SolidWorks Tutorials – First Sketch Welcome back to our SolidWorks Tutorials for Beginners series. This is our seventh lesson, and in it we’ll take up our first sketch. To begin a sketch from the main SolidWorks screen, first you create a new part document. Click the New button at the top of the command manager: […]
SolidWorks Tutorials for Beginners – The SolidWorks Interface, part 4 Welcome back to our SolidWorks Tutorials for Beginners series. This is our fourth lesson about the SolidWorks interface. In our previous lesson we’d finished learning about Command Manager–that’s the ribbon of tools and tabs at the top of your SolidWorks screen, as well as how […]
CATIA Tutorials Part 2 – Basic CATIA training by www.video-tutorials.net Please visit our CATIA tutorials playlist at YouTube>> Basic CATIA Questions That People Ask Us – part 2 (CATIA tutorials) What is a feature? A feature is the essential building block of a solid model in any 3D CAD software. You start with 2D geometry, like […]
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CATIA tutorials beginner / basic CATIA training – All About CATIA part 1 by www.Video-Tutorials.Net CATIA Training, The Basics! Background and History CATIA stands for Computer Aided Three-Dimensional Interactive Application. It is also how you say “Kathy” in Russian or Italian, but you pronounce the software name “kah-TEE-ah”. This is the software that’s used by the […]
SolidWorks Tutorials for Beginners – The Interface, part 3 Welcome back! We’re continuing with our SolidWorks Tutorials for Beginners Series on the www.Video-Tutorials.Net blog, and this is part 3 Welcome to part three of this tutorial about the SolidWorks interface. We’ll pick up right where we left off in part 2, exploring the options of […]
SolidWorks Tutorials for Beginners – The Interface, pt.2 Welcome back, to our SolidWorks Tutorials for Beginners Series. This is part 2 of the SolidWorks Tutorials – Interface section. In my previous lesson, we’d left off at customizing the Command Manager. The Command Manager, as you may remember, is that strip of commands known as a ribbon at […]
SolidWorks Tutorials – The Interface, pt.1 Welcome to the next installment of our SolidWorks tutorials for Beginners series. In this document I’ll be teaching you about the SolidWorks interface. When you open SolidWorks, you’ll see the screen that I have excerpted below, gray in the center with the SolidWorks logo, and some tools and menu […]
Want to know what’s new in SolidWorks 2014? The new http://www.video-tutorials.net/ SolidWorks 2014 Video Tutorial Update is now available. SolidWorks 2014 offers numerous improvements to tools in the sketching, modeling, assembly, sheet metal, eDrawing, and surface modeling environments, but there are no major cosmetic changes, so our existing courseware is of course applicable to SolidWorks […]
Question: I use a Mac / iPad/ iPhone / Android tablet / Android phone. Can I see your SolidWorks tutorials? Answer: Why, yes! Not just the SolidWorks tutorials, but all the tutorials. While the downloaded courses and the discs can be used on a Windows operating system, you can see our courses via our online […]
Question: In Autodesk Inventor can you please tell me how I can move faces by rotating them about an axis and/or a specific point? Every other sold modeling software I have used this is easy to do. I can’t figure this out, nor can I find any instructions for it. I would really appreciate it […]
SolidWorks question: When I insert a bolt in the assembly environment, why does it insert the wrong way? Answer: Press the Tab key to change the orientation before you release the left mouse button when you drag in a bolt from the library. If this doesn’t work, create the appropriate mate after you insert the […]
SolidWorks Tutorials – Part 3 – What is Fast Start? Welcome to the third chapter of our SolidWorks Tutorials for Beginners series, published by Video-Tutorials.Net. SolidWorks now has what’s called a Fast Start option. If you enable it, it allows SolidWorks to load a lot more quickly than usual, in just a few seconds rather […]
What’s New in SolidWorks 2014? Hey there, I’ve been getting some questions about what’s new in SolidWorks 2014. And, of course, yes, our 2013 SolidWorks tutorial courseware still applies! We’ll be issuing a video course about some of the design module updates in SolidWorks. The new release of SolidWorks includes some tool tweaks, but no major functional […]
New SolidWorks ToolBox Video Tutorial just released 88 minutes, 28 videos. $25; available online and via downloaded (both included in the price). What is SolidWorks ToolBox? It’s a great little library utility used by SolidWorks. Your default installation of SolidWorks won’t have it enabled however; you’ll need to go through the “add-in” process to make […]
SolidWorks Tutorials – Part 2 – What is Parametric Modeling? Welcome to the second of our SolidWorks tutorials for beginners. Part 2 of this SolidWorks Tutorials series is about parametric modeling. If you are new to CAD software, you may be wondering what the heck parametric modeling means, and why it is so important. The […]
A whole lot of Recording, Mixing & Mastering tutorials! by Video-Tutorials.net– September 13, 2013 Allo everybody! Hey, I’ve posted a whole lot of videos about recording, mixing and mastering on youtube. If you’re interested in do-it-yourself home studio work, there are now hours of free music recording tutorials up on youtube. It covers how to […]
New SolidWorks Tutorials Playlists and SolidWorks Tutorials Updates We’ve just published numerous updates to our SolidWorks tutorials video library. You can see many of these new tutorials on our youtube playlists, which are cited below. Be sure to enter “youtube” in our shopping cart at checkout to save 10% on any video tutorials. Reminder, you […]
SolidWorks 2014 is out! SolidWorks 2014 software is released, and stay tuned for our SolidWorks tutorials updates course.The dates for the next expo & the location are secured! SolidWorks World 2014 will be held at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California on January 26-29, 2014. For more info and to register, please […]
SolidWorks Tutorials – New Utilities course. We’ve just published a new course on SolidWorks, about Utilities. You may be wondering what the heck Utilities is… well, these are the SolidWorks tools (in the standard edition) that let you compare and analyze your entities and part / assembly documents. The tools and their interfaces are simple […]
SolidWorks Tutorials – Introduction Welcome to SolidWorks! SolidWorks is a 3D parametric modeling software package and is probably the most commonly used 3D CAD software on the market today. A good place to begin your SolidWorks training is on the SolidWorks website at www.solidworks.com. Fig 01 – The SolidWorks website at www.solidworks.com > Support > […]
You asked for it! We have had many requests to provide some documentation for basic SolidWorks training. I will be posting a series of PDFs for SolidWorks tutorials, at the beginner level, at least ten of them. Here’s what’s in the first few: 01 – Introduction to SolidWorks – SolidWorks Tutorials This tutorial covers the basics […]
Hey, just a quick post about new Inventor tutorials. Thanks so much for all your support and for asking how we weathered the big Calgary flood in late June! In fact, we ended up moving in July, and so both of these events took up about eight weeks of our development time! But we will […]
What’s the difference between Inventor iLogic and Inventor Fusion, and Inventor itself (Inventor Professional and Inventor LT) by Video-Tutorials.net– July 5, 2013 Just in reply to a couple questions I’ve had from customers about what is the difference between the various Inventor products… there’s Inventor Professional, Inventor Fusion, Inventor iLogic, Inventor LT and more. And […]
SolidWorks Beginner Tutorials – What is Top Down Assembly? A common question we hear asked by beginner SolidWorks users is, “What’s a “top-down” assembly? This working strategy applies to any 3D CAD software modeller, such as CATIA, Inventor and others, not just SolidWorks, but I’ll post it here at our SolidWorks pages for quick reference, […]