SOLIDWORKS SYLLABUS

Volume: I
Introduction to Solidworks

What is Solidworks?

Application Programming Interface, Kernels, Solidworks Corporation

Solidworks Product Line

What is Feature based, Parametric Solid Modeling?

What is Fully associative solid modeling?

What is Design Intent?

Factors affecting Design Intent

Modeling Methodology

Solidworks User Interface

Menus, Toolbars, Keyboard Shortcuts, mouse buttons

Feature Manager Design Tree, Property Manager, Command Manager

System Feedback, Confirmation Corner

System Options, Document Properties
Volume: II
Introduction to Sketching

How to create a new Solidworks document? File extensions.

Filing the document

Unit setting

How to insert a new sketch?

Different sketch entities and methodology of sketching

Inference lines and Automatic Relations

Cursor feedback, Turn off the active tool, Different Status of sketches

Governing rules for sketches

Adding Sketch Relations and Dimensions (Automatically and Manually)

Adding Fillets and Chamfers to Sketch

Spline tools

Introduction to Basic Part Modeling

What is Base and Boss features?

Choosing the Best Profile

Sketch Plane Selection

Create Extruded Feature (Adding Material) and renaming of Features

Hole wizard

Create Cut Feature (Removing material)

View orientations, Section view and Display options

Filleting and Filleting Rules

Applying Material Property and Textures

How to change Parameters?

Boss Feature with Draft

End Condition

Using Model edges in a sketch and Sketch on a Planar face

Copy & Paste Features

Link Values

Equations

Contour Selection Tool
Volume: III
Part Symmetry

Symmetry in Sketch

Measuring

Symmetry through Relation

Body Symmetry

Thin Feature Creation using Extrusion
Patterning

Linear Pattern

Circular Pattern

Table Driven Pattern

Sketch Driven Pattern


Curve Driven Pattern

Skip Instances, Geometry Pattern, Vary Sketch options
Library Feature

Design Library

Organizing Library

Create Library Feature

Insert Library Feature
Revolved Features

Rules governing sketches of Revolved Features

Revolved Feature creation
Volume: IV
Mass Properties,

Mass Property checking

Custom Properties

Create custom material database

Equations

Renaming the Parameters
COSMOSXpress for Analysis (Finite Element Analysis Tool)

Unit selection

Material selection

Restraint conditions

Loading conditions

Analysis

Factor of Safety Plot

Vonmises Stress Plot

Deformed shape

HTML Report Generation

Updating of model

Shelling and Ribs

Draft Analysis

Rollback Bar

Adding Draft

Shelling

Reference Plane Creation

Rib Creation
Configurations of Parts and Part Editing

Create Design Table

Edit Design Table

Design Table Controls

Manually Adding Configurations

Configuration Manager

Manually Suppress the features

Uses of Configuration

What is wrong?

Check sketch for feature

Dangling Dimensions and relations

Display / Delete Relations

GOTO Option

Reordering of Features

Edit Sketch and Sketch Plane

Parent Child Relation
Volume: V
Bottom Up Assembly

Create New Assembly

Locate Component

Position of the First Component

Degrees of Freedom

State of Component and Instance Number

Insert components


Moving and Rotating of Components

Standard Mating Conditions

Mate Property Manager

Mate Pop-up Toolbar

Mate Group

Mate using Reference Geometry

How to use Part Configuration in Assembly

Create Copies of Instance

Component Hiding and Transparency

Component Property and View Property

Sub Assemblies

Smart Mate Technology

Mass Property Calculation

Static and Dynamic Interference Detection

Edit Dimensions of a Component in Assembly

Physical Dynamics

Physical Simulation (Kinematic Analysis Tool)

Exploded Assemblies and Explode Line Sketch

Animated Exploded Views
Volume: VI
Drawing Creation

Detailing (Create Production Drawing)

Preparations for Detailing

Drawing Sheet Format

Drawing Sheet Setup
View Creation

Model viewer

Standard Three view

Projected view

Auxiliary view

Broken view


Relative view

Cut way view

Flattened view (Sheet Metal Components)

Section view

Offset Section view

Aligned Section View

Detail view

Broken-Out Section view

Cropped view

Empty view

Pre Defined view
View setting

Tangent edge display

Hiding view

View alignment

Center mark and Center lines
Dimensioning

Dimensions and Dimension Manipulations

Driving and Driven dimensions

Dimension Display Options

Align Dimensions

Dimension Properties

Adding Annotations Like Notes, Weld Symbols, Balloons, etc.,

Customizing Sheet Properties

Linked Notes

Insert OLE Objects
Drawing setting

Template Creation

Drawing Settings

Assembly views

Alternate Position view


Hide components

Exploded Assembly view

Auto Ballooning

BOM Creation and BOM template creation

BOM creation with Excel and without Excel

Hole table creation

Revision Table creation

Detached Drawing Creation

Change the Drawing Reference

Generating E-Drawing Data

Animation

Mark up

Dynamic Section

Measuring

Drawing specific options

Assembly specific options

Other file types

Using OLE