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Top 10 SolidWorks
Do’s and Don’ts Stan Sweet
Custom Automation Manager
TDS Automation
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CompanyProfile
Established in 1975 as General Machine Tool, acquiredTool, Die, and Custom Automation portion in 2003
Merged with Doerfer Engineering in 2004
Located in Waverly, Iowa with 185,000 Sq. Ft. Floor Space
Engineering & Manufacturing Of: – Assembly Systems
– Process Equipment
– Material Handling Systems – Packaging Equipment
– Tool & Die Systems
– Metal Forming/Processing Lines
– Weld Fixturing and Robotic Welding Systems
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Do The Simplest ThingThat Could Possibly Work
“If it is not useful or necessary, free yourself from imaginingthat you need to make it.
If it is useful and necessary, free yourself from imagining thatyou need to enhance it by adding what is not an integralpart of its usefulness or necessity.
And finally: If it is both useful and necessary and you canrecognize and eliminate what is not essential, then goahead and make it as beautifully as you can.”
– the rule of thumb for Shaker creations, from ShakerBuilt by PaulRochleau & June Sprigg
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You Aren't Gonna Need It
"Always implement things when you actually needthem, never when you just foresee that you needthem."
You save time, because you avoid designing thingsthat you turn out not to need.
Your design is better, because you avoid polluting itwith 'guesses' that turn out to be more or less
wrong but stick around anyway.”
– An Extreme Programming tenant. www.c2.com
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Top 10 Do’s and Don'ts
Based on a comp.cad.solidworks newsgroupthread “What Are The "TOP 10 DON'T DO'S" of SolidWorks “in April 2002 by Jon Miller
– as compared to modeling, best practices, filemanagement, sketching, drawing, mating, relating, user grouping, you get the idea.....
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Top 10 Do’s and Don'ts
Don’t Delete When You Can Edit
Don’t Duplicate File Names Do Use Templates
Don’t Use Default Settings
Don’t Put Up With Slow Hardware
Do Use a PDM System
Do Keep Learning
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Do Capture Your Design IntentDo Use Lots of Subassemblies
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DoCapture Your Design Intent
Limit the scope of features
Define what is important
– Function versus fabrication
Control the position of the origin
– Primary planes for mating
– Symmetry
Annotate profuselyΩ
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DoUse Lots of Subassemblies
Easier to collaborate
Increases performanceΩ
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Don’t Delete When You Can Edit
Sketch Lines
Dimension Leaders
External References
MatesΩ
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Don’t Duplicate File Names
SolidWorks uses the most convenient file.
PDM systems enforce unique namingΩ
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DoUse Templates
Part, Drawing, Assembly
Part Libraries
Feature Palettes
Skeleton Parts
Layout Sketches
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Don’t Use Default Settings
Default settings are sales tool
– Big performance hit
Windows Defaults
SolidWorks DefaultsΩ
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Don’t Put Up With Slow Hardware
Optimize for performance
Importance
– Processor
– Memory
– Graphics card
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DoUse a PDM System
Collaboration
File Management
– Stable filenames encourage in-context relations
– No temporary copies required
Reuse
Focus
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DoUse a PDM System
“We where constantly overfilling work, renamingimproperly, breaking in-context relations,releasing wrong revisions, and re-inventing the
wheel due to difficulty in retrieving existing data.”
“To summarize I do not know how we survivedwithout out it. It is the single most important andcost saving tool we have utilized.”
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Mike DuBois3D Design LeadWright Industries
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DoKeep Learning
New features
Training, CSWP
User groups – Internal
– External
Drawing standards manual comp.cad.solidworksΩ
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Maybe?Contentious Items
Avoid configurations, use separate files
Design tables
Configurations for hardware lengths
Sketch fillets versus fillet features
Subtractive versus Additive modeling
Be consistent within your organizationΩ
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Top 10 SolidWorks
Do’s and Don’ts Stan Sweet
Custom Automation Manager
TDS Automation
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