This post is a part of an extended video series covering the basics of SolidWorks. If you are new to this series, start here.
Some of my students have been asking about close-ups and exploded views. Close-ups are easy enough (they’re actually called “detail views”), but in order to understand exploded views, we need to introduce a concept called “Configurations.” Useful stuff.
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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. |
I need to make a pleated filter in SolidWorks. Just an accordion pleat going in a circle. Any ideas? The filter is going to be 27 inches tall and have 360 pleats. There needs to be about 10 pleats per inch so this would be around 18 inches in diameter.
Thanks
Scott
Thanks for the reply Adam!
Just checked video 13, really useful!.
Have a nice day,
José
Thanks for the tutos Adam!, they’re Great!!.
One question, How good is the workflow for importing and documenting Rhino files within Solidworks? What is the best format in order to import a Rhino file into Solidworks?, and what about Blocks and Layers?.
Thanks in advance Adam,
José
Hi José:
Check out video 13, as that covers a bit of transfer between Rhino and SW. Featureworks is really amazing as well, though I don’t have it on my demo machine.
As for layers and blocks, it will be up to you to recreate those in SolidWorks using folders and assembly components respectively.
While I can definitely help you work out a means of getting Rhino documents into SolidWorks, in general you’ll be better served to just do most of your modeling in SW to begin with. It’s easy to go from SW to Rhino, but much less convenient to go the other way ’round. Rhino is a good sketch tool, but when it comes to creating physical prototypes, I would highly recommend using SW instead.
All the best,
Adam