SolidWorks - 3D Skills/Personal Edition

renewal

joe harger — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:08:45 EST

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could answer a question. I was going to get signed up
for a seminar to start learning Solidworks with the Personal Edition. I know it says it is good for 90 days with option for renewal. Could someone tell me if the renewal has a price and if so what is it. The reason I ask is because I was going to start taking some classes in the fall and I was going to purchase the Student Version but I thought
the personal edition would be a great starter.

hole dimensioning on cylinder

George Waterman — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:10:05 EST

I have made a cylindrical short tube part and have cut a hole using hole wizard and a point which I sketched on the surface - the hole is a small angle, o.82 degrees, below the horizontal and SW will not recognize it for dimsioning (neither size nor position). I understand that SW wants to see a true view of the hole but I cannot get SW to create an auxillary view looking down the axis of the hole. How does one do this?

SW Designer in LA?

Andy Warren — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:29:27 EST

Does anyone know the going salary for LA? I do some Moonlighting and one of my customers is bitching about price. He says he has friend at a company in LA and they only pay $22 to do advance 3D SolidWorks designs. Something like 5,000 designs in 3 years of experience. It is a company call Sam Pievac, if anyone knows the designers there. It is not apples to apples design work (because he is doing something totally different than I am doing on the side job). But I still think he is full of it saying they only pay someone with that much experience in LA $22. Hell I know of users in Po-dunk TN and KY that make that much an hour...

symmetrical airfoil sketching

David Yeomans — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:28:38 EST

Hello,
I have, in the past with autocad2000 , sketched Wing Ribs for a remote control Biplane ( to the best of my sketching skills at the time), using arcs.

Question is:
Is there a more correct use of geometry technique available for
sketching an airfoil symmetrically?

Using a spline, seems to be too much work to get the more correct result.
(at least for the leading edge)

Any suggestions?

Saving as dwg

Jim Petrain — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:52:55 EST

I am looking to save assemblies and files into dwg or dxf format. Not from a drawing assembly though. I have a few customers that have to be able to look into layers as such and if truly needed be able to edit the file. What can you suggest for us? They can only use autocad.

PhotoWorks

David Yeomans — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:44:41 EST

Tutoial in Personal Version states:

To enable PhotoWorks:

Click Tools, Add-Ins.

In the dialog box, select PhotoWorks, then click OK.

I have no "Add-Ins" selection in Tools drop down.
This item probably is not available for Personal Version.

Should it have a statement in Tutorial?

Assembly, Surface control?

David Yeomans — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:30:00 EST

Hello,
I'm using the personal version.

1. Could someone tell me how to pattern the vain, in this Arrow assembly?
Looking for 3 equally spaced around shaft.

2. How to control vain distance from shaft end (with mate)?

3. How to control Orientation of Nock, It is in alignment with the attached vane.

(Purely by luck)

Thanx in Advance....

3D Sketching with Planes

David Yeomans — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:00:29 EST

Hello,

I have gone through this part many times,
Loft has no opening in completed model?

In one case, I did a shell and a cut to work, is it necessary?

Thanx for any suggestions....

Shelling a section of a solid?

Andrew Johnson — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:36:29 EST

I'm trying to shell out a geometry, which happens to have a minimum radius of curvature problem. the thing is, i don't really need the area with the minimum radius shelled out..
the geometry looks like this:
http://people.clarkson.edu/~johnsoad/lb.jpg

where, i want the main body of the craft shelled out, but not the vertical fins... i tried doing this by chopping off the fins, and shelling it, it worked well, but then i don't have the fins.. I'd rather not make it an assembly, because we're going to be building it in the stereolith machine, and it doesn't like mated parts.
So, is there a way to shell within a certain region?

coordinate extraction

Default Default — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:46:00 EST

Hi all,

I have a lot of rectangular boxes attached to the inner circumference of the cylider. And, I am interested to get the x,y,z coordinates of each rectangular box. For example, for a rectangular box designed in solidworks, I would like to have 8 sets of coordinates (xyz). I would be thankful to you if you could kindly let me know, if it is possible to acheive in solidworks, if yes then how?