David Brown is a Training Engineer working out of our Beaverton, OR office. He is a Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional Instructor with over twenty years of manufacturing, design, and educational experience. When he is not teaching SOLIDWORKS, you can find him at the beach, hiking in the mountains, or making music.
Do you have a PDF of a drawing that you would like to bring in to SOLIDWORKS? Perhaps you have legacy data or client information that you need to convert to 3D, and all you have is a PDF. If you could just bring that information into SOLIDWORKS... it would save you a lot of time, and that would be awesome! In this blog, you will learn a mind-blowing yet simple technique that will save you time going from PDF to 3D in SOLIDWORKS!
This blog and accompanying video series will illustrate some very simple methods for creating a basic parametric bookcase that is easily configurable into many shapes and sizes with minor adjustments to just a few dimensions. In Part 1 we will create the bookcase using Top-Down Assembly Modeling technique. Part 2 will use a multi-body part environment to create the book case, and utilize the cut-list generated from the Weldment Feature. The concepts that will be discussed are basic but will illustrate some very powerful techniques using SolidWorks.
Sketching in 3D can be challenging, but it is a very powerful tool once you understand the basics. It is especially useful when creating weldment parts like this workbench. This example will demonstrate how to create a 3D sketch that will govern the overall size of this welded frame workbench.
I have a passion that is not based in a technical world like my passion for SolidWorks and Design is. It is a lifelong artistic passion of playing drums, beginning at age 6. So, naturally, it only makes sense that at some point the two paths would cross. The result is me spending my weekends “nerding out” on modeling my drums in SolidWorks.
Sometimes the vast library of weldment profiles included with SOLIDWORKS just doesn't have the special profile I need for my project. I was mocking up a layout of a conveyor system for a shop the other day that I planned to use a purchased conveyor system for the design, and wanted to figure out the amount of conveyor rails I would need.
