Product Design using SolidWorks®

Lesson 7.
What is contained within this Lesson:

• How to create, edit, save and set-up Drawing Templates and Sheet Formats.
• Producing 'Standard Three-View Drawings
• Inserting 'Named' and 'Current Views' into Drawings.
• Dimensioning Drawings. Three Methods - Inserting Model Items, Manual Dimensioning, and Ordinate Dimensioning.
• Creating Sectioned Views with associated Hatching in Drawings
• Using 'More Properties' to use different configurations, e.g. Exploded Configuration.
• Wireframe, Hidden Lines, and Shaded views.
• Tangent Edges.
• Inserting/ Adding New Sheets
• Inserting an Automatic Bill of Materials (hint: anchor point) and Balloon Referencing.

Exercises, both compulsory and practice are used to cover the above areas and are a requsite to accurate, fully defined parametric modelling.