Solidworks Assembly Tutorial For Beginners

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Welcometo SolidWorks Assembly Tutorials for beginners and in this tutorial, you are going to learn SolidWorks assembly in very detailed manner. It is one of the important feature which helps to create your design into reality. You are making individual parts of machine or product. Assembly feature helps to combine to make product complete. As mechanical or product designer, should know how to use SolidWorks assembly features for making greater product designs. So, this free assembly tutorial will help you to learn about assembly, its user interface and various features and terms used.

Graphics area is the most important part of the assembly UI, where you are making or inserting the various parts of your design and perform assembly operation. It is just like solidworks part feature 3D graphics interface, where you move, rotate or use all assembly tools.

This is the feature which kick starts the assembly process. It helps to insert components created in part file to assembly interface. If you are following the bottom-up assembly, you can directly insert the components of your products. You can also do top-down assembly from the begin assembly feature.

It manages the assembly design views, different mates used and lists all the functions performed in the particular assembly. You can see the each of your steps in ordered manner and edit any of the steps from here.

This motion feature helps to give life to your assembly and simulate its working by applying all constraints within the mates. You can check the how your assembled product works before going to the production. Here, you can apply animation and basic motion to your work.

Mates is the parametric relationship between two or more components used in SolidWorks assembly feature. It helps to add degrees of freedom to your components as per the design. Mates function helps to link the components to assembly file and helps to add particular constrains as per the working of the parts.

Yes, it is very important to position your components in assembly interface. You have to fix the any one of the component to perform the assembly function in the graphics area. You can perform move, rotate or fix features in this graphics area. It is very important to fix the component, otherwise it will float and you cannot perform mates function within the assembly UI.

If you forgot to fix the component, SolidWorks will fix first inserted component by default. So, always insert the stationary part of your file into the SW assembly. By seeing the Features manager design tree, you can get idea about which component is fixed or float condition. The fixed component indicated as (f) before its name and (-) for the floating component.

Here, you will get list of various mates used in SolidWorks. It helps to add geometric relationship between the parts created. It also provides the degrees of freedom for the parts allocated by you. Though this, you will get idea about each types and how to use solidworks assembly.

This is the basic mates option available in SolidWorks assembly top add standard geometric relationship to the components. It contains the simple relationship like coincident, parallel, perpendicular, concentric, tangent, distance, lock and angle. All of the features are very simple to apply to all the created components without any hesitation. It comes under the mate selections in property manager, under the standard mate section.

The advanced mate is another option comes under the mate selection in property manager, which enables you to apply little more complex geometric relations between parts or components. It contains mating option such as symmetric (parts which shares symmetry between a plane), Width ( between two parallel or non-parallel faces), Path, Linear, linear coupler, and limit.

The mechanical mate is specially for mechanical product designer helpful to apply degress of freedom to their parts directly. It also comes in mates selections, in property manager under the Mechanical mate section. It contains mate options such as Cam, gear, Hinge, Rack and pinion, Screw and Universal joint.

This is one of the flexible features of SolidWorks assembly, which helps to create geometric relationships automatically. It contains geometry based mates, peg-in-hole smart mates, pattern-based mates. These mates can apply while inserting and moving components to your assembly. It will automatically creates relationship between the parts.

These are main features and functions of SolidWorks Assembly. You got a nice tour in assembly area of SolidWorks. I wish it may help you to get good skills in CAD design area. You should share this free SolidWorks tutorials for beginners blog to all friends and share your valuable Likes & comments too.

In this tutorial, learn how to create new assemblies based on SOLIDWORKS Motion Study positions. SOLIDWORKS 2016 added the ability to copy multiple components at the same time. Using this ability, users can copy parts in a Motion Study and save them into a new assembly file. Follow the steps below to create a new assembly whose parts are in the same position as during any time step of the study.

Ben was raised in Metro Detroit and went to school for Mechanical Engineering Technology at Ferris State University. He started using SOLIDWORKS in 2010 while in school after joining the Formula SAE program. After graduation, he spent time working as an engineer in the automotive, sporting goods, and furniture industries in Michigan. Ben moved to Utah to join the GoEngineer team in 2015 and has since focused on leading simulation support for our customers.

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