This book takes a hands-on, exercise-intensive approach to all the important Parametric Modeling techniques and concepts. This book introduces SOLIDWORKS 2015 on a step-by-step basis, starting with constructing basic shapes, all the way through to the creation of assembly drawings and motion analysis. When the constraints are no longer required, you can hide or permanently delete them.Parametric Modeling with SOLIDWORKS 2015 contains a series of sixteen tutorial style lessons designed to introduce SOLIDWORKS 2015, solid modeling and parametric modeling techniques and concepts. By adding direct edit constraints, you can easily control the editing behavior.
Perhaps you need to change the tabs to be angled. Performing more complex edits is just as simple. All of the parametric features created later in the design history have been maintained. Perhaps a simple task for an expert user, but direct editing can make this easy for a novice.Īs you can see in the feature tree shown above, the ‘Extrude.1’ feature was converted into a new feature called ‘Direct-Edit.1’. A change has been requested to create a new version that is asymmetrical.
In this example, a parametric model that was built using symmetric design intent. Fortunately, SOLIDWORKS 3DEXPERIENCE solutions combine both parametric and direct editing into a seamless, single modeling environment, giving you the best of both worlds! Of course, direct editing is also very useful for modifying imported solid geometry that does not include any parametric feature data. History-free editing has proven useful in these types of situations, however, it also has limitations.īy mixing these two techniques together, users can leverage the strengths that each approach provides.
Finally, software that thought the way I did!įast forward 20 years, I’m still a huge parametric modeling fan, but I’ve also encountered that feeling of dread when a late change to a model requires dramatic design alterations. Sure, under the hood I was still doing Boolean modeling, but it sure seemed faster, easier and much more fun. No more user coordinate systems just to sketch some geometry.Ĭoming from a manufacturing background, I quickly became comfortable defining some stock material, and then refining it using parametric features. No more add, subtract, union Boolean operations. When I was first exposed to parametric CAD in 1995, I immediately saw the promise this modeling technique offered.
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