Surfaces · Complete SOLIDWORKS learning path
The shapes solid modeling cannot create: blends, curved forms and imported geometry.
Free video training · 3D Design
Five lessons to move from solids to surfaces: understand continuity, control lofts and sweeps, build a complete surface model, refine blends and repair imported files.
5 lessons
16 videos, 2 in French
Intermediate to advanced
Free
What you will be able to do
✓Know when to switch to surfaces and read the continuity of a blend
✓Control a loft or a sweep with guide curves and constraints
✓Build a part from surfaces, then knit and thicken it into a solid
✓Repair and edit an imported file without remodeling it
Where to start
Start with lesson 1: the concept of continuity is used in all the others. If you mostly receive STEP files from customers or suppliers, you can go straight to lesson 5 afterward.
The program
01Understanding surfacesSurface body or solid body, C0, C1, C2 continuity and curvature analysis.▶ 3 videosIntermediate▶Introduction to Surfacing▶Curvature : Explanation of Continuity▶Curvature: Analyze and Assess the Quality of Curves and Surfaces→02Lofts and sweepsCreate a shape between several profiles or along a path, and control its twist.▶ 4 videosIntermediate2 in French▶Lofting · FR▶Sweeps · FR▶Sweep Profiles▶Sweep Orientation and Twist→03Building a part from surfacesExtruded, revolved and swept surfaces, trimmed, knit and then thickened.▶ 2 videosIntermediate▶Surface Modeling: Case Study▶Surface Modeling: Complex Blends→04Blends and transitionsFill a gap, blend two shapes, boundary surfaces and freeform deformations.▶ 4 videosAdvanced▶Creating a Blend or Fade▶Filling a Gap with a Loft or Boundary▶Boundary Surfaces▶Freeform Feature→05Repairing and editing imported geometryImport Diagnostics, deleting faces and holes, untrimmed surfaces.▶ 3 videosIntermediate▶Repairing Imported Geometry▶Editing Imported Geometry▶Untrim Surfaces→To go further, Dassault Systèmes also offers the learning paths Surfaces (on MySolidWorks).
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