solidworks - weldment gap

Just for information for those with no welding-education background, a welding gap is needed, and important. There are several ways to put a welding gap into your design, the easiest one, of course is by cutting your weldment profiles using cut-extrude, more works to do, but it is correct, and will ease your welding assembly.
 There is much much easier way to do this. Actually Solidworks has anticipated your needs of gap, and therefore, equips the command with one extra numerical parameter called G1, unused by default, but can be given number, and the parameter will adjust your design.
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solidworks - viewing mates

I believe every 3d software user had at least several experience with assembly. It's easy to create, but sometimes it will take a significantly long time just to edit, when you decide to change the assembly structure, or when one of the component need to be replaced. The main cause is not in editing, but in finding the exact mate between two components that we need to edit. It might as well become a long painful journey for your tired eyes.

There are several possible solution for this,
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solidworks - delete

Most people know that you can delete lines from a sketch, or features from the Solidworks feature Manager, by pre-electing the object(s) and then simply hitting the DELETE key. But only few had known that over the last 4 years, the programmers have enhanced the intelligence behind the DELETE key, allowing it to react differently according to situations we're in.

Here's how DELETE will act when faced on several different circumstances :
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solidworks - using derived sketch

Derived sketch is one of a good feature that often overlooked. This tool derives a sketch from another sketch that belongs to the same part, or derives a sketch from another sketch in the same assembly! When you derive a sketch from an existing sketch, you are assured that the two sketches will retain the characteristics that they share in common. Every changes that you make to the original sketch are reflected in the derived sketch. Here I will show how to derive a sketch from a sketch in the same part:
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solidworks - creating a forming tool

Not everyone interested in sheetmetal, but I've been looking at sheetmetal products likely such as stamping and curious how the SW users make the design. One thing should be noted is that whatever you bend in the sheetmetal feature, will be available in the flat pattern, so you only need to make the correct design, and you could see the flat pattern with just one click

The only thing that bothers me, is what will we do if we have customized stamping tool,that are not available in SW library? the answer was simple, we can make it and put it in our library
This is how you do it:
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autocad - tips and trick

This is a really ancient software, i consider this as the mother of engineering software
It's simple really, and as the story goes, there's also features to make 3d designs too. I myself wouldn't recommend the 3d, but the 2d autocad is really dependable
basically it's like manual engineering drawing, but with pointer as the pen, and you can make circle without effort. the overall techniques, it's all up to you. You can decide the standards, what to view, and what you don't want to see as free as possible
To use, it's not hard, but if you want to use it nicely, a lot faster, cooler and efficiently, you gotta follow this trick
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solidworks - creating weldment library

Have you ever use standard components like frames, UNP profiles, etc.? To create arrangement of these bars is a simple thing to do in SW. Of course, basically this program has included several standard profiles.But the hard part will come when you need to arrange profiles that are not inside library. So..we must make our own library. I myself learned it just recently from a SW expert's website

Here's how you can do it:

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solidworks - creating and mating gears

This is a useful feature indeed..I meet this feature first on Inventor, and soon getting attached to it.
This feature is an add-ins, so we have to activate it beforehand. I myself set my SW so that this add-ins will instantly active whenever i use Solidworks

Here's how we can do it :
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solidworks - tips and trick

Solidworks is one of 3d design software that is used by many recently. I did use some software, but this one managed to get my attention

Part creation is simple, with auto-constraint similar to autoCad, combined with easy to use animation making, and the most important is the dimension editing that can be done, even in the 3d display.

SOME USEFUL TIPS WHILE WORKING WITH SOLIDWORKS

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