Product Design using SolidWorks®

Lesson 1.
A copy of the Powerpoint slides is available here in Adobe Acrobat format: Lesson1.pdf
 - Required Reading -

What is contained within this Lesson:

• Introduction and rationale for Parametric Modelling and Design
• How to go about modelling a given object or prodcut. Choosing the initial Sketch Plane (Top, Front, Right)
• Centering on the Origin
• How to Sketch properly. Steps 1 to 7.
  Fully Defining Sketches
  Using Relations as opposed to Dimensions
  Obtaining and Changing Properties.
• How to Draw using SolidWorks
  Learning the FeatureManager/ Design Tree.

Basic modelling of standard objects will be used as support exercises using all of the above points of information.