3DVIA Composer

Length: 3 days

Prerequisite: Experience with the Windows operating system.

Description: Teaches you how to use the 3DVIA Composer software to create 2D and 3D output from CAD design data. You will learn how to use some of the advanced functions of the 3DVIA Composer software and its associated products to create, share, and distribute content.

SolidWorks Essentials Training

Length: 5 days

Prerequisite: Completion of the 1st 3 lessons of online tutorials, knowledge of SolidWorks and basic mechanical engineering concepts is recommended.

Description: Perform product design work more quickly and accurately with SolidWorks, the leader in affordable 3D CAD software. SolidWorks offers best-in-class solid modeling and 2D drawing capabilities, plus more timesaving innovations than any other 3D CAD system.
Topics that will be covered are:

• Sketching
• Multi-contour Sketching
• Reference Geometry Creation
• Design Intent
• Feature Creation
• Shelling
• Configurations
• Assemblies
• Drawings/Detailing
• Editing
• Parent Child Relationships
• Relations
• Rudimentary top-down design
• Advanced mating techniques

SolidWorks Essentials Refresher

Length: 2 days

Prerequisites: Completion of SolidWorks Essentials Training.

Description: This course will re-introduce the main topics discussed in the SolidWorks Essentials Course.

The topics covered in this course are:

• SolidWorks User Interface
• Configuration creation with Design Tables
• Creation of Library Features
• Sweep Creation
• Assembly Editing
• Top Down Assembly Creation
• Lightweight Assemblies
• Creation of a Drawing
• Template Creation

SolidWorks Advanced Assemblies Modeling

Length: 3 days

Prerequisites: Completion of the SolidWorks Essentials Training.

Description: Learn to work with assemblies more effectively. This class is essential to everyone working with large assemblies and for those looking for maximum productivity gains in the assembly environment.

The topics covered in this course are:

• Top-Down Assembly Modeling
• Building In-Context Parts
• Building In-Context Assemblies
• Component Pattering/Mirroring
• Advanced mating techniques
• Feature Palette Parts
• Configuration of Assemblies
• Assembly Design Tables
• Assembly editing techniques
• Troubleshooting Assemblies
• Smart Fasteners
• Managing Large Assemblies
• Layout Sketches in Assemblies
• SolidWorks Explorer

SolidWorks Advanced Part Modeling

Length: 2 days

Prerequisites: Completion of the SolidWorks Essentials Training.

Description: Recommended for Industrial Designers, designers who design plastic parts, aerodynamic or hydrodynamic parts, stylized consumer goods or those who work with surfaces.

The topics covered in this course are:

• Multibody Solids
• Sweeping
• Lofting
• Guide Curves
• Variable Radius Fillets
• Multi-thickness shelling
• Helical sweeps
• 3D Sketching
• Palette and Library features
• Derived and copied sketches
• Face Blends
• Multiple-radius and setback fillets

SolidWorks Sheet Metal & Weldments

Length: 2 days

Prerequisites: Completion of the SolidWorks Essentials Training.

Description: This course teaches you how to create sheet metal parts and weldments within part files. The topics covered in this course are:

• Base Flange
• Miter Flanges
• Edge Flanges
• Tab/Boss Flanges
• Bend Table entry/editing
• Creating flat patterns
• Adding features to flat patterns
• Forming tools
• Drawings of sheet metal parts
• Converting legacy or imported sheet metal parts
• Corner rips
• Creating process plans
• Creating sheet metal in assemblies
• Structural Members
• Pipes and Tubing
• Trimming
• Drawing Creation and Cut Lists

SolidWorks Drawings

Length: 2 days

Prerequisites: Completion of the SolidWorks Essentials Training.

Description: This course teaches you how to make drawings of SolidWorks parts and assemblies. The topics covered in this course are:

• Preparations for Detailing
• Drawing Sheets and Views
• Center Marks, Centerlines, and Dimensions
• Adding Annotations
• Drawings Sheets and Templates
• Settings
• Assembly Drawing Views
• BOMs and Design Tables
• Performance and Display Issues
• Changing Drawing References
• eDrawings

SolidWorks Routing Systems

Length: 2 days

Prerequisites: Completion of SolidWorks Essentials Training and Advanced Assemblies.

Description: This course teaches how to use the Routing program to create piping routes, rigid and flexible, as well as electrical wire harness creation inside of SolidWorks. The topics covered in this course are:

• Piping Route Creation
• Configurations
• Review of Top Down Design
• Use of the Design Library
• Review of 3D Sketching
• Setting up SolidWorks PDM
• Tubing Route Creation
• Electrical Route Creation
• 2D Nailboard Creation

SolidWorks Advanced Surfacing & Complex Shapes

Length: 2 days

Prerequisites: Advanced Parts class or extensive experience with complex shapes. This is not a beginning user class.

Description: This class picks up where the Advanced Part class leaves off, and goes into detail about how to achieve complex shapes using all the tools available. In this class we also walk the student through surface modeling techniques and the interchange between solids and surfaces. There are many creative example parts on a CD that accompanies the class material. The topics covered in this course are:

• Curves - 2D/3D splines, intersection, projected and composite curves
• Sweeps, Lofts - set up, best practice, tricks to achieve common shapes
• Solids only functions - deform, dome, shape, delete face
• Surfaces only functions - fill, delete hole, replace face, trim/untrim/extend
• Advanced filleting - variable/multi radius, face, hold line, full round, setback and curvature continuous, fillet ordering
• Model evaluation - draft, undercut, curvature, zebra-stripe and deviation analysis
• Manipulating imported data - de- and re-constructing imported geometry, import part repair

SolidWorks Mold Design

Length: 1 days

Prerequisites: Advanced Parts class or extensive experience with complex shapes. This is not a beginning user class.

Description: This class picks up where the Advanced Part class leaves off, and goes into detail about how to create a mold using the SolidWorks functionality. This class will also walk the student through surface modeling techniques and the interchange between solids and surfaces to create the appropriate mold features.
The topics covered in this course are:

• Overview of Core and Cavity Principles
• Applying Shrinkage to a part
• Using Draft Analysis
• Determine Parting Lines and Surfaces
• Creating Shut-off surfaces
• Create a Tooling Split
• Creating Side Cores, Lifters, and Core Pins
• Model and electrode

API

Length: 3 days

Prerequisites: Completion of SolidWorks Essentials Training and Visual Basic knowledge.

Description: This course teaches how to use the SolidWorks API (Application Programming Interface) to automate and customize SolidWorks. The topics covered in this course are:

• Visual Basic Fundamentals (1/2 day)
• Macro Recording
• Setting system and document properties
• Automating Part Design
• Troubleshooting Visual Basic code
• Drawing Automation
• Adding Custom properties and attributes
• Building the following SolidWorks macros from scratch:
  o  Batch conversion utility
  o  Custom Properties Application
  o  Simple configurator with part and drawing automation

SolidWorks Administrator

Length: 1 days

Prerequisites: Basic experience with SolidWorks & significant knowledge of the Windows™ operating system.

Description: This course is for CAD Administrators or IT staff deploying, troubleshooting, and mainaining a SolidWorks product group. The topics covered in this course are:

• SolidWorks Installations
• SolidWorks Setup
• SolidWorks Updates
• SolidWorks PDM Installation
• PDMWorks Updates
• SolidWorks Simulation Installation
• SolidWorks Simulation Updates
• SolidWorks Shared Resources
• Administrative Images
• Toolbox Installation
• User Options

SolidWorks Enterprise PDM CAD Editor

Length: 1 day

Prerequisites: Completion of the SolidWorks Essentials Training.

Description: Recommended for anyone who will manage files with SolidWorks Enterprise PDM. The topics covered in this course are:

• SolidWorks Enterprise PDM Concepts
• SolidWorks Enterprise PDM User Interface
• Document Creation and Check In
• Advanced Document Check In
• Versioning Files & CAD files
• File References
• Searching
• Workflow and Notification
• Managing Local Cache
• Working with Bill of Materials (BOM)

SolidWorks Enterprise PDM Basic Admin

Length: 2 days

Prerequisites: Completion of the SolidWorks Essentials Training.

Description: Recommended for anyone who will setup, use and/or administer SolidWorks Enterprise PDM.  The topics covered in this course are:

• The AdministratorTool
• Installation Planning
• Vault Creation
• View Creation
• Users and Groups
• Variables, Serial Numbers and Lists
• Creating and Modifying Data Cards
• Templates
• Categories, Revision Numbers and Data Import and Export
• Workflows and Notifications
• Column and Bill of Material (BOM) Views
• File Types and Settings

SolidWorks Enterprise PDM Advanced Admin

Length: 2 days

Prerequisites: Completion of the SolidWorks Enterprise PDM Basic Training.

Description: This course is for anyone who will setup and administer SolidWorks Enterprise PDM.

The topics covered in this course are:

• Templates - Template Input Forms (Refresher and Case Study sample)
• Lists (Advanced - using T-SQL queries)
• Workflow/Revision
• BOM tool
• Import/Export Tool
• Lists
• Notifications
• Serial Numbers
• Reports
• Toolbox Setup (Refresher)
• Dispatch (Case Study sample)
• Add-in API (Case Study sample)
• Cold Storage
• Backup and Restore
• Web client installation and usage
• Replication (Concept and Setup)
• Admin Image Deployment

SolidWorks Simulation Essentials

Length: 3 days

Prerequisites: Knowledge of SolidWorks and basic mechanical engineering concepts is recommended.

Description: This course is for SolidWorks Simulation users wishing to create better designs in SolidWorks by performing analyses and evaluating the behavior of their parts and assemblies under actual service conditions. The topics covered in this course are:

• Introduction to FEA
• FEA Principles and Theory
• Element Quality
• Linear Static Analysis of Parts
• Gap/Contact and Advanced Assembly Analysis
• Analysis Setup and Post-Processing
• Evaluating FE Convergence
• Limitations of Linear Analysis
• Load and Boundary Condition Application
• Stress Analysis with Thermal Loading
• Model and Result Validation
• Automatic Report Generation

SolidWorks Simulation Professional

Length: 2 days

Prerequisites: Knowledge of SolidWorks and basic mechanical engineering concepts is recommended. Completion of SolidWorks Simulation Essentials course is required.

Description: The course is designed to build on the foundation of experienced gained in the SolidWorks Simulation Essentials Course. The topics covered in this course are:

• Heat Transfer Analysis, Steady State and Transient
• Frequency Analysis
• Effect of In-Plane Loading on Thin-Walled Structures
• Structural Failure Under Compressive Loads
• Buckling of Elastic Structures
• Meshing options
• Drop Testing
• Fatigue
• Optimization

SolidWorks Flow Simulation

Length: 2 days

Prerequisites: Knowledge of SolidWorks and basic mechanical engineering concepts is recommended.

Description: This course is for SolidWorks Flow Simulation users interested in improving their designs with CFD Analysis. The course emphasizes a hands-on approach and will cover the basics of turbulent flow analysis while introducing the user to the FloWorks Interface and Capabilities. The topics covered in this course are:

• Overview of Fluid Flow Basics
• Navigating the FloWorks interface
• Understanding the Options Within the FloWorks Wizard
• Applying Boundary Conditions
• Meshing and Modeling Concerns
• Post-Processing (Vectors, Iso-lines, Particle Tracking)
• Steady State and Transient Analyses
• Fan Curve and Fan Definition
• Conjugate Heat Transfer
• Open/Closed System Analyses
• Advanced Features Including Manual Mesh Control and Convergence and EFD Zooming

SolidWorks Simulation Dynamics

Length: 2 days

Prerequisites: Completion of the SolidWorks Simulation class, or must have an experience with SolidWorks + working basic knowledge of finite elements and of basic mechanical principles. The knowledge of basic principles in Vibrations is strongly recommended, but not required.

Description: This course is targeted for the users who would like to become productive in analyzing structures subjected to various types of dynamic loading. The material covered includes the time dependent analysis (force loads as well as motion shock loading examples), harmonic analysis and random vibration analysis. The topics covered in this course are:

• Modal time history analysis
• Steady-state harmonic analysis
• Random vibration
• Rayleigh damping, modal damping, composite damping
• Load vs. time data for nodal forces, pressure loads
• Uniform and nonuniform base excitations in the time or frequency domain for
  displacement, velocity and acceleration
• Harmonic excitation for nodal forces, pressure loads, uniform and nonuniform ground motions and varied phase angles
• Power spectral density (PSD) excitation curves for nodal forces, pressure loads, uniform and nonuniform ground motions

SolidWorks Simulation Non-Linear

Length: 2 days

Prerequisites: Knowledge of SolidWorks and basic mechanical engineering concepts is recommended. Experience with the SolidWorks Simulation interface.

Description: This course is for SolidWorks Simulation users needing to expand their Finite Element Analysis capabilities into the non linear domain. The topics covered in this course are:

• Introduction to Nonlinear Structural Analysis
• Types of Non-linearities
• Numerical Procedures of Non Linear FEA
• Non Linear Buckling
• Geometric Non-Linear Analysis
• Material Models and Constitutive Relations
• Elasto-plasticity
• Hyperelasticity
• Non-linear Elastic behavior
• 3D Non Linear contact
• Report Generation

SolidWorks Motion

Length: 2 days

Prerequisites: Knowledge of SolidWorks and basic mechanical engineering concepts is recommended.

Description: This course is for SolidWorks Motion users interested in improving their designs with motion-based analysis using existing SolidWorks assembly models. Results of these analyses can then be used to optimize designs and reduce the number of actual physical prototypes. The topics covered in this course are:

• Overview of Kinematic Analysis
• Motion Simulation Basics
• Motion Analysis
• Joint Mapping
• Motion specification inputs
• Contact and coupling
• Use of Markers
• Kinematic Springs and Dampers
• Bridge to FEA