Complete course of Solidworks assembly

Learn SolidWorks assemblies from basic mates to mechanical mates, interference checks, and exploded views, for users who know part modeling.

<h2>About this course</h2>In this course, you learn to build SolidWorks assemblies from the ground up, using real-world assemblies such as a filing cabinet, a jack, and gear assemblies. You start with top-down and bottom-up approaches, the assembly workspace, and inserting your first component. You then apply standard mates, including parallel, coincident, symmetric, concentric, distance, profile center, tangent, perpendicular, and lock mates, and repeat parts with linear component patterns. The advanced section adds path, linear coupler, limit distance, hinge, and angular limit mates, and shows you how to insert subassemblies, use component configurations, and manage display states. You also check your designs with interference detection, fix interference issues, verify clearances and hole alignment, and package files with Pack and Go. The mechanical mates section covers cam and slot, gear, rack and pinion, screw, universal joint, and magnetic mates, along with chain component patterns. You create exploded views with advanced options, build components in context, and modify linked components. Each section includes a practice exercise and quiz. By the end, you will understand basic, mechanical, and advanced assembly tools and be able to apply them to assemblies in your own SolidWorks projects.<h2>Who should take this course</h2>This course is for you if you have already finished the SolidWorks beginners course and have a basic knowledge of the part environment. It suits mechanical design students, product designers, and engineers who need to combine parts into working assemblies. It also fits intermediate users who want to move beyond basic mates into mechanical mates, interference and clearance checks, configurations, and in-context design for machines and products with moving parts.<h2>Pre-requisites</h2>You need a basic knowledge of the SolidWorks part environment, ideally from the SolidWorks beginners course. You also need a full or student version of SolidWorks and a little familiarity with the Windows operating system.