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solidworks drawing creation manual

solidworks drawing creation manual

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hello - my company has just sent us to solidworks essentials class for 1 week - we can now make really pretty models but our work requires us to make mechanical drawings - there is a specific cource on drawings only that i wanted to attend but my company will not pay for it - they feel that the essentials class is good enough & we should be able to make drawings like we have in autocad - i have tried to read thru 2 books on solidworks drawings but they are still not to specific enough nor do they give the kind of info one would need to make true mechanical drawings i.e. placing datums directly on dimension lines, using tolerances in dimensions, etc. you get the picture  - is there another source or manual that someone would have access to or a download on solidworks drawings that is highly reccommended?? - any help would be greatly appreciated - thank you in advance

RE: solidworks drawing creation manual

Try first the SolidWorks tutorials that come with the software. You can find them in the Help menu.

RE: solidworks drawing creation manual

If you have an existing acad format you can import that and eventually end up with a sheet format that can be used to make your drawings.
With a part file open, select "make a drawing from a part file" and follow your nose. Work with the tutorial and the help files. Within a week, you should be able to make a drawing.
Of course if you take the class, within a day you would be there . . .  

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Hardie "Crashj" Johnson
SW 2008 SP4
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RE: solidworks drawing creation manual

I recommend creating any sheet formats and templates natively within SolidWorks.  It's usually a lot faster than trying to convert anything over from Acad, especially when it comes to the text.  You'll have to do a lot of work in the sheet format anyway when you link fields to custom properties and such.

Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
and Mechnical.Engineering Yahoo! Group

RE: solidworks drawing creation manual

Check out Igetit and SolidProfessor.
Both are on-line tutorials and inexpensive.

RE: solidworks drawing creation manual


There are very reasonably prices Solidworks and Catia tutorials available here:

http://www.video-tutorials.net/

I am using the solidworks tutorials at them moment. They are good. They are video tutorials, which is kind of easier than having to read a tutorial/book.

RE: solidworks drawing creation manual

fcsuper,
Your right on the mark. We at first imported AutoCAD 11 into SolidWorks. After a lot of lost work I deserted the idea and drew my own with less effort.
A star for you.
 

Bradley
SolidWorks Pro 2009 x64, SP2.0EV
PDMWorks Workgroup, SolidWorks BOM,
HP xw8600,
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Service Pack 1
Intel Xeon CPU, 3.00 GHz, 16 GB RAM, Virtual memory 166682 MB,
nVidia Quadro FX 4600 Driver 7.15.11.6956

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