The Basic Skills

Hey, this is my 2^nd update on my SolidWorks blog

This week I have learnt how to use some of the basic tools in SolidWorks.

To be honest I got stuck right away when opening a [part] from the start up screen.  

I followed to instructions provided in class and clicked on [new] but every time this (see picture above) popped up and not [part], [assembly] and whatever else pops up. I repeated this a few times before clicking ok, this is when the menu I was looking for popped up.

I was then able to begin using the sketch tool to making shapes.

As always, I was all-over the place creating sketches over other sketches without knowing what was going on.

But I finally got the hang of it and then was able to move on to defining the shape with smart dimensions.

I was unsure of how to measure angles so I had to get some help on this (you have to click on the lines you want to measure the angel between)

From there on I didn’t have any more problems and I could finish my shapes by extruding and setting the materials

Till next time,
Deanna (design student)