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* Advanced Parts

WHAT IS THE ADVANCED PARTS CLASS?

This two-day training course goes beyond standard prismatic parts, to teach you how to create parts with organic shapes. You will learn advanced modeling techniques and features that will help you transition easily over to surface modeling. Some of the advanced techniques covered in the course include:

  • Sweeps, lofts and boundary features
  • Creating helical sweeps to create threaded features
  • Splines
  • Blending 2D sketches into 3D geometry

 

WHO IS THE ADVANCED PARTS COURSE DESIGNED FOR?

Ideally, the Advanced Parts course is perfect for you if you are an intermediate or slightly advanced user who wants to expand on your knowledge of SOLIDWORKS, past creating geometry using basic extrusions and revolved features.

 

WHY SHOULD I TAKE THIS COURSE FROM DASI SOLUTIONS?

Step out of your comfort zone and get past simple extrusions and revolves. In this course, DASI’s certified instructors will help you quickly go from a beginner to intermediate SOLIDWORKS user, or from intermediate to advanced in just one class!

 

HOW MUCH DOES THIS COURSE COST?

Standard classroom training costs $600 per student.

 

*This course is part of the curriculum for the DASI Solutions Apprenticeship Program, certified by the U.S. Department of Labor.

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TRAINING CLASS AGENDA

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1 Multibody Design Techniques

Hide/Show Tree Items 
Multibody Design Techniques 
Solid Bodies Folder 
Local Operations 
The Feature Scope
Patterning Bodies 
Tool Body Technique 
How to Combine Bodies 
Intersect with Solid Bodies 
Indent Feature 
Deleting Solid Bodies in SOLIDWORKS Parts

2 Saving Solid Bodies

Multibody Part vs Assembly 
Saving Bodies Functions
How to Insert into New Part 
Saving Bodies 
Modeling Parts for Rapid Tooling
Splitting a Part into Multiple Bodies 
How to Automate an Assembly 
Using Split Part with Legacy Data 

3 Sketching with Splines

Curves in Sketches 
Using Sketch Pictures
Splines in SOLIDWORKS
Adding Spline Relations
How to Change the Shape of a Spline 
Fully Defining Splines
Evaluating Splines 
Analyzing Solid Geometry
Style Spline
Fit Spline 

4 Introduction to Sweeping

Sweeping in SOLIDWORKS
Sweep with Guide Curves 
The Selection Manager 

5 3D Sketching and Curve Features

Curve Features
How to Sweep Along a 3D Path
3D Sketching
Helix Curve
Creating a 3D Curve from Orthogonal Views
Projected Curve Feature
Combining Curves 
Smoothing Transitions 

 

 

  

6 Threads and Library Feature Parts

Bottle Features
How to Save a Library Feature Part 
Performance Considerations
Creating the Sweep Path
Sweeping Along Model Edges 

7 Advanced Sweeping

Sweep Options 
Additional Sweep Settings
Profile Orientation 
The Intersection Curve Feature 
Visualizing Sweep Sections 
Solid Profile

8 Introduction to Loft and Boundary
Features

Comparing Complex Features in SOLIDWORKS
How Lofting and Boundary Work 
The Loft Feature 
The Boundary Feature 
Copying a Sketch 
How to Modify a Sketch 
Derived Sketches 
Boundary Preview Options 
Sketch Block and Library Feature Profiles 

9 Advanced Loft and Boundary
Features

Additional Curves in Loft and Boundary 
Centerline Lofting
Loft Preview Options 
Adding Sketch Segments 
Cleaning up a Model 
Deleting Faces 
Evaluating Edges 
Face Fillets 
Curve Influence 

10 Advanced Filleting and Other
Features

Fillet Settings 
Fillet Parameters 
Constant Size Fillets 
Delete Face: Delete and Fill
Fillet Options 
Variable Size Fillets 
Face Fillets 
FilletXpert 
The Wrap Feature 
The Deform Feature 
Direct Editing