Creating Fillets using Hold Lines

Posted on September 8th, 2008 in Fillets, Models, SolidWorks by The SW Geek

Another week is upon us, it’s time to knock those cobwebs out of your head and get ready to learn some more cool stuff. Last week, I went over a couple of fillet tricks that I hope you enjoyed and this week I am doing more of the same. One of my favorite fillet tricks is using Hold Lines with Face Fillets. Hold lines allow you to better control how you fillet your part by specifying the tangent lines for a fillet rather then the radius. Today, we’ll look at two ways hold lines can be used.

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Building a Stapler - The Base

Posted on July 25th, 2008 in Assemblies, Customize, Design Tutorial, Instant3D, Productivity, Sketches, SolidWorks, Stapler, ToolBars by The SW Geek

For weeks now I have been staring at the stapler on my desk thinking “This would be so much fun to model.” A stapler has everything; formed parts, machined parts, sheet metal parts, springs, rivets and injection molded parts. What better way to put to use some of the tools and concepts we have explored together? Every week we will build another component of the stapler until we have all the components that make the assembly. After the stapler is built, maybe can use it to try out some other functions of SolidWorks. Today we are going to begin with the base of the stapler since this is the foundation of the whole assembly.

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DimXpert - Feature Selector

Posted on July 14th, 2008 in Dimensions, SolidWorks, ToolBars by admin

Hey Kids! Here we are at a start of another fun filled week. To start things off this week we are going to continue our tour of the DimXpert command. Last week we began exploring the DimXpert tool with with the now famous posts: Introduction to the DimXpertManager and DimXpert Datums, Sizes and Locations. This week I decided to do something different for this subject only. Since the DimXpert has soooo many topics that need to be covered, I will break up the post to make room for other topics. I would hate for you to get burnt out on such a great tool.

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