This instructional series is absolutely awesome. I'm fairly new to Solidworks and your clear, concise instruction is great! Thanks so much for the effort you put into these.
I'm a retired tool maker used solidworks 2003, I like your method of teaching also the shortcts in the software. Thank you for your effort, and contribution.
Thank you for all your videos and sharing your knowledge with everyone. I wished I had taking your class when I was first learning SolidWorks, because I picked up some really bad habits with the instructor that was teaching the class. Thank you again!
There are many people reporting issues with the mirror feature in solidworks 2020 and it looks like dassault has no plan to fix it only you update to 2023
Excellent Tutorial. What is the difference betweenn the shell tool and the offset entities. In precious tutorials, instead of using the shell tool we used the offset entities tool instead.
I have been practicing the exercises for two days, but I just had a problem with using the hole wizard tool in exercise 4. The issue was related to the fact that I'm using MMGS, to solve it I simply had to check "show custom sizing" in the settings and change all "in" to "mm". I truly appreciate the videos, this is really a free distance learning course. THANKS A LOT!
Hey there, did you manually converted from IN to MM? or is there a function to change it from In to MM? Can't find it ! Cheers Edit: Just had to change the 'Standard' to ISO :)
To snap to the center of the arc at ~ 11:00 , you can add a point. Additionally, you can put your first point of the construction line on the bottom, then hover over the arc and it will wake up a reference.
So, the angle in a chamfer(@35:02) is incremental from the last surface, which was at 25 degrees? That (chamfer)surface actually created the edge we are chamfering now. It is somewhat confusing, There should be some kind of parameter window with choice about the angle being measured from top surface(in absolute or incremental angle) or from the chamfer surface, which was created at 25 degrees (also choice of absolute or incremental angle). Same goes fro the size of the chamfer. Why? Because chamfer size is measured from top surface down, so why the angle doesn't follow same scheme?...which would actually make the angle at (minus) -35 degrees in absolute from the top surface/X coordinate axis, or 55 degrees absolute from the X coordinate axis/top surface. Can you , please, confirm, that it is always the same way-e.i measured down from top surface and angle incremental from the side surface.???......I am just wandering how do you then decide, if the 2 surfaces (top one and the chamfered surface) are not paralel to any mayor axis or soordinate surface!?
35:00 I found that typing .181 in that direction (25deg draft) will result in .164 in the horizontal direction, not .181 like in the drawing. Is there anyway to specify .181 referenced horizontally directly?
At 43:20 You put .371 from center to the rectangular. But on the sketch is different, there You have .371 from center to center of rectangular, so was it Your mistake?
He's correct. The .371 is from center of the arc to the bottom of the rectangle. It's a bit hard to see because the rectangular extrude cut is the upper rectangle in the drawing, while the lower one is the fillet.
Sir, will you update the whole Solidworks beginner series, or will you stop here. I have been going through your videos and it helped me a lot. I have completed till E4, waiting for E5 2020 if it comes out. Thank you for updating this wonderful series.
Hi Dan, Good catch! I mention in my E1 video that I don't go through every step in the labs, as students are supposed to be doing them on their own. Also, when I grade the labs, missed items like that allow me to gage my students to see if the are over-reliant on the lab videos so that I can get them more help. The goal is for student to be able to complete the labs without assistance, as in the real world we don't always have a video to help us with our job. Also, I am only human, even though I wrote these lessons, I still make mistakes from time-to-time. if you download the L5b parts you can find the original L4 part file (assuming you're talking abut L4) to compare to yours. Best regards, CS
When you created the plane normal to the vertex of the curve....could you also accomplish the same thing by changing the perspective to be normal to the vertex by hitting space and then left or right? Since the curve was referenced to the center of the model I would think that the vertex of it is perpendicular to the center of the part.
This instructional series is absolutely awesome. I'm fairly new to Solidworks and your clear, concise instruction is great! Thanks so much for the effort you put into these.
Just did your tutorials over the last two days. Brilliant. No more fumbling around with solid works I feel comfortable now
Now if you could do one for CATIA I would be very happy
Great to hear!
I'm a retired tool maker used solidworks 2003, I like your method of teaching also the shortcts in the software.
Thank you for your effort, and contribution.
the best Solidworks tutorials ever. It's much better than I had at colledge. Thank you so much!
Thank you for all your videos and sharing your knowledge with everyone. I wished I had taking your class when I was first learning SolidWorks, because I picked up some really bad habits with the instructor that was teaching the class. Thank you again!
There are many people reporting issues with the mirror feature in solidworks 2020 and it looks like dassault has no plan to fix it only you update to 2023
Excellent Tutorial. What is the difference betweenn the shell tool and the offset entities. In precious tutorials, instead of using the shell tool we used the offset entities tool instead.
Thank you so so so much for these amazing videos. They're extremely detailed and well done.
I love watching these have learnt so MUCH with these helpful courses
You are an awesome teacher! Thank you very much for these videos
Thank you for the effort and your time helping in professional way how to use solidworks.
this tut series is gold right here. Big up man.
I have been practicing the exercises for two days, but I just had a problem with using the hole wizard tool in exercise 4. The issue was related to the fact that I'm using MMGS, to solve it I simply had to check "show custom sizing" in the settings and change all "in" to "mm".
I truly appreciate the videos, this is really a free distance learning course. THANKS A LOT!
Hey there, did you manually converted from IN to MM? or is there a function to change it from In to MM? Can't find it ! Cheers
Edit: Just had to change the 'Standard' to ISO :)
To snap to the center of the arc at ~ 11:00 , you can add a point. Additionally, you can put your first point of the construction line on the bottom, then hover over the arc and it will wake up a reference.
I'm unable to "mirror entities" when I select "ctrl + RPlane". The Mirror Entities option is greyed-out. Any thoughts?
same here
I’m extremely grateful for your tutorial videos thank you so much for sharing this
So, the angle in a chamfer(@35:02) is incremental from the last surface, which was at 25 degrees? That (chamfer)surface actually created the edge we are chamfering now. It is somewhat confusing, There should be some kind of parameter window with choice about the angle being measured from top surface(in absolute or incremental angle) or from the chamfer surface, which was created at 25 degrees (also choice of absolute or incremental angle). Same goes fro the size of the chamfer. Why? Because chamfer size is measured from top surface down, so why the angle doesn't follow same scheme?...which would actually make the angle at (minus) -35 degrees in absolute from the top surface/X coordinate axis, or 55 degrees absolute from the X coordinate axis/top surface.
Can you , please, confirm, that it is always the same way-e.i measured down from top surface and angle incremental from the side surface.???......I am just wandering how do you then decide, if the 2 surfaces (top one and the chamfered surface) are not paralel to any mayor axis or soordinate surface!?
Hi sir, angle in 2D drawing is 115 deg. Actually it is not big deal . You are great teacher.
35:00 I found that typing .181 in that direction (25deg draft) will result in .164 in the horizontal direction, not .181 like in the drawing. Is there anyway to specify .181 referenced horizontally directly?
I noticed the same problem
At 43:20 You put .371 from center to the rectangular. But on the sketch is different, there You have .371 from center to center of rectangular, so was it Your mistake?
I saw this as well. The .371 dimension is to the center of the rectangle, not the bottom of the rectangle I believe.
He's correct. The .371 is from center of the arc to the bottom of the rectangle. It's a bit hard to see because the rectangular extrude cut is the upper rectangle in the drawing, while the lower one is the fillet.
Fantastic teacher having trouble sketching at 33 min
great work, I feel now to be in the room of genius, so I am
am on ep 04 hope i can learn properly ,by the way he is good teacher , thanks for your effort and contribution .
Sir, will you update the whole Solidworks beginner series, or will you stop here. I have been going through your videos and it helped me a lot. I have completed till E4, waiting for E5 2020 if it comes out. Thank you for updating this wonderful series.
Hello, thank you for the kind words. I plan on continuing the update of videos.
Thank you sir, waiting for your next videos!!!
on the last boss you did near the end, did you miss out a break in the boss? or am I seeing something in the drawing that doesn't actually exist?
Hi Dan, Good catch! I mention in my E1 video that I don't go through every step in the labs, as students are supposed to be doing them on their own. Also, when I grade the labs, missed items like that allow me to gage my students to see if the are over-reliant on the lab videos so that I can get them more help. The goal is for student to be able to complete the labs without assistance, as in the real world we don't always have a video to help us with our job. Also, I am only human, even though I wrote these lessons, I still make mistakes from time-to-time. if you download the L5b parts you can find the original L4 part file (assuming you're talking abut L4) to compare to yours. Best regards,
CS
When you created the plane normal to the vertex of the curve....could you also accomplish the same thing by changing the perspective to be normal to the vertex by hitting space and then left or right? Since the curve was referenced to the center of the model I would think that the vertex of it is perpendicular to the center of the part.
This so epic!
what am i doing wrong that it wont activate the mirror control ...it stays grayed out and how do i attach a snapshot?
Hey .. i got a part that i have to draw and I’m having trouble drawing it.. can you help me figuring it out?
Would I have to mark you down for not following your own dimensions in L4 where the degrees are 23 and 115 and you punch in 24 & 118?
Good catch, that is how I verify if students are overly reliant on my videos and not doing it on their own.
I downloaded 2022 SW and now all the features are working as they should that weren't working in 2020
hey, im a student and i have a student lisence for 3 months.
can i make it longer anyhow?