In this article, we'll discuss the functions and uses of the SOLIDWORKS Hatch tool as well as how to use it. The SOLIDWORKS Hatch tool can be used in sketches and drawing views. It can sometimes be useful, depending on your design intent, to have a sketch show a hatch.
A sphere is one of the most fundamental shapes. SOLIDWORKS has multiple ways to create one, but let's walk through the simplest way to make a sphere. We'll cover the basic process, how to make a hollow versus a solid sphere, and give you some ways to continue your SOLIDWORKS learning.
In this example, we've received a part from a different system and we imported it into SOLIDWORKS without any feature history. The part has five fingers, and we need the exact geometry sketch of a finger so we can use it again in another part file. The SOLIDWORKS Intersection Curve tool is the best tool for the job. Everywhere a selected plane intersects a select face/surface, Intersection Curve will make the sketch line for us.
There are situations where you need both a left and right-handed version of a model. Instead of creating two separate models with the same techniques, why not just mirror the part? The process is easy to do and only takes a few clicks. Let's walk through the process of creating a right-handed version of a screw.
Previously, we walked through how to create a helix in SOLIDWORKS. The logical next step would be to use that helix to cut threads. Now, let's walk through how to make threads in SOLIDWORKS. We'll cover a simple threadmaking exercise and create our own custom threads.
A helix is one of the common shapes that you'll need to create in SOLIDWORKS. They let you create uniform profiles for cutting threads. But there are two kinds of helixes in SOLIDWORKS: constant pitched and variable pitched. Let's walk through how to create a helix in SOLIDWORKS and go over the different settings.
In this post, I’m going to help you replace a SOLIDWORKS model in a drawing view or in all model views all at once. Not only that, but following these simple steps, you can replace a part model with an assembly model or vice versa. First, we’ll replace a part with another part.
Would you like to reuse your title block and border information from an already completed .DWG or .DXF file? You can easily import the .DWG or .DXF into SOLIDWORKS and create your new SOLIDWORKS Drawing taking only the information you need copied over.