.
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Filleting
24. lnsert Fillet.
Set a radius = 10 mm
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Chamfering
26. Add chamfer
to the holes.
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Editing features
31. Mass of the part can be reduced by modified the thickness of the features.
32. Right click on Extrude and select Edit Feature.
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36. The Cut Feature is still maintaining the dimension to be 2.50 mm from the bottom
face.
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R20 fillet
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Exercise 3.3:
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Give dimensions
Start sketching
Trimming
Mirror
Extrude 10
mm
Sketch small
circle and mirror
for another circle
Complete part
Sketch circle with 70 mm
diameter and extrude 10 mm
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Revolved features
Revolved Boss/Base material added by rotating the profiles about a centerline
Revolved Cut material removed by rotating the sketch
The Revolve parameters box provides the ability to select:
Axis of Revolution
Revolve Type
One-Direction
Mid-Plane
Two-Direction
Angle
It controls the revolve
thickness
Centerline
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Tutorial 4.1:
1. Draw a Centerline across the Origin
3. Exit the sketch and select Revolve from Features toolbar. Select the Centerline
as the Axis of Revolution.
It rotates clockwise
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4. The direction of rotation and its angle can be changed, i.e. 180.
5. Click OK.
6. To edit the feature. Right click Revolve and select Edit Feature.
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9. Sketch a Circle and tick For construction box. The line will turn to construction
line.
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10. Sketch a small Circle and coincident with the construction line.
12. The hole will be copied around the face by using Circular Pattern. Click View
Temporary Axes. The axis will be used as axis of rotation.
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13. Select Circular Pattern from Features toolbar. Number of holes are 6.
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Patterning
In Module 2, you have learnt the sketch pattern such as linear and circular
pattern. There are other pattern tools that are available in SolidWorks. You may
find them at Insert Pattern/Mirror.
Pattern repeats the selected features in an array based on a seed feature. You
can create a linear pattern, a circular pattern, a curve driven pattern, a fill pattern,
or use sketch points or table coordinates to create the pattern.
Linear pattern
Circular pattern
Curve driven
pattern
Fill pattern
Sketch points
or
Table
coordinates to
create the
pattern
But remember, the commands are only enable when you have multi body parts.
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Sketch as illustrated
(some of the entities
are free dimension)
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Offset 5 mm
Extrude to 10 mm
Sketch a Circle with diameter 3
mm on top of spline face
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Swept
Swept Boss/Base material added by sweeping a profile along the path
Cut Sweep material removed by sweeping a profile along the path
Sample of applications:
Power cord
Spiral coil
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Completed part
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Sketch a Circle
Completed spring
Create a Profile
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Lofted
Loft creates a feature by making transitions between profiles. A loft can be a base,
boss, cut, or surface. You create a loft using two or more profiles. Only the first, last,
or first and last profiles can be points. All sketch entities, including guide curves and
profiles, can be contained in a single 3D sketch.
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2. Select and sketch 3 Point Arc at other Top Plane. One of its end points must
coincident with the Origin.
3. View in Isometric.
4. Create a Plane Normal to Curve. You have to select the Arc and Point.
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6. Select Loft from Feature toolbar. Select Sketch 1 and Sketch 3 (both
Rectangles) as the profiles.
7. Expand the Centerline Parameters and pick the Arc (Sketch 2).
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2. To create another Plane, Hold Ctrl key and drag Front plane to the left.
to 30 mm and Instances: 2
4. Create one more plane (Plane3) which 40 mm from Plane2 using the same
method.
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6. Exit sketch.
7. Select Plane1 and sketch a Circle.
8. Exit sketch.
9. Select Plane2 and sketch another Circle, which its radius is coincident with the
vertex of the square. Exit the sketch.
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14. Select Plane4 that you have just created and sketch a Rectangle as illustrated
below.
15. Click Features Lofted Boss/Base. Select the profile. Pick the point at the right
bottom of square and rectangle.
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Rib
Rib
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Tutorial 4.7: Using Shell to create wall thickness inside the Bottle
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5. Sub assemblies
Assemblies can be created and inserted into the current assembly. They are
considered sub-assembly components.
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2.
3.
Bill of Materials (BOM) table can be generated from the assembly. Associated
balloons can be added to identify the items.
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Assembly toolbars
Insert components
Hide/show components
Change suppression state
Edit component
No external references
Mate
Move component
Smart fasteners
Exploded view
Explode line sketch
Interference detection
Simulation
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Fixed
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4. Mate the faces of these two components (Bracket C Link) and select Coincident
Select top Face of C Link
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Coincident
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2
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6. Mating components (select U Bolts right leg and Brackets hole) choose Concentric
2
1
Concentric
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8. Select bottom faces of U-Bolt and C Link and constraint their Distance to maintain at 40 mm.
Distance
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9. Continue with the other side. You have to insert other U-Bolt and C Link and
apply mates on respective parts as before.
10. You will utilize the Design Library and take a standard nut from the library.
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Double click the nut
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12. You will be asked to Select a Configuration of the nut size. Select M20-2.5.
M Metric, 20 nut diameter (in mm)
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15. A complete assembly.
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9 components
20 mates
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17. Select the component to be exploded a triad will appear place the cursor
over the arrow on the triad that represents the direction in which component
should be exploded then drag to the desired distance.
18. Select the nuts (it will be highlighted in cyan color at the design tree). Then drag
the triad downward.
Exploded step
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20. Expand the entries in the ConfigurationManager so that defined Explode Steps
will appear
1
2
Exploding
Collapsing
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22. Select edges or faces on components that the explode line will connect
between.
Select
edges
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Module 6: Drawing
After completion of this module, you will be able to: make 2-D drawing from a SolidWorks part file.
create a custom drawing sheet format, and
use eDrawings to create a drawing file that allows easy file sharing
1. To open a new drawing file, open SolidWorks 2007, click New icon on the
Standard toolbar.
3. You will be asked about the format and size of your drawing layout. Click
Standard sheet size and select A-Landscape. Do not turn on the Display sheet
format yet.
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Drawing toolbars
In the drawing mode, the CommandManager has THREE groups of command:
Drawing
Sketch
Annotation
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6. Select Third angle projection. Do not worry about the scale, it can be changed
later,
Select Third
angle projection
8. Then Browse
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9. Search the Bracket that you have created during Exercise 3.2 or go to
Desktop/Module3/Exercise 3.2. Enable the Preview to view the part before you
open.
Top view
Front view
Right view
11. All other views are aligned with the Front view. When you move/drag the front
view up-down or left-right will move the other views.
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Marked for
Drawing
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2
Move the cursor over the edge
3
Move the cursor to the downside of
the bracket
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16. A Section View is created. To reverse the arrow direction double click on the
section line
17. To break alignment between section view and top view, right click the section
view; go to Alignment-Break Alignment.
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19. The location of Right view will be replaced by the Section view, but you need to
rotate this view first. Right click the view; choose Zoom/Pan/Rotate Rotate
View.
21. Select the section view, and click Centerline Tool from Annotations group then
centerlines will be added to the holes
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22. Press and hold the Shift key and drag the dimension of 45 mm diameter hole
from the top view into the Section View
23. You can also hide the dimension. Just select the dimension you want to hide,
right click and find Hide. To show the dimension, go to View Hide/Show
Annotations, then click any hidden dimension
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Insert a Note
24. Select Note Tool from the Annotation group
25. Begin typing the text as shown in the box that appears.
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28. Right click in the drawing area and select Edit Sheet Format.
29. The drawing Sheet Format. After this, you will learn how to do some modification
to the sheet.
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30. Drag your mouse from left to the right to select all the lines and information that
you may not needed. Press Delete key and then use Trim Entities to trim the
lines.
31. Trim until you get the drawing table like this.
32. Select Note Tool and type inside the Comments. Symbol plus/minus is inserted
by clicking on the Add Symbol Tool under Text Format tab.
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33. Fill up the form as shown; type your department and drawing title.
34. To modify the scale, you have to go to Sheet Properties and change the Scale
1:2.
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36. You will get back to the other side of drawing. It includes your drawing part and
sheet.
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37. A trimetric view can often be helpful in interpreting a 2D drawing. To bring the
view into the drawing layout, click Model View from Drawings.
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Assembly Drawing
Assembly drawings show all the parts and how they go together
Dimensioning is not usually required
Hidden lines usually omitted
3D CAD packages can generate assembly drawings directly from assembly
models
Balloons
Parts list
(BOM)
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Uncheck the
box
4. In the new drawing window, select the Standard 3 View, and make
sure it is in Third angle projection
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Select Trimetric
from the list
Trimetric view
1
Right click the
Trimetric View
and select
Properties
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Customizing BOMs
11. Edit the title box
Click on the
Part Number
cell, and
select
Column
Properties
12. The drawing is almost complete, but the item numbers in the Bill of Materials
are not linked with the components in the drawing. We will add balloons with
part numbers to the drawing.
AutoBalloons
13. Select the exploded Trimetric Views. Select
the AutoBalloons Tool from the Annotations
group of the CommandManager.
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Item number
Quantity
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4. e-drawing file.
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Exercises 6.1:
In the PropertyManager, click Browse, and then open Desktop\ SolidWorks Basic
Training/Module6/motor casing.sldasm. Do the assembly drawing as shown.
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