This festive multi-body part shows a few alternate methods for creating geometry. A spiral is projected onto the glass using a split line curve to create the etching. There is a cool example of the indent command removing material, similar to the intersect command, to create an accurate body for the liquid. Other features in the model include: revolves, move/copy body, and a linear pattern. There are two display states, one to show the liquid isolated from the other solid bodies. Download this file to learn more about spirals, the indent feature and display states.

You don't just play this board game, you must survive it. This fun multi-body model is mainly created from extruded bosses and a few cuts. One sketch picture is used to help create the walls and dividers of the box enclosure. There is a unique example of circular pattern of two circular patterns. Other features in the model include: thin revolves, move/copy body, split line curves, reference axis, mirrors and one sketch driven pattern.The "crystal ball" half dome is "layered" to give a cool semitransparent effect. There are two custom decals used in this model.This part has two configurations, each with a different riddle or message in the crystal ball.Download this model to learn more about sketch pictures, custom decal creation and patterns.

This festive model demonstrates hybrid modeling. It is modeled with mostly solid body features, with the center intersection created with a handful of surface features. The clavicle is created with a "center line" loft which acts like a loft with a sweep path. A projected curve which "merges" two 2D sketches to make a 3D curve is used for the "sweep path" for the unique "center line" loft. Surface body features in the part include: boundary surfaces, surfaces fills, surface knits and one surface trim. There is one example of "delete face" used to turn solid bodies into surface bodies. Download this model to learn more about hybrid modeling and how to create a projected curve.

This festive model is multi-body part. It has two curve driven patterns to make up most of the cornucopia's shape. The curve driven patterns use 3D sweeps as construction geometry to control the shape of the patterns. To create the cornucopia tapered, horn-like geometry, several scale features are used, some uniform and some non-uniform, to adjust the ring sizes. The scale feature is also used in conjunction with move body features to quickly make two larger size pumpkins from one small one. Multiple "Move/Copy Body" commands are used for translation or rotation of bodies and in some cases for creating extra solid bodies to fill in gaps in the cornucopia's tail.Other features include a combine, centerline loft, and cut with surface. There are three revolves including a mid-plane revolve. There are multiple swept cuts including one with a twist, simulating a helical curve. "Insert, Part..." with the "Break link to original part" option is used to directly copy the original pumpkin features to save time, not having to recreate geometry from scratch without having any references back to the pumpkin part. Download this file to learn more about curve driven patterns, uniform and non-uniform scaling and how to copy and move solid bodies.

This familiar hammer packs a nice punch in trying to show some time saving modeling techniques. This multi-body part is made using mostly extrudes and a few sweeps sprinkled in. This model uses thin features for some of the extruded bosses and cuts to speed up sketch time. Mirroring geometry and patterns are used to save time and to keep the feature count down.There is one example of a split line. There is an example of circular profile sweep introduced in SOLIDWORKS 2016 which is another time saver. Other features include a linear pattern, circular pattern, combine, cut with Surface, offset surface, multiple sweeps and swept cuts.Download this file to learn some time saving tricks and learn about Mjölnir from Asgard.

This model of a famous spear shows how to make advanced geometry without using surface features. This part was created with only standard solid body features. Even though the final model is a single body, there are some multi-body techniques to allow for isolated cuts and a shell feature not affecting the whole part. The features used in the trident part include: revolves, lofts, move face, combine, mirror, scale and one delete face. There are multiple loft features including two "centerline" lofts that act like "swept lofts". The scale feature is used twice to save time reducing the size of geometry in a pattern versus creating smaller versions from scratch. There is one example of a face fillet using the hold line option. Download this file to learn more about lofts and another way to create geometry similar to lofts.

Just in time for football season we got this model ready to go with no deflategate controversy here. This fun multi-body model has some uncommon but powerful features included. There are two simple examples of curved driven patterns. There is also a "deform" feature using the "Surface push" option to slightly deflate the ball. Other features in the model include: sweeps, split line curves, reference axis, circular patterns, one thicken, and a revolved surface. There is also a split and a wrap feature in the model. One sketch picture is used to help create some of the upper geometry. This part has two configurations, one with the football geometry and one with a flat spot added to the ball. Download this model to learn more about football construction and some lesser known SOLIDWORKS features.

This part comes just in time for the baseball playoffs. This part uses a revolve to create the overall shape but sprinkles in a few surface features to create the handle wrap. The surface features include thicken, offset surface, and a surface sweep. There is one example of helical curve used in conjunction with an intersection curve to make a 3D swept cut without having to make a 3D sketch. The swept cut uses the newer circular sweep functionality to save time not having to create a profile sketch. There are multiple examples of split lines and one delete face using the "delete and patch" option. Download this file to get an easy introduction to surface modeling and to learn more about sweeps.

This part shows several different, easy to understand part patterns. There are seven patterns covering six different part pattern types. We cover some of the pattern functionality introduced recently to help users be more efficient and have more control of their patterns. There is also one example of a composite curve.The pattern list includes: Linear, Circular, Variable, Sketch Driven, Curve Driven, and Fill Pattern. Download this file to learn more about the wide variety of pattern types and functionality available in SOLIDWORKS.

This easy to understand part provides several different examples of draft faces using different draft techniques. All three types of drafts are shown here: Neutral Plane, Parting Line and Step Draft.The Step Draft has two different options, perpendicular and tapered, that are shown in model. There is also one example of move face feature which can be used as an alternative to the draft feature (Neutral Plane and Parting Line). This part has three split line features with one using the Silhouette option.Download this part to get a better grasp on different SOLIDWORKS draft options.