Pennsylvania

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 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 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 Advanced 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 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.

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 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 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