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Learn SOLIDWORKS

You're reading from   Learn SOLIDWORKS Get up to speed with key concepts and tools to become an accomplished SOLIDWORKS Associate and Professional

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801073097
Length 676 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Tayseer Almattar Tayseer Almattar
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Table of Contents (26) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1 – Getting Started
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to SOLIDWORKS FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Interface and Navigation 4. Section 2 – 2D Sketching
5. Chapter 3: SOLIDWORKS 2D Sketching Basics 6. Chapter 4: Special Sketching Commands 7. Section 3 – Basic Mechanical Core Features – Associate Level
8. Chapter 5: Basic Primary One-Sketch Features 9. Chapter 6: Basic Secondary Multi-Sketch Features 10. Section 4 – Basic Evaluations and Assemblies – Associate Level
11. Chapter 7: Materials and Mass Properties 12. Chapter 8: Standard Assembly Mates 13. Section 5 – 2D Engineering Drawings Foundation
14. Chapter 9: Introduction to Engineering Drawings 15. Project 1: 3D-Modeling a Pair of Glasses 16. Chapter 10: Basic SOLIDWORKS Drawing Layout and Annotations 17. Chapter 11: Bill of Materials 18. Section 6 – Advanced Mechanical Core Features – Professional Level
19. Chapter 12: Advanced SOLIDWORKS Mechanical Core Features 20. Chapter 13: Equations, Configurations, and Design Tables 21. Section 7 – Advanced Assemblies – Professional Level
22. Chapter 14: SOLIDWORKS Assemblies and Advanced Mates 23. Chapter 15: Advanced SOLIDWORKS Assemblies Competencies 24. Project 2: 3D-Modeling an RC Helicopter Model 25. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding features in SOLIDWORKS

SOLIDWORKS features are our way of moving from 2D to 3D. Similar to sketches, SOLIDWORKS provides many features that can help us create simple shapes. For more complex shapes, we will have to use more features. In this section, we will discuss SOLIDWORKS features, simple versus complex models, and additional sketch planes.

Understanding SOLIDWORKS features and their role in 3D modeling

Features is the term we use to refer to the tools that allow us to construct 3D models based on sketches. We usually use features directly after sketching to go from two-dimensional sketches to 3D models, which are mostly built based on sketches.

For example, if we were to model a cube, we would follow these steps:

  1. First, we would create a sketch of a square.
  2. Then, we would apply a feature in order to make the square into a cube. We do this by extruding it.

The following screenshot illustrates these two steps:

Figure...

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