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SOLIDWORKS, Tips 5, New SolidWorks Document, Adding a Folder

Greetings Folks,
Today's posting is on how to create a folder in your "New SolidWorks Document" section. This is actually a very helpful tip as it will help you save valuable amounts of time by having all of your most used Part and Drawing Template files easily accessible when you immediately need them.

GETTING STARTED

ADDING THE FOLDER

IT'S DONE!

SOLIDWORKS, Part Design 7, Lab Exercise 2

Hi there again!
My posting today is about another Bracket Part design. You can use the layout with all the dimensions for your designing practice. Have fun!

SOLIDWORKS, Part Design 6, Lab Exercise 1

Greetings!
Today's exercise is quite interesting as it involves various features such as the creation of additional Planes, Extruded Boss/Base and Cut on a rounded surface, Mirroring items, and the creation of a Rib.

THE LAYOUT

ANOTHER VIEW MODE

SOLIDWORKS, Part Design 5, Sketch Exercise1

Greetings folks, here is a good exercise for you to sharpen your sketching skills or simply to just to refresh your genius mind! It's also great for "killing time", if you are too bored with nothing to do (hmmm...nothing to do? Does it happen to a lot of people?) and are about to grab that TV remote control. Have fun. Email if you are a novice in the field and have any question. Cheers.

Angular Measuring Tool Assembly

Yesterday I posted an entry showing two parts I had designed which together would result into a Measuring tool. Today I want to show you how the tool looks like when both those components are assembled together. This was a very simple Assembly process, all it took me was to Mate both units using the Concentric option. Here it goes, some of the views of the Assembled tool. Smiles.

Angular Measuring Tool

Greetings Folks!
Couple of months ago a Ceramic artist and instructor asked me to help him materialize one of his inventions using a Designing software. It was a tool he had created to help artists (ceramic artists) do angular measurements without having to spend too much time around this task and at the same time to enjoying the benefits of accuracy which this tool would provide. It was a lot of fun to be part of his endeavour. Here it goes, I posted a few views of both parts that make up this tool so you can see it. You will notice that several angular features were used to add the "holes" onto the wooden piece.