SolidWorks: The Complete Design and Rendering Course

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Defining SolidWorks

Lecture 1: What is SolidWorks?

Lecture 2: File Formats in SolidWorks

Lecture 3: Design Intent

Chapter 3: Getting Started with SolidWorks

Lecture 1: Opening SolidWorks For the First Time

Lecture 2: Starting a New Part

Lecture 3: Opening and Closing Files

Lecture 4: Part Manipulation

Lecture 5: Changing Units

Lecture 6: Saving Files

Chapter 4: User Interface

Lecture 1: Menu Bar Pull Downs

Lecture 2: Command Manager Tabs

Lecture 3: Feature Manager Design Trees

Lecture 4: Heads Up View Toolbars

Lecture 5: Tips and How to Search For Help

Chapter 5: Basic Sketch Tools

Lecture 1: Defining Sketch Planes

Lecture 2: How to Make an Axis

Lecture 3: How to Draw a Line

Lecture 4: How to Draw a Rectangle

Lecture 5: How to Draw a Circle

Lecture 6: How to Draw a Slot

Lecture 7: How to Draw a Arc

Lecture 8: How to Draw a Polygon

Lecture 9: How to Draw a Spline

Lecture 10: How to Draw an Ellipse

Chapter 6: Sketch Relations and Rules

Lecture 1: Under Defined Sketch

Lecture 2: Fully Defined Sketch

Lecture 3: How to Add and Delete Sketch Constraints/Relations

Lecture 4: How to Add Dimensions to a Sketch

Chapter 7: Modify Sketch

Lecture 1: How to Add Sketch Fillet and Chamfer

Lecture 2: How to Trim and Extend a Sketch

Lecture 3: Offset Entities

Lecture 4: Mirror Entities

Lecture 5: Linear and Circular Sketch Pattern

Lecture 6: Move, Copy, Rotate, Scale, and Stretch Entities

Chapter 8: Basic Part Modeling

Lecture 1: Revolved Boss/Base

Lecture 2: Extruded Boss/Base

Lecture 3: Convert Entities and Share Sketch

Lecture 4: Mirror Features

Lecture 5: Fillet and Chamfer

Lecture 6: Extruded Cut

Lecture 7: Revolved Cut

Lecture 8: Circular Pattern

Lecture 9: Linear Pattern

Lecture 10: Sweep Boss/Base

Lecture 11: Swept Cut

Lecture 12: Download the Resources in This Lecture

Lecture 13: Lofted Boss/Base

Lecture 14: Shell

Lecture 15: Finish Nail Polish Body

Lecture 16: Lofted Cut

Lecture 17: Hole Wizard

Lecture 18: Draft

Lecture 19: Warp

Chapter 9: How to Edit a Part

Lecture 1: How to Edit a Sketch

Lecture 2: How to Hide and Show Sketch

Lecture 3: How to Edit Features

Lecture 4: How to Suppress and Unsuppress Feature

Lecture 5: Rollback Feature

Lecture 6: Reorder Features

Chapter 10: Evaluate Part

Lecture 1: Measure Tool

Lecture 2: Mass Properties Tool

Chapter 11: Creating Assembly

Lecture 1: How to Create New Assembly

Lecture 2: How to Insert Component in Assembly

Lecture 3: How to Add Mates

Lecture 4: Component Pattern

Lecture 5: How to Edit Component

Lecture 6: How to Add Appearance/Material

Lecture 7: How to Change Scene

Lecture 8: Assembly Level Features

Lecture 9: How to Create Exploded View

Chapter 12: SolidWorks Drawings

Lecture 1: How to Create Drawing File

Lecture 2: View Layout – Standard 3 Views and Model View

Lecture 3: Projected View

Lecture 4: Auxiliary View

Lecture 5: Section View

Lecture 6: Detail View

Lecture 7: Broken-out Section

Lecture 8: Break

Lecture 9: Crop View

Lecture 10: Annotation – Changing Drawing Scale

Lecture 11: How to Add Centerline and Center Mark

Lecture 12: Edit Sheet Format

Lecture 13: Adding Notes and Adding Annotation