SolidWorks Class 101: coffee maker – video 00 of 16 from Adam OHern on Vimeo.
SolidWorks has become one of the most ubiquitous CAD packages in the consumer product design industry. Its primary competitor is ProEngineer, though it belongs to an entire class of 3D packages called “parametric solid modelers”.
Though great strides have been made in recent years, most parametric CAD packages still have a steep learning curve. Each has its own advantages and weaknesses, but parametric CAD user interfaces are almost universally chunky, awkward, and inconsistent. SolidWorks is a rare exception to this rule. SolidWorks has significant limitations, but for most users it makes up for them in ease of use.
In this in-depth video tutorial series, we’ll get you up and running as an Industrial Designer in SolidWorks. The key to success in parametric modeling is to adhere religiously to the ‘KISS’ method, and in these videos I will demonstrate a wide variety of tools and techniques that will help to simplify your history tree and make updates more reliable and efficient.
We will be focusing on class-a surfacing methods that will help lead up to future projects with more challenging surfacing requirements. Many of the methods used here may seem strange to anyone accustomed to ‘solid’ based modeling. Fear not, solid lovers! There is a method to the madness.
The class is broken into three parts:
- Video 01: User Interface Tour
- Video 02: the Carafe Revolve
- Video 03: the Pour Spout
- Video 04: the Carafe assembly component
- Video 05: other Master Form surfaces
- Video 06: the Handle component
- Video 07: other assembly components
- Video 08: plunger bottom plate
- Video 09: plunger top plate
- Video 10: other plunger parts
- Video 11: the basic lid
- Video 12: coil spring
- Video 13: lid details
- Video 14: embossed logo from illustrator
- Video 15: assembly constraints and animation
- Video 16: export to modo, setup basics
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Adam O'Hern is an industrial design consultant specializing in visual brand languages, and has designed products ranging from laptops to power tools, classroom toys to bathroom fixtures, and robots to lint rollers. He has published with 3DWorld Magazine, CGTuts+, and Luxology, and works with Josh Mings of SolidSmack.com on EngineerVsDesigner.com. |
wow,that much of Solidworks stuff and just a few NX tutorials, that’s not fair, sir
Haha, Sorry Kanishk!
There will be more NX stuff on the way in the coming months :)
Adam
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Adam-
These tutorials are outstanding. I’ve been using solidworks -self taught- for several years, almost exclusively for simple machine design. Your tutorials have helped me not only with surfacing but also learning quite a few “best practices” that extend beyond surfacing. I’ve been through something like 12 of them so far, starting to watch some of them a second time. Keep ‘em coming!
Thanks.
You are doing a very decent, fine and good job and in by doing so you instruct as well as inspire others.
Thank you