Complete course of Solidworks for beginners

Learn SolidWorks sketching and part modeling from scratch, covering extrudes, sweeps, lofts, patterns, and configurations, for beginners.

<h2>About this course</h2>In this course, you learn SolidWorks sketching and part modeling from scratch, with tools taught through real-world, project-oriented applications. You begin with the interface, navigation, views, units, templates, and design intent, then create sketches with lines, arcs, polygons, slots, splines, and ellipses, controlled by relations and dimensions. Sketch editing covers fillets, trim and extend, offsets, text, patterns, mirror, and transform tools. Part modeling starts with extruded bosses and cuts, feature scope, fillets including FilletXpert, chamfers, and revolves. You add reference planes, material and mass properties, appearances, section views, and markups, then build linear, circular, sketch-driven, fill, table-driven, and variable patterns, working with multiple bodies and the combine tool. Sweeps follow, with guide curves and 3D paths. The splines, curves, and conics section is the largest, covering 3D sketches, helixes, sketch pictures, projected, composite, and intersection curves, derived sketches, and split lines. You then create lofts, boundary features, and lofted and boundary cuts, and apply solid body features such as shell, rib, face editing, wrap, dome, and indent. Advanced features include drafts, draft analysis, holes, threads, and instant 2D and 3D editing. Finally, you work with blocks, belt chain motion, and the Design Library, and drive parts with global variables, equations, configurations, and design tables. Every section ends with a practice exercise and quiz.<h2>Who should take this course</h2>This course is for you if you are a complete beginner to SolidWorks and want to learn part modeling properly from the start. It also suits intermediate users who know only the basics and want to learn advanced tools and commands such as sweeps, lofts, boundary features, multibody techniques, and configurations. It fits mechanical engineering students, product designers, and hobbyists who want a thorough foundation before moving on to assemblies and drawings.<h2>Pre-requisites</h2>The course starts from the beginning and requires no prior SolidWorks experience. You need a full or student version of SolidWorks and a little knowledge of the Windows operating system. Lessons use SolidWorks 2021 and 2022 but work with older and newer versions.