From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2019 Essential Training
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Making your first CAD drawing - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2019 Essential Training
Making your first CAD drawing
- [Instructor] The third step in the Quick Start Guide is creating a drawing from either a part or an assembly. You can see here I've got a part already opened up on the screen and I'd like to create a basic drawing for that. It's very similar to creating an assembly. If you just go over here under File, Make Drawing from Part, click on that, and as you can see here, we have the option of choosing a template that you'd like to use. Now we've got some predefined templates inside of SolidWorks, you can also add a path to your own company templates if you already have them predefined, or you can save your own templates and then add them to this list. But to get started, let's just go ahead and just go ahead and choose this C size drawing, click on OK, and SolidWorks is going to go ahead and open up that template and give you a few options as far as the different views you'd like to bring in to that drawing. So let's go ahead and just drag and drop. So drag in the front view, just drag it…
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Contents
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Creating sketches6m 44s
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Understanding relationships7m 50s
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Using the Extrude feature5m 52s
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Using the Extruded Cut feature4m 54s
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Creating revolved features4m 8s
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Making revolved cuts3m 19s
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Applying materials, colors, and finishes3m 25s
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Finding mass properties2m 25s
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System options, units, and templates4m 49s
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Working with dimensions5m 12s
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Line and Centerline tools3m 58s
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Using the Rectangle tool3m 59s
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Circles and arcs2m 58s
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Drawing slots2m 34s
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Working with ellipses and conics4m 5s
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Sketching polygons2m 32s
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Creating text5m 48s
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Using equations and linked variables5m 56s
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Using the Spline tool3m 22s
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Equation driven curve2m 19s
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Sketch Ink3m 3s
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Trimming and extending a sketch4m 51s
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Creating offset geometry2m 26s
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Moving, copying, rotating, and scaling3m 25s
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Erasing, undoing, and redoing actions3m
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Using the Mirror tools2m 10s
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Creating repeating patterns in a sketch4m 23s
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Using construction lines4m 28s
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Using the Convert Entities tool2m 26s
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Adding fillets and chamfers to sketches2m 20s
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Loft tool6m 58s
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Lofted shapes with guide curves1m 58s
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Making lofted cuts1m 46s
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Creating swept shapes3m 2s
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Making swept cuts4m 6s
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Using the Wrap command4m 47s
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Boundary Boss/Base3m 47s
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Intersect tool3m 33s
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Working with configurations4m 12s
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Surface tools2m 18s
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Using surfaces to build solid models2m 3s
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Direct Editing: Move/Copy Bodies3m 59s
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Direct Editing: Move Face3m 28s
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Direct Editing: Combine2m 57s
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Direct Editing: Split3m 29s
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Project Curve2m 31s
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Slice tool4m 43s
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