This training course will teach you the essential tools and modeling techniques to design efficiently in SOLIDWORKS—the world's leading CAD software for product design and development.

Course Highlights

• Creating your first 3D part

• Creating sketches

• Modeling with the Extrude and Revolve features

• Applying materials, colors, and backgrounds

• Sketching basic shapes and polygons

• Creating offset geometry

• Moving, copying, and rotating elements

• Working with planes, axes, and the coordinate system

• Creating smooth and angled corners with fillets and chamfers

• Advanced part modeling with the Loft and Sweep features

• Using the Hole Wizard

• Designing with blocks

• Building assemblies and subassemblies

• Mating parts

• Using design tables

• Adding parts and assemblies to drawings

• Adding dimension notations to a drawing

Certificate

All participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from Tertiary Courses after achieved at least 75% attendance.

Funding and Grant

HRD Corp Claimable Course for Employers Registered with HRD Corp

Course Code: M249

Topic 1. Introduction to SOLIDWORKS

• Launching SOLIDWORKS for the first time

• Navigating in the 3D workspace

• SOLIDWORKS templates

• Saving, renaming, and managing files

Topic 2. SOLIDWORKS Quick Start

• Creating your first 3D part

• Building your first assembly

• Making your first CAD drawing

• Basic steps for 3D modeling

Topic 3. Basic Part Modeling

• Creating sketches

• Understanding relationships

• Using the Extrude feature

• Using the Extruded Cut feature

• Creating revolved features

• Making revolved cuts

• Applying materials, colors, and backgrounds

• Finding mass properties

• System options, units, and templates

Topic 4. Sketch Tools

• Line and Centerline tools

• Using the Rectangle tool

• Circles and arcs

• Slots and ellipses

• Sketching polygons

• Creating text

• Using equations and linked variables

• Using the Spline tool

Topic 5. Modifying Sketches

• Trimming and extending portions of a sketch

• Creating offset geometry

• Moving, copying, and rotating elements

• Erasing, undoing, and redoing actions

• Using the Mirror tools

• Creating repeating patterns in a sketch

• Using construction lines to build robust sketches

• Using the Convert Entities tool

• Adding fillets and chamfers to sketches

Topic 6. Reference Geometry

• Working with planes

• Making an axis

• Creating a coordinate system

Topic 7. Part Modifications

• Adding fillets to a part

• Chamfering edges

• Applying draft

• Using the Shell command

• Using the Mirror command

• Creating linear patterns

• Creating circular patterns

Topic 8. Advanced Part Modeling

• Loft tool

• Refining a lofted shape with guide curves

• Making lofted cuts

• Creating swept shapes

• Making swept cuts

• Using the Wrap command

• Boundary boss and base

• Intersect tool

• Working with configurations

Topic 9. Hole Wizard

• Getting started with the Hole Wizard

• Understanding hole types and standards

• Positioning holes in 3D

Topic 10. Blocks

• Working with reusable sketches and blocks

• Creating blocks

• Designing with blocks

Topic 11. Building Assemblies

• Starting an assembly

• Arranging, copying, moving, and rotating parts in assemblies

• Mating parts together in an assembly

• \Working with subassemblies

• Making linear patterns

• Creating circular patterns

• Using the Toolbox

• Downloading premade parts from the Internet

Topic 12. Advanced Mates

• Working with mate types

• Mating parts with advanced mates

• Mating parts with Path Mate

• Mechanical mates

• Mating parts by aligning planes

Topic 13. In-Context Modeling

• Linking sketches to other parts

• Linking to layout sketches

• Using the Hole Wizard in context

Topic 14. Using Design Tables

• Using design tables

• Working with complex calculations

• Selecting component configurations in an assembly

• Building assemblies with design tables

Topic 15. Part Drawings

• Working with drawing templates

• Setting up drawing options and sheet properties

• Choosing the correct projection angle

• Adding model views to a drawing

Topic 16. Dimensioning

• Creating general dimension notations

• Creating ordinate dimensions

• Dimensioning holes and curved features

• Using the auto-dimension tools

Topic 17. Adding General Annotations

• Adding annotations

• Adding additional views to your drawing

• Adding custom properties

• Linking drawing notes to custom properties

Topic 18. Assembly Drawings

• Adding assemblies to drawings

• Including a bill of materials

• Adding balloons to specify parts on an assembly drawing

• Building an exploded view for an assembly drawing

• Adding in custom properties and revision