Exploring Options with the Swept Boss/Base Feature in SolidWorks
Throughout this SolidWorks tutorial, we'll cover a variety of topics, including an introduction to the design library and a more thorough look at the swept boss/base feature. Software required: SolidWorks 2012 and higher.
What you'll learn
Throughout this SolidWorks tutorial, we'll cover a variety of topics, including an introduction to the design library and a more thorough look at the swept boss/base feature. As a profile is extended along a defined path, the swept boss/base feature can be fairly simple. With the various options available and the manipulation of the profile along that path by guide curves some exotic geometry can be created that may be difficult and time consuming to produce using more common modeling tools in SolidWorks. With these options though, the feature can become potentially complicated, prone to errors and difficult to understand how it works. By the end of this SolidWorks training, you'll know that once this feature is understood and properly managed, the variety of forms that it can produce is unrivaled by another feature available. Software required: SolidWorks 2012 and higher.
Table of contents
- Introducing the Prairie Windmill Tower Assembly 10m
- Creating Sketch Profiles for the Wheel Frame 9m
- Completing the Sketch Profiles for the Wheel Frame 12m
- Exploring the Swept Boss/base Feature 12m
- Creating Our First Solid Body 10m
- Completing the First Solid Body 12m
- Generating a Design Sketch 11m
- Creating the Frame3 and Frame4 Solid Bodies 9m
- Starting the Wheel Frame Rounds Part 10m
- Continuing to Work on Our Design Sketch 10m
- Finishing Our Design Sketch 12m
- Creating the Inner and Outer Round Solid Bodies 11m
- Finishing the Inner and Outer Round Solid Bodies 12m
- Creating Our Windmill Wheel Frame Assembly 12m
- Finalizing Our Windmill Wheel Frame Assembly 6m
About the author
Chris Scarlett is a teacher and designer with 14 years of experience in Computer Aided Design program at various schools, a regional engineering firm, and for many of his own clients. He is extremely proficient in AutoCAD, Revit Architecture and SolidWorks. Many of his students describe their experiences in his project oriented classes as being efficient, effective and productive. A leader in his department at Central Washington University in "flipping" his teaching methods, he posts his classro... more