Any solidworks experts on here??

I have access to it at work and want to learn how to use modern CAD packages.

The last time i touched CAD software you had to program the parameters in UNIX K-shell.

I gather its moved on a touch?

How quick is it to pick up the basics??

 

It's easy enough to self teach yourself the basics mate.

There is a shedload of tutorials for just about everything Solidworks related on YouTube!

 

As above have a look at YouTube, also go through the tutorials that are built into sw as there designed for the novice user. Once you've got the basics its easy.

 

Ahh fair enough, i shall go through the tutorials and see if i can make a CAD 3d dildo

So no programming at all these days??

 

As said, basics are fairly easy to pick up. Much easier than the likes of catia

 

I cant remember the name of the software i had at uni but it was all programmed in C via the k shell on unix computers. Was fucking painful having to learn all the code then defining all your dimensions and parameters with more code. Then computing it in the hope it looks like you thought it would

Managed to make a cylinder so far!! was dead simple.

 

I'm not a Solidworks users (CATIA yes), but I recon its the same when having to learn. I would buy or borrow a book with a title like "Introduction to Solidworks with tutorials and examples" and trust me if you do these correctly and carefully you will learn a lot!

 

At uni we covered Autodesk Inventor, 3ds Max and CATIA, the last of which was the only one I struggled to get to grips with.

I've been producing drawings for an M&E Engineering comapany since I finished my degree 4 years ago, AutoCAD is the industry standard which we never covered on any of our course modules, they have since introduced 3 modules for AutoCAD after I made them aware.

 

rediculous that major universities don't know what the industry standard stuff is

Could be worse, could be the MoD which was a good decade behind

 

well my boss has extended my project. He thinks theres no point designing a carbon monococque based around existing off the shelf subframes. He thinks i might as well design the whole suspension from scratch (preferably double wishbone) and in effect design the whole chassis upto a rolling chassis including drivetrain.

I see lots of hours disapearing over the next few months

 

Who do you work for.? Sounds an interesting project.

 

An advanced composites (ie mostly carbon) manufacturing and supply company. I work in the technical department, which for a smallish company means i do a lot of other things ontop of what my main job is

 

The tutorials built into SolidWorks are very helpful.

I managed this after following the 3D sketching tutorial to make a wire rack and using what I had learned to make something more interesting!



I did use the photo view add in to render it afterwards.

 

That photo rendering looks pretty cool.

I wonder if anyone has a puma 3d mesh, could model the chassis around puma dimensions then

I could do with a 3D scanner