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Secretariat committee;
Mr. Mohamad Ikhwan Zaini Ridzwan,
Dr. Mohd Salman Abu Mansor,
Mr. Wan Amri Wan Mamat Ali,
Mr. Norijas Abd Aziz,
Mr. Hishammudin Endan
Ms. Rosmawati Mohamath
Ms. Siti Farah Aida Zolhani
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
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Tutorial 4.2: Vary Sketch option ........................................................................ 63
Exercises 4.1: Curve Driven Pattern.................................................................. 64
Swept....................................................................................................................... 65
Tutorial 4.3: Creating a Worm Gear .................................................................. 66
Tutorial 4.4: Creating a Spring........................................................................... 67
Tutorial 4.5: Creating a Bottle (with a guide curve).......................................... 68
Lofted ...................................................................................................................... 69
Tutorial 4.6: Create lofted part with Centerline Parameters ........................... 70
Exercises 4.2: Chisel .......................................................................................... 72
Rib and Shell........................................................................................................... 76
Tutorial 4.7: Using Shell to create wall thickness inside the Bottle................ 77
Module 6: Drawing.................................................................................................... 96
Drawing toolbars..................................................................................................... 97
Insert standard drawing views - Angle of projections........................................... 97
Insert Component into Drawing............................................................................. 98
Adding dimensions to drawing and modifying dimensions ............................... 100
Create Section View.............................................................................................. 101
Insert a Note ......................................................................................................... 105
Edit Sheet Format................................................................................................. 106
Assembly Drawing ................................................................................................ 112
Elements of an Assembly Drawing ...................................................................... 112
Example of Assembly Drawing............................................................................. 112
Opening drawing template and edit Sheet Format ............................................ 113
Adding the Exploded View.................................................................................... 114
Creating Bill of Materials (BOMs) ........................................................................ 115
Customizing BOMs ............................................................................................... 116
AutoBalloons......................................................................................................... 116
Producing an e-drawing file ................................................................................. 118
Exercises 6.1:.................................................................................................... 119
References ..............................................................................................................120
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In SolidWorks, a part, an assembly, and a drawing are all fully associated. Changes
to the model are automatically reflected in the associated drawings and
assemblies. Likewise, when you make change to the drawing and assembly, those
changes will be reflected back to the model.
Starting a SolidWorks
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The interface is native Windows interface, and such behaves in the same manner
as other Windows applications.
CommandManager
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.
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Toolbars menus
Example of a Toolbar
You can turn toolbars on and off using one of three methods.
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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.
Manually
With a design table
Manually, and has an explode state
With a design table, and has explode state
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Keyboard shortcuts
o Rotate part or assembly – Holding down the middle button and drag
the mouse
o Zoom all document types – Hold down the Shift key while
depressing the middle button and moving the mouse.
(Simply rotates the wheel of the middle mouse button for zooming in
or out if your middle mouse button is a wheel.)
o Pan all document types – Hold down the Ctrl key while depressing
the middle button and drag the mouse.
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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.
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• 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.
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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)
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Sketch Entities/Geometry
SolidWorks offers a rich variety of sketch tools for creating profile geometry.
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
Under constrained
Fully constrained
(when more
constraints and
2. Black dimensions are
added to the sketch
– the sketch
become completely
defined)
Over constrained
(adding any
3. Red 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 pop-
out 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.
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For an instance:
• 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.
6. Sketch active.
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7. Sketch lines
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3 4
5 6
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9. Linear dimensions.
Using the dimension tool, create the angular dimension shown and set the value to
125°.
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11. Fillets.
Click OK.
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Double click on 125° and modify to 110°. You’ll see that other dimensions remain
unchanged.
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Modified part
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4. Click Circle from the Sketch toolbar. Sketch a circle centered at the
origin. Give dimension as illustrated.
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.
Parameters
This box allows you to define the
number of sides. Other
parameters will automatically
update when this parameter is
modified.
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3
4
5 6
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Tutorial 1.3: Sketch part using Lines, 3 Point Arc, Tangent Arc and apply Add Relations between Sketch Entities
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8
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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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6. Select both Centerline and Origin Point (press Ctrl key while selecting) and
choose Midpoint as their relations.
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12. Click Circle from the Sketch toolbar with the diameter is 20 mm at the
13. Click Linear Pattern from Tools – Sketch Tools drop down
menus.
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16. Editing
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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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Coincident
Horizontal
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8. Select Mirror from the sketch toolbar and mirror the entity with respect to the
vertical Centerline.
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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
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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.
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Create a new sketch using Insert, Sketch or by clicking the Sketch tool.
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8. Add dimensions.
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Cut Feature
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Holes
19. Change the view orientation. Press the spacebar and double-click *Top.
20. Hole.
Click the Hole tab and set the properties of the hole as follows:
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Filleting
Set a radius = 10 mm
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25. Add fillets at selected edges and face, radius 2.5 mm, and using Full preview.
Chamfering
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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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10
R20 fillet
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Exercise 3.3: Create this part using the information and dimensions provided.
Sketch and extrude profiles to create the part. (10 minutes)
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Trimming
Mirror
Complete part
Set the material to PVC Rigid (density=1300kg/m3) and find the mass of the tee.
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Revolved features
Axis of Revolution
Revolve Type
• One-Direction
• Mid-Plane Angle
• Two-Direction
It controls the revolve
thickness
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Tutorial 4.1:
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.
But remember, the commands are only enable when you have multi body parts.
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1 2 3 4
1 4
2 3
Offset 5 mm
5 6 7 8
Swept
Sample of applications:
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Completed part
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Sketch a Circle
5 6 7
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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.
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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12. Select sketches. You have to make sure that all the selected points are at the
same corner.
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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 is a special type of extruded feature created from open or closed sketched
contours. It adds material of a specified thickness in a specified direction between
the contour and an existing part. You can create a rib using single or multiple
sketches.
Rib
Rib
4. Click OK
Shell tool hollows out a part, leaves open the faces you select, and creates thin-
walled features on the remaining faces. If you do not select any face on the model,
you can shell a solid part, creating a closed, hollow model. You can also shell a
model using multiple thicknesses.
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Tutorial 4.7: Using Shell to create wall thickness inside the Bottle
1 2 3
4 5 6
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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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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
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Fixed
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4. Mate the faces of these two components (Bracket – C Link) and select Coincident
1
Coincident
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1
2
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6. Mating components (select U Bolt’s right leg and Bracket’s 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.
1 2
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.
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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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
21. Make sure the assembly in its exploded view (not collapsed).
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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.
2. Select Drawing icon and then OK.
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
Drawing
Sketch
Annotation
5. In the drawing space, right-click and select Properties from the menu.
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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
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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13. Select Annotation – Model Items, and in Dimensions tab, click Marked for
Drawing
Marked for
Drawing
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15. Select the Section View Tool from the Drawing group.
1 2
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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
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 2 Enable the box to show in
exploded state
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Customizing BOMs
1 2
Click on the
Part Number Edit the title box
cell, and to read PART
select NAME
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
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Circular –
Triangular –
Hexagon –
Item number
Circular split line –
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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References
1. William E. Howard and Joseph C. Musto, (2006). Introduction to Solid Modeling
using SolidWorks. McGraw-Hill International Edition. ISBN 007-124956-7.
4. Frederick E. Giesecke, Alva Mitchell, Henry Cecil Spencer, Ivan Leroy Hill, John
Thomas Dygdon and James E. Novak, (2003). Technical Drawing 12th Edition.
Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-178446-3.
8. http://www.solidworks.com/
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