Digital Tutors - Designing a Windmill Tower from Photo Reference in Solidworks

Duration 5h Project Files Included MP4

Throughout this SolidWorks tutorial we?ll discuss how to utilize an in-context assembly

design approach. This uses a sketch part on top of the feature manager tree to drive all of

the parts and their associated features within the assembly.

By the end of this SolidWorks training, you?ll find it easy to create and manage generalized

modeling relationships and modifications with fast updates and less opportunity for errors.

1. Introduction and project overview

2. Introducing the assembly, background and model tours

3. Creating geometry intended for sketch block profiles

4. Forming our first sketch block for the tower leg profile

5. Executing our second sketch block

6. Producing our third sketch block

7. Creating the tower leg with sketch blocks

8. Adding details to the tower leg

9. Creating the last of three configurations

10. Defining the height and width of the tower

11. Completing our defining sketch part

12. Beginning to assemble our windmill tower

13. Inserting the rest of our tower legs

14. Discussing our sketch geometry

15. Adding more sketch geometry for support

16. Creating the horizontal supports

17. Installing our horizontal supports

18. Putting our assemblies together

19. Creating the gusset plate as an in-context part

20. Inserting fasteners from the SolidWorks toolbox

21. Implanting square head nuts and bolts

22. Solving potential problems with fasteners

23. Generating the cross support parts

24. Measuring our assembly for the cross support parts

25. Creating a new cross support part

26. Finalizing the cross section supports

27. Inserting the new cross supports into our assembly

28. Completing the cross support insertion

29. Cleaning up our model

30. Applying our modeling approach