Really cool assembly. Had some difficulties with the posts. You have to mate them creatively with width and coincident.
Gear Toy Assembly
Created the animation and converted it to a gif. Very fun.
Drone Assembly
Learned how to make both "fans" move in unison and also constrain the angle that they rotate to 90 degrees.
Multibody Exploded View Exercise
Really easy to make exploded views. SolidWorks is just so intuitive.
Modeling Threads
Here you can see the thread modeling process. Use a helix path, a "tooth" and sweep cut. Threads aren't normally shown in engineering drawings.
Turnbuckle Assembly
3D modeled this assembly. Pretty neat how you can twist the "hooks" in and out of the threads once you mate everything.
Countour Selection Tool
By just creating a sketch with all the contours you can select each one and extrude it independently. TIme saver for sure.
Gear Assembly Exercise
1:2 gear ratio or overdrive. Meaning the output gear will spin twice as fast as the input but have half the torque. With mechanical mates the gears mesh and spin perfectly.
Cam Mates
Have to constrain the "lid" to 90 degree rotation.
Disclaimer: I'm working through two SolidWorks CAD textbooks named SolidWorks Part I - Basic Tools (Parts, Assemblies and Drawings) and SolidWorks Part II - Advanced Techniques (Parts, Surfaces, Sheet Metal, SimulationXpress, Top-Down Assemblies, Core and Cavity Molds) by Paul Tran to further my SolidWorks/CAD skills and achieve professional certification. These parts are not my design, all credit belongs to Paul Tran, they were, however, modeled/assembled by me from scratch with step-by-step instructions or with 2-D engineering drawings from the text for purely educational purposes. If you're interested in seeing designs I've created with SolidWorks I'll be posting those on a seperate page(s).
Background: Having so much fun with this, things that I struggled with start to feel second nature and I've learned some neat new features and tools. I love how powerful and awesome CAD software is. I plan to update this weekly as a I progress and I've put little blurbs under each part from what I learned while modeling it.
Note: Best viewed on desktop computer, for phone/tablet users a portion of the side images and text will be cut off, apologies.
