SolidWorks 2021: Part Modeling, Assemblies, and Drawings

1586 Pages·2021·66.942 MB·English

by  Keska, Pawel

Paweł Kęska
®
SOLIDWORKS 2021
Part Modeling | Assemblies |
Drawings
Step by Step Instructions

Edition I

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Preparation and composition: Paweł Kęska

ISBN: 978-83-936576-3-6

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About the Author

Paweł Kęska is an experienced SOLIDWORKS user, working with the program
continuously since the release of SOLIDWORKS®99 until now. His level of
acquired knowledge has been confirmed by many international certificates,
including the highest one achievable for individual users, i.e. Certified
SOLIDWORKS Expert (CSWE). He is also certified as a Certified SOLIDWORKS
Instructor (CSWI) and has earned majority of certificates recognized as Certified
SOLIDWORKS Professional (CSWP) certifications.
Paweł Kęska has been providing highest quality SOLIDWORKS training and
design services in the country and abroad for over twelve years as part of his
CADvantage company. In addition, he is a co-founder and from the beginning -
the leader of the Polish SOLIDWORKS Users Group.
e-mail: [email protected]

CSWI - Certified Instructor SOLIDWORKS®
CSWE - Certified Expert SOLIDWORKS®

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS 3
About the Book 5
Terminology 5
Sample files included with the manual 5

CHAPTER 1

BASICS OF MODELING 7
Introduction to modeling 8
Preparation of the work environment 8
First sketch 24
Sketching, dimensioning, basic operations 27
Space manipulation and display modes 35
Dimensioning 44
Extruding Boss/Base 50
Pattern and Mirror 79
Linear Pattern 80
Circular Pattern 84
Mirror 87
Additional Patterns 88
Patterns Performance Comparison 93
Operation by rotation 105
Design Library 115
Multibody Parts 121
Equations 145
Material 153
Draft analysis and design changes 181

CHAPTER 2

ADVANCED PART MODELING 185
Sketching 3D 186
Skech 3D 186
Sweep 192
Solid Hybrid Modeling 205
Design Changes 227
Configurations 230
Manual Configurations 231
Derived Configurations 235
Configurations in the table SOLIDWORKS 236
Configuration Table (Excel®) 239
Simplifying geometry 254
Design methods comparison 257
Equations 261

CHAPTER 3

SHEET METAL 264
Types of sheet metal 265
K-Factor 269
Sheet metal properties 271
Sheet metal tools 274
Sheet metal emboss 280
Conversion 2D to 3D 305

CHAPTER 4

WELDMENTS 313
Weldments 314
Weldment Profiles Library 314
Structural Member 318
Weld Bead 327
Imported files to Weldments 343
Structure system 347

CHAPTER 5

SURFACE AND HYBRID MODELING 359
Fundamentals of Surface Modeling 360
Hybrid Surface Modeling 360
3D Sketch Guide Curves 375
Advanced surface modeling 385
Split ans Save bodies 395
Applying appearances 409
Bounding Box and Silhouette Entities 419
Imported files 436
Opening Import files 436
CHAPTER 6

ASSEMBLIES 455
Assembly modeling 456
Mates 459
SOLIDWORKS Add-Ins 463
SOLIDWORKS package comparison 464
Main assembly 468
Copying components 475
Simplify Assemblies 493
Saving the assembly as a part 497
Components from an external source 524
In-Context design 551
Cavity 551
In-Context modeling 556

Assembly analysis 561
Interference Detection 561
Collision detection 569
Other assembly verification tools 570
Overview of the functionality of assemblies 577
Mates and Design tree structure 577
Display States 582
Exploded Views 587
Saving Assemblies 597
Flexible components 601
Communication 610
eDrawings 610
3D PDF 613
Strength Calculations 615
Analysis of the results 620
SOLIDWORKS Simulation product matrix 627

CHAPTER 7

DRAWINGS 628
Technical drawings 629
General information 629
Dimensioning 640
Drawing tools 651
Section View 651
Other tools available on the Layout View tab 669
Auxilary view, Detail view, Broken-out Section 669
Break view, Crop view, Removed section 672
Annotations 678
Surface finish, Tolerances, Notes 678
Sheet metal drawings 685
Saving sheet metal as DWG/DXF 693
Weldments drawings 696
Assembly Drawing 721
Alternate position view 727
Bill of Materials and Balloons 732
Customized Templates and Properties 745
Custom Properties 745
Table integration with model properties 753
Creating your own Title block 757
Sheet formats and templates saving 763
Detailing Mode 766
Index 769

LIST OF EXERCISES

CHAPTER 1 781
CHAPTER 2 784
CHAPTER 3 786
CHAPTER 4 788
CHAPTER 5 788
CHAPTER 6 790
CHAPTER 7 791

Mini rendering gallery 794
Introduction
About the Book
The SOLIDWORKS 2021 Handbook is the latest book for people who want to
learn the program from the beginning and those wanting to learn more
advanced tools. Particular emphasis is placed on practical Exercises, allowing
you to learn how to use many useful functions in practise. The theoretical part is
kept to a minimum. Through carefully selected examples from many areas, such
as basic and advanced modeling, technical drawings, sheet metal, weldments,
assemblies and surface modeling, you will learn the latest features and
improvements in SOLIDWORKS 2021.
The book aims to introduce the solutions from the latest version of the
program. It starts with learning from a scratch, and gradually introduces the
reader to more and more advanced functions.
Users who already have some skills can learn more advanced tools and many
tricks helpful to speed up the work on a daily basis.
The handbook is written based on the latest version of SOLIDWORKS 2021, so
users with an older version of SOLIDWORKS will not be able to complete some
of the Exercises in the same way due to functional limitations.

Terminology
The SOLIDWORKS 2021 manual is full of tutorials, so you need to right-click or
left-click frequently. To make reading easier, the following markings are used:
right mouse button - and left mouse button .
In any other situation, without clearly indicating the key, it should be assumed
that the default is left-click.
In addition, there are distinguishing marks in the text that are intended to draw
the reader's attention to: