Sketching · Complete SOLIDWORKS learning path
Clean, fully defined sketches: the foundation of every solid part.
Free video training · 3D Design
Five lessons, from your first line to equation driven curves. The videos in the first three lessons are in French (marked FR): this is the best starting point for a new user.
5 lessons
20 videos, 12 in French
Beginner to advanced
Free
What you will be able to do
✓Choose the right plane and draw basic entities quickly
✓Fully define a sketch with dimensions and relations
✓Edit a sketch without redrawing it: trim, offset, mirror
✓Create complex curves: splines, projections, equations
Where to start
New user: take lessons 1 to 3 in order, all their videos are in French (marked FR). You already sketch every day: lesson 5 on advanced curves is for you.
The program
01Starting a sketchPlanes and faces, lines, rectangles, circles, arcs, ellipses and slots.▶ 5 videosBeginnerFrench videos▶Starting a Sketch on a Plane or Face · FR▶Sketch Entities: Lines and Centerlines · FR▶Sketch Entities: Rectangles · FR▶Sketch Entities: Circles and Arcs · FR▶Sketch Entities: Ellipses and Slots · FR→02Dimensioning and constrainingSmart Dimension and geometric relations for a fully defined sketch.▶ 2 videosBeginnerFrench videos▶Sketch: Smart Dimension · FR▶Sketch Relations · FR→03Editing a sketchTrim, sketch fillets and chamfers, mirror, convert and offset, contours.▶ 5 videosBeginnerFrench videos▶Sketch: Trimming · FR▶Sketch Fillets and Chamfers · FR▶Sketch Mirror · FR▶Sketch: Convert and Offset Entities · FR▶Sketch Contours · FR→04Reusing sketches and picturesDerived and copied sketches, and sketches traced over a picture.▶ 2 videosIntermediate▶Derived Sketch and Modify Sketch▶Sketching Using Sketch Pictures→05Advanced curvesSplines, projected and intersection curves, curves through points or driven by equations, curvature analysis.▶ 6 videosAdvanced▶Basic Splines▶Projected Curves▶Intersection Curves▶Curve Through XYZ Points▶Equation Driven Curves▶Curvature: Analyze and Assess the Quality of Curves and Surfaces→To go further, Dassault Systèmes also offers the learning paths Sketching Basics and Sketch Entities and Sketch Tools (on MySolidWorks).
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