Learning SOLIDWORKS : For Students, Engineers, and Designers

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction to SOLIDWORKS

Lecture 2: User Interface of SOLIDWORKS

Lecture 3: Customizing Command Managers and Toolbars in SOLIDWORKS

Chapter 2: Drawing Sketches For Solid Models

Lecture 1: Starting a New File and Opening an Existing one in SOLIDWORKS

Lecture 2: Entering the Sketching Environment

Lecture 3: Creating Line, Centerline, and Midpoint Line

Lecture 4: Creating Circles

Lecture 5: Creating Arcs

Lecture 6: Creating Rectangles

Lecture 7: Creating Polygons

Lecture 8: Creating Splines

Lecture 9: Creating Slots

Lecture 10: Placing Points

Lecture 11: Creating Ellipses and Elliptical Arcs

Lecture 12: Creating Parabolic and Conic Curves

Lecture 13: Creating Equation Driven Curves

Lecture 14: Drawing Display Tools

Lecture 15: Deleting Sketching Entities

Lecture 16: Practice Example 1

Lecture 17: Practice Example 2

Lecture 18: Practice Example 3

Chapter 3: Editing and Modifying Sketches

Lecture 1: Trimming Entities

Lecture 2: Extending Entities

Lecture 3: Convert Entities Tool

Lecture 4: Creating Intersection Curves

Lecture 5: Filleting Entities

Lecture 6: Creating Chamfers

Lecture 7: Offsetting Entities

Lecture 8: Offset on Surface Tool

Lecture 9: Mirroring Entities

Lecture 10: Dynamically Mirror Entities

Lecture 11: Moving Entities

Lecture 12: Rotating Entities

Lecture 13: Scaling Entities

Lecture 14: Stretching Entities

Lecture 15: Copying and Pasting Entities

Lecture 16: Creating Linear Patterns

Lecture 17: Creating Circular Patterns

Lecture 18: Modifying Sketch Patterns

Lecture 19: Splitting Entities

Lecture 20: Writing Text

Lecture 21: Practice Example 1

Lecture 22: Practice Example 2

Lecture 23: Practice Example 3

Chapter 4: Adding Relations and Dimensions to Sketches

Lecture 1: Adding Relations

Lecture 2: Adding Automatic Relations

Lecture 3: Dimensioning a Sketch and Smart Dimension Tool

Lecture 4: Adding Horizontal and Vertical Dimensions

Lecture 5: Aligned Dimensions

Lecture 6: Angular Dimensions

Lecture 7: Adding Diametric Dimensions

Lecture 8: Adding Radial Dimensions

Lecture 9: Adding Linear Diametric Dimensions

Lecture 10: Adding Ordinate Dimensions

Lecture 11: Practice Example 1

Lecture 12: Practice Example 2

Chapter 5: Advanced Dimensioning Techniques and Base Feature Options

Lecture 1: Fully Defining the Sketches

Lecture 2: Dimensioning the True Length of an Arc

Lecture 3: Measuring Distances

Lecture 4: Determining the Section Properties of Closed Sketches

Lecture 5: Modifying the View Orientation

Lecture 6: Changing the View Orientation using the Reference Triad

Lecture 7: Displaying the model in different Viewport configurations

Lecture 8: Display Modes of a Model

Lecture 9: Assigning Materials to the Model

Chapter 6: Creating Reference Geometries

Lecture 1: Need for creating Planes

Lecture 2: Creating Offset Planes and Parallel Planes passing through a Point

Lecture 3: Creating planes at angle to an existing plane and passing through Lines, Points

Lecture 4: Creating a plane normal to a curve and in the middle of two faces

Lecture 5: Creating a plane on non-planar surface

Lecture 6: Creating Reference Axes

Lecture 7: Creating Reference Points

Lecture 8: Creating Reference Coordinate Systems

Lecture 9: Creating Center of Mass

Lecture 10: Practice Example 1

Chapter 7: Part Modeling 1

Lecture 1: Creating Extruded Features

Lecture 2: Creating Revolved Features

Lecture 3: Creating Extruded Cuts

Lecture 4: Creating Revolved Cuts

Lecture 5: Determining the Mass Properties of Solid Models

Lecture 6: Dynamically Rotating the View of a Model

Chapter 8: Part Modeling – Practice Examples

Lecture 1: Practice Example 1

Lecture 2: Practice Example 2

Lecture 3: Practice Example 3

Lecture 4: Practice Example 4

Lecture 5: Practice Example 5

Chapter 9: Advance Part Modeling – Practice Examples

Lecture 1: Practice Example 1

Lecture 2: Practice Example 2

Lecture 3: Practice Example 3

Lecture 4: Practice Example 4

Lecture 5: Practice Example 5