Learning Solidworks

[chris17]

Hi, I'm wanting to get to know solidworks a bit better I've played about with it for the passed few days and it seems like there's a lot you can do with it, is there any resources to learn more or to follow regs. to design my own things. I've looked at F1 in Schools to try and read the regs. So I might design my own etc.

Any more?

Thanks in Advance

[PNSD]

Im sure they wont me pointing this out, but in a similar posistion to you ive recieved help from tomislavp4 and machin.

If you search soldiworks posts I think there are some pointers about.

The one thing I realized was, despite people making it look easy, and despite solidworks being a nice program to learn, and good to pick things up on be prepared to spend alot of time on getting even the smallest thing right. Rewarding at the cost of time.

I just realized, if it's say F1 ive found for front/rear wings this little item has been very useful. The F1 regulations are quite difficult to read at times, this puts it into a nice perspective which is easy to read/understand.

As for generally making things on solidworks ive noticed alot of tutorials require payment but google has been very friendly to me.

http://www.f1technical.net/articles/11634

[Jersey Tom]

There are plenty of tutorial books out there.

[riff_raff]

chris17,

Solidworks is actually one of the easier modelling softwares to learn. But unfortunately, it also has somewhat limited capabilities compared to other applications like CATIA V5.

I don't know where you live, but I live in southern California, and most of the local junior colleges around here offer evening courses to learn Solidworks, and the tuition cost is quite inexpensive.

Also, be careful about advertising the fact that you have a bootleg copy of Solidworks. Dassault normally frowns on such things.

Good luck.
Terry

[xxChrisxx]

To be honest if you are just starting out and looking at basic modelling, the solidworks tutorals are very good. Solidworks software is really easy to use and can be learnt by just playing around with it. You'll quickly learn how to use all the features.

Parametric modelling is more tricky to learn, that really does require tuition to get nailed. This is the 'thought process' behind making the part.