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Contents

Introduction

About this Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii

Using This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

Converting Older SolidWorks Files to SolidWorks 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv

Chapter 1 User Interface

Menu Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2 Menu Bar Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2 Menu Bar Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2 SolidWorks Search and Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2

CommandManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 Customizing the CommandManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 Activating SolidWorks Office Add-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

FeatureManager Design Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 Show/Hide FeatureManager Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4 FeatureManager Design Tree Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4

Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6 Heads-up View Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6 Context Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6 Shortcut Bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-7 Opening and Displaying Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-7

Browse Recent Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8 Browse Open Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8 Document Preview Tooltips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9 Task Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9 Flyout Tool Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9 Control of Message Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-10

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Modifying Document Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-10 Design Clipart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-10

Chapter 2 RealView

RealView Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2 Legacy Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2

Appearances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3 Appearances PropertyManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3

Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8 Basic Scenes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8 Presentation Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9 Studio Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10 Edit Scene PropertyManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11

Dynamic Highlighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14

Chapter 3 Sketching

3D Sketch Symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2 Blocks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3

Create 2D Blocks in 3D Sketches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3 Area/Hatch Fill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3 Consolidated PropertyManagers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4 Auto Trace Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5 Show/Hide Sketch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6 Sketching in Instant3D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6 SketchXpert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7 Enhancements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7 Splines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-8 Continuity at Handles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-8 Curvature Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-9 Spline Manipulators Available while Not Editing a Sketch. . . . . . . . . . . 3-10 Spline on Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10

Chapter 4 Features

Boundary Surfaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2 Linear Option. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2 Tangent Influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2

Fillets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3 Fillet Corners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3 Fillet Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3

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Hole Series. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4 Enhancements: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4

Hole Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5 Enhancements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5

Instant3D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6

Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8 Circular Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8 Cosmetic Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8

Split Lines and Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9 Split Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9 Split Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9

Sweeps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10

Chapter 5 Parts

Mate to Coordinate Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2

Inserting and Mirroring Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2 Inserting Sketches when Inserting Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2 Breaking the Link to a Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2 Custom Properties of Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2 Automatic Positioning of Parts Using Mate References . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3

Isolating Bodies in Part Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4

Chapter 6 Assemblies

General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2 Assembly Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2 Stack-Up Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2 Display States in eDrawings? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2

AssemblyXpert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2

Derived Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3 Custom Properties of Mirrored Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3 Derived Component Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3

Hole Alignment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6

Layout-based Assembly Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7 Virtual Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7 Layout Sketches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8

Mates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9 Mate Icons in the FeatureManager Design Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9 Mating to Origins and Coordinate Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9

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