SolidWorks: Introduction to Surfacing

SolidWorks: Introduction to Surfacing

Course Duration: 24 Hours (3 days, 8 hours a day. Ask about our Week Long Surfacing Intensive)

Tuition: $1,500

Overview: In this near one-on-one instructor to student ratio, students have the option to customize this course to fit their requirements and modify the time from 3 days to as much as 5 days. Customization may include: custom tutorials and custom models or making the workshop more specific to plastics, industrial design, capturing form, or proving form.

Projects: Based upon student interests or job requirements.

Prerequisite: 500 hours or SolidWorks Level 1

Topics:

  • 3D Curves and 2D curves together
  • Surface Loft and surface boundary functions
  • IGES and STEP imports and exports
  • Surface Offsets and Copy Move functions
  • Extend Surfaces, Surface Trims and Knits
  • Manage Sweeping surfaces as Draft on complex Sweeps with respect to plastic part design
  • Learn to create special tool curves and surfaces that will help manage surface geometry manipulations
  • Project curves onto surfaces and and intersect surfaces to obtain curves. Learn to build geometry with those resultant curves
  • Use composite curves
  • Use the 3D curve tool to sketch spine on surface
  • Import images to sketch over
  • Share with examples the Freeform, Dent Tools
  • Discuss surfacing methodologies with respect to Alias Studio and Rhino modeling techniques
  • Learn techniques using surfacing of forcing rounds onto solid geometry

Discussions:

  • Discuss Mid-Surfaces as a technique used with top down design
  • Discuss techniques with respect to bringing in 2D and 3D IGES geometry
  • Discuss overbuilding with respect to tools and functions inside SolidWorks
  • Discuss plan of attack and modern day surfacing technique
  • Manage over molding with respect to tools we learned in the class
  • Discuss using curve tools to manage light reflections
  • Discuss G1, G2 Continuity and light reflection with respect to product design and SolidWorks surfacing
  • Discuss workflow with respect to capturing form (building a surface model from looking at a foam model)
  • Discuss proving form by taking advantage of parent child relationships and maximizing equations in sketches
  • Discuss with examples three methods for Top Down Design using SolidWorks
  • Share SolidWorks options for optimizing a proving form methodology while surfacing

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