SOLIDWORKS: Utilities Suite
32mBeginner2019-04-09
Authors
David Antanavige
Mechanical Engineer and CAD Educator
Course details
Discover how to take advantage of SOLIDWORKS Utilities, a set of tools that allow you to examine in detail the geometry of a solid model and make comparisons to other models. In this course, instructor David Antanavige walks through how to work with the different features in this suite. Learn how to use Geometry Analysis, Report Manager, Thickness Analysis, the Compare utility, and more. Upon wrapping up this course, you’ll be ready to start leveraging these tools to enhance your designs in SOLIDWORKS.
Learning objectives
Running the Compare utility
Working with Geometry Analysis
Using the Report Manager feature
Working with the Simplify and Symmetry Check utilities
Using Power Select and Thickness Analysis
Learning objectives
Running the Compare utility
Working with Geometry Analysis
Using the Report Manager feature
Working with the Simplify and Symmetry Check utilities
Using Power Select and Thickness Analysis
Skills covered
SOLIDWORKSDassaultManufacturingProduct and Industrial DesignProduct and ManufacturingDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Discover the power that lurks in the SOLIDWORKS Utilities menu
- 02 - Activating SOLIDWORKS Utilities
1. SOLIDWORKS Utilities - Compare Utility
- 03 - Running the Compare utility
- 04 - Compare results
- 05 - Setting Compare options
2. SOLIDWORKS Utilities - Geometry Analysis
- 06 - Geometry Analysis options
- 07 - Running Geometry Analysis
3. SOLIDWORKS Utilities - Report Manager
- 08 - Using the Report Manager feature
- 09 - Saving the reports
4. SOLIDWORKS Utilities - Continued
- 10 - Feature Paint
- 11 - Find Modify utility
- 12 - Find and Replace Annotation
- 13 - Power Select
- 14 - Simplify utility
- 15 - Symmetry Check utility
- 16 - Thickness Analysis
Conclusion
- 17 - Next steps