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SOLIDWORKS Training: Learn to design

Solidworks Training Description

This course offers a thorough introduction to constraint-based modeling using the latest version of SOLIDWORKS. This Solidworks Training course is much more than a beginner’s class as many have previous experience using Solidworks or other design engineering tools. This workflow-oriented training course focuses on core-modeling skills with respect to manufacturing focus including topics such as sketching, SOLIDWORKS part modeling, assemblies, detail drawings, as well as, basic model management techniques.  Important for changing designs that others may have created. We teach participants how to design products, and change the design as opposed to simply how to use the software. 
 
Upon completion of this Solidworks training course, you or your team will be able to utilize software with confidence, articulate how one would approach a project,  establish 2D detailed drawings, estimate the time to complete a project and create complex parts geometry using Top-Down design ie using master models. Within this Solidworks Training course, participants will also explore Interference issues and mitigate those issues with various techniques imperative for the maturation of the participants.  Ensuring all parts fit together before a physical prototype is built is often a manager’s goal.  Also, a manager’s goal is reducing costs and shortening the overall design cycle time, for a faster introduction to the market. This course includes over fifty comprehensive design tutorials and projects that enable one to practice these new design workflows & skills in order to give users the utmost confidence and experience all within one week.
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Solidworks Training Topics

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  • SOLIDWORKS sketch utilities including 3D curves
  • Cover basic surfacing complete with Sweeps and Lofts
  • Create features: Extrudes, Lofts, Patterns, Shell and Draft
  • Learn to organize yourself for developing a project
  • Use Split-line effectively
  • Create relationships between features using equations & global variables
  • Detail drawings for documentation and assembly detail drawings complete with exploded views
  • Modify features and edit references
  • Utilize Edit Feature and Edit Sketch
  • Engineer Change Orders: Learn to edit parts with certainty that others have modeled
  • Learn to use drawings as design tools for controlling snap fit and accuracy
  • Learn to create and edit assemblies with SOLIDWORKS
  • Learn to use basic render tools
  • Learn to use Top-down Design and leverage the tool appropriately
  • Learn to dissociate to the top-down model so the part can be used without previous associations
  • Conics and rebuilding curves to higher order
  • Introduction into using surfaces as tools to effect solids

Duration & Cost

40 hours = $2850 per student

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Prerequisites

Mechanical aptitude and a desire to learn SOLIDWORKS

solidworks training Projects

  • 24 Various blocks where participants take time to explore a wide variety of basics including global variables and equations 
  • Model and detail the ACCO Swingline desktop stapler
  • Edit parts others have modeled such as the Harley-Davidson Rod
  • Modify an existing assembly of parts with interference issues Vise Assembly
  • Graphically display dimensional status on 2D drawings
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Goals

Solidworks Training
  • Change and modify features, parts, and assemblies
  • Discuss systems options in detail
  • Discuss using surfaces by themselves and within parts
  • Patterns and how to add features to them effectively
  • Discuss several Top-down modeling approaches for developing products
  • How to design mechanisms

Video Training Delivery System

Ask your Design Engine account manager about our Training Delivery System(TDS), an easy-to-follow guide for designers and engineers who want a supplement to this course. 

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