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SOLIDWORKS Tips and Tricks

Phil Sluder
Mechanical Engineer
TriAxial Design and Analysis, Inc.

sluder@triaxialdesign.com
(619) 787-8725

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A History of SolidWorks Tips and Tricks
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Custom Thread Profiles
C:\ProgramData\SOLIDWORKS\SOLIDWORKS 2017\Thread Profiles
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Selection Manager and CSWE Weldment Trap
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Please enter a number between 1 and 25…
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And to answer your
next question… Yes
Solid Bodies Sub Folders
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Which of These Things is Not Like the Others?
Replace Imported Fasteners in an Assembly
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• Replace all instances of


component, ignoring missing
references
• Replace missing mate
references
• Editing hole wizard default sizing
(changes all holes in the feature)
• Save and use Hole Wizard
Favorite (inside part file and
global)

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Online Fastener Download Manipulation
Group Component Instances
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Tree Display,
Group Component Instances

Note tree order before and


after grouping.

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Layout sketch

Shared sketches
Multiple solid bodies
Multiple contour sketches
Shared Sketches
Multiple Closed Contours / Flip Side to Cut
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• Layout sketch
• Multiple contour sketches
• Multiple Closed Contours, and flip side to cut
• Shared sketches
• Multiple solid bodies

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Copied and Derived Sketches in Parts
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• Base sketch
• Multiple contour sketches
• Derived sketches in parts
• Copied sketches in parts

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Derived Sketches in Assemblies
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• Layout sketch
• Multiple contour sketches
• Edit part in assembly
• Derived sketches in assembly

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Good example of Shared Sketches
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Layout sketch
Multiple contour sketches
Sheared sketches
Multiple solid bodies

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Bending / Laminating Curved Shapes
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• Spline Length
• Equal Length (Line and Spline)
• Define Overall Length Graphically
• Thicken Surface

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Smart Components for One Component
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• Smart Features for Only One


Part in Assembly (Pocket Screw
Good Example)
• Inserting Smart Components
• Inserting Smart Features

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Assembly Feature for Multiple Components
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• In-Context Assembly Features for Multiple Parts in


Assembly (Loose Tenons – Mortise Good Example)
• Patterning Components (Seed Only)
• Converting multiple sketches into one assembly
feature sketch

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Cut Sweep / Boss Sweep / Split
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• Composite Curve
• Split and Intersection
• Drawing View of Individual Body
or Groups of Bodies

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Weldments / Custom Molding Profiles
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• Merge Miter Trimmed Entities


• Creating Custom Molding Profile
– Save *.LFP in “Weldment
Profiles” Folder
• Modifying Profile
• Location
• Rotation Angle
• Align

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Scribe Instead of Split Line
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And to answer your other


question, the Santa Monica
Pier is 14.2 miles from
here…

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Colors

Appearances
Sketch Colors

Color Swatches
Appearance Swatches
Organizing Color Swatches
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Fixtures with Tooling Balls
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Bowl Feeder Geometry
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Three Sketch Wrap with Sketch Blocks
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Radii on Edges of Surface
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Vary Sketch with Multiple Solid Bodies
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Symmetry…

About Two Edges

About Two Planes


About Two Temporary Axes
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Flag Note v Balloon
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(Before the Days of 3D Sketches… Gasp!)
Tubing with Composite Curves
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Nested Pallet Features
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Multiple Assemblies from Layout Part
Hole Wizard
Decimal Drill Size Display
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Select here and use


up/down arrows to
change hole size

Watch decimal size


change in real time here

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SOLIDWORKS Tips and Tricks

Phil Sluder
Mechanical Engineer
TriAxial Design and Analysis, Inc.

sluder@triaxialdesign.com
(619) 787-8725

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