Essentials Assignments: Bottom-Up Assembly Modeling & Using Assemblies

Today we'll review the second half of the Essentials course while preparing for the CSWA exam.

Lesson Follow-up

Find the Center of Mass in each Assembly. Save your files.

1. Complete Exercise 56: Mates
2. Complete Exercise 57: Gripe Grinder
3. Complete Exercise 58: Using Hide and Show Component
4. Complete Exercise 59: Part Configurations in an Assembly
5. Complete Exercise 60: U-Joint Changes
6. Complete Exercise 61: Using Collision Detection
7. Complete Exercise 62: Finding and Repairing Interferences
8. Complete Exercise 63: Checking for Interferences, Collisions and Clearances
9. Complete Exercise 64: Exploded Views and Assembly Drawings
10. Complete Exercise 65: Exploded Views

Tutorials

Do the following tutorials inside of SOLIDWORKS:

1. Assembly Mates

YouTube

1. Watch Creating Standard Assembly Mates in SOLIDWORKS on YouTube Watch Video
2. Watch Checking Interference and Range of Motion in SOLIDWORKS on YouTube Watch Video
3. Watch SOLIDWORKS: BOM Control for Subassembly Components on YouTube Watch Video

Quiz Yourself

1. Take Quiz

SolidProfessor

Watch and follow along with all videos in this section and all exercises in these sections. Check your work in the Practice Exercises. If needed, rework until you are able to get the right answer.

1. Section 5 - Creating Assemblies Watch Video
2. Section 8 - Assembly Mate Errors Watch Video

Another week complete. Have a great weekend!