Basic Drafting Course for SolidWorks
SolidWorks Live Web Instructor Led Training
The Basic Drafting Course for SolidWorks teaches you how to make drawings of SolidWorks parts and assemblies. The focus of this course is on the skills, tools and concepts central to successfully working with drawings.
Course details and prerequisites:
Date: January 13 - 15, 2009
Duration: 6 hours over a period of 3 Days
Price: $195.00 per student, Buy Now
Type: Instructor Led Web Course
Level: Basic to Intermediate
Prerequisites:
- Attended the SolidWorks Essentials or equivalent level of knowledge
- At least one month of experience using the software
After the training you will be able to:
- Create drawings of your parts and assemblies
- Add BOMs, Cut-Lists, and other data tables to your drawings
- Create drawings of your large assemblies quicker and easier
- Define and understand your SolidWorks system options for drawing
Customer comments about this training course
"Length of class (2 hrs early morning) was very good. The instructor presented the class very well. Visual presentation was very good"
John Tremblay, DECA Aviation
"I enjoyed that we could take the course over the web in the comfort of our work environment and during work hours."
Barbara Tamburri, Armatec
Course Outline
Settings
- System Options
- Drawings
- Default Display Type
- Area Hatch/Fill
- Document Properties
- Detailing
- Dimensions
- Notes
- Balloons
- Arrows
- Annotations Display
- Annotations Font
- Tables
- Units
- Line Font
- Sheet Metal
Drawing Sheets and Views
- New/Editing drawings
- Drawing Views
- Model Views
- Standard 3 views
- Projected Views
- Relative to Model View
- Auxiliary View
- Broken View
- Part Cutaway view
- Sheet Metal Flattened View
- Section view
- Aligned section view
- Detail view
- Broken-out section
- Cropped view
- Empty view
- View configuration
- Hiding views
- Multiple Drawing Sheets
- Sketching in Drawing Views
- Centermarks & Centerlines
- Model Edges in the View (Hiding & Showing Edges)
Dimensions
- Insert Model items
- Positioning
- Manipulating dimensions
- Driven dimensions
- Dimension Display Options
- Aligning Dimensions
- Dimension Property Manager
Annotations
- Introduction
- Notes
- Spell check
- Weld symbols
- Weld beads
- Weld end treatment
- Geometric tolerance symbol
- Surface finish symbol
- Multi-jog leaders
- Hole callouts
- Datum features
- Area hatch/fill
- Cosmetic threads
- Balloons (autoballoons, stacked balloons)
- Blocks
- Groups
- Alignment
- Layer properties
Assembly Drawing Views
- Configurations and display states
- Section views
- Broken out sections
- Cutaway views
- Component line font
- Hide component
- Automatic hiding on creation
- Advanced show/hide and advanced selection
- Alternate views
- Exploded views
Bill of Materials and Tables
- Bill of Materials
- General tables
- Hole tables
- Weldment cut list table
- Design tables in a drawing
