Solidworks Component Patterns for Assemblies

What you’ll learn

• Linear Component Pattern
• Circular Component Pattern
• Pattern Driven Component Pattern
• Sketch Driven Component Pattern
• Curve Driven Component Pattern
• Chain Component Pattern

Requirements
Basic SolidWorks Assembly experience
Access to SolidWorks

Description
This course will teach you how to utilize the pattern features found in SolidWorks assemblies. This includes Linear, Circular, Pattern Driven, Sketch Driven, Curve Driven, and Chain Component Patterns. By using these, you can drastically reduce the time you spend in assemblies both while you’re making them for the first time, as well as when edits and changes are made in the future. With just a few simple clicks, you could fill an assembly with hundreds of nuts and bolts.

We will NOT be covering the mirror component feature, as I feel that is better suited for a course teaching advanced modeling techniques considering some of the things you can do with it.

The good news is: you don’t need a lot of experience either! If you’ve at least opened assemblies before and moved a few parts around, you’ll be able to handle creating patterns just fine. No component modeling/drawing experience is required for this course. At one point in the course we take a look at a component level feature, but I guide you through that step by step.

Once you complete this course and start using what you’ve learned in your own workplace, you’ll quickly realize just how easy it is to impress those around you with just a few easy SolidWorks tricks.

What you’ll learn
Speeding up modeling time in SolidWorks Assemblies