Length: 4 days - 9:00am to 4:30pm PST

Location: HUMANMADE, 150 Hooper Street, #400, San Francisco, CA 94107

Prerequisites: Mechanical design experience; experience with the Windows® operating system

Description: The SOLIDWORKS Essentials course will teach you how to use the SOLIDWORKS mechanical design automation software to build parametric models of parts and assemblies, and how to make drawings of those parts and assemblies.

Topics covered in this course:

1. SOLIDWORKS Basics
2. Introduction to Sketching
3. Basic Part Modeling
4. Modeling a Casting or Forging
5. Patterning
6. Revolved Features
7. Shelling and Ribs
8. Editing: Repairs
9. Editing: Design Changes
10. Configurations
11. Global Variables and Equations
12. Using Drawings
13. Bottom-Up Assembly Modeling
14. Using Assemblies