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Modelling Tips & Tricks • • • •
Useful Shortcut Keys in SOLIDWORKS How to conquer fillet error When Delete Face doesn’t work Zero-Thickness Combine error
Useful Shortcut Keys • • • •
Model Navigation Sketch Feature Assembly
Useful Shortcut Keys
Model Navigation • • • • • •
Select : Normal to the screen Select + Shift : Rotate around axis Select + shift+Ctrl: Rotate around axis in reverse Select + Alt : Rotate by increment Select + Alt +Ctrl: Rotate by increment in reverse F/ Double click: Zoom to fit
Useful Shortcut Keys
Sketch A : Change the option type
ALT + P ALT + C
ALT +C : Change to construction line
ALT + I ALT + T
Going back through the Red Dot for Restore
Useful Shortcut Keys
Assembly Shift +C : Collapse the feature manager at assembly level Home : Show the Top of the feature tree End : Show the Bottom of the feature tree Tab : Hide whatever the cursor is over SHIFT + TAB : Bring them back
Modelling Tips & Tricks • • • •
Useful Shortcut Keys in SOLIDWORKS How to conquer fillet error When Delete Face doesn't work Zero-Thickness Combine error
How to conquer fillet error
So, you can’t add a fillet?
So, you can’t add a fillet? Despite SOLIDWORKS cryptic error messages, fillet usually fail because:
• The Software is unable to extend one or more faces along the path of the fillet giving somewhere for the fillet to end. • The fillet is too large for the geometry. It might be just a small portion of the fillet path, but it will still cause the feature to fail.
There is hope! We now know that fillet fail because they need better faces to works with.
Luckily, there are a few different techniques we can use to give SOLIDWORKS new faces to help terminate tricky fillet.
Identify Potential Fail Points The fillet mostly fail at the corner because SOLIDWORKS is unable to extend the corner faces to terminate the fillet.
Fail Point
Cut Away the Fail Point By cutting the fail point out of the model, the fillet can now be completed.
The fail point is cut out of the model
Repair the corner The missing corner of the model must be repaired. Delete Face can be used to patch the corner.
Faces are selected for deletion.
Turn OFF Tangent Propagation Failing fillets can sometimes be made to complete if Tangent Propagation is turned off. However, this will require manual selection of all edges to fillet
Tangent propagation ON
Tangent propagation OFF
Face Fillet Because of the small “Sliver” faces close to the corner, a standard fillet does not work correctly
Small faces cause problems
Desired Result
Face Fillet The face fillet tool can bridge these small faces by applying the fillet between two faces, instead of an edge.
Modelling Tips & Tricks • • • •
Useful Shortcut Keys in SOLIDWORKS How to conquer fillet error When Delete Face doesn't work Zero-Thickness Combine error
When Delete Face doesn't work
When Delete Face doesn't work
Modelling Tips & Tricks • • • •
Useful Shortcut Keys in SOLIDWORKS How to conquer fillet error When Delete Face doesn't work Zero-Thickness Combine error
Zero-Thickness Geometry From time to time you may have received one of these error messages in SOLIDWORKS • Unable to create this feature because it would result in zero-thickness geometry. Vertices where zero-thickness geometry is located Edge where zero-thickness geometry is located
Tangent line where zero-thickness geometry is located
Zero-Thickness Geometry Identify the potential area
Shortcut Keys Ctrl+N Shift + TAB Ctrl+W Ctrl+S R Ctrl+Z Shift + C Enter D Ctrl+X
Ctrl+C Ctrl+V Ctrl+B Ctrl+TAB TAB at Assem SpaceBar F F11 Home End
Ctrl+F1 L A Ctrl+8 F5 Ctrl+Q G S F8 Alt+C
Ctrl+N: Create New File
Shift + TAB Show the Hovered-over Component
Ctrl+W Close & Save a File
R Browse Recent Documents
Ctrl+Z Undo
Shift+C Collapse all Items
Enter Repeat Last Command
D Move the OK and Cancel buttons to the pointer location in the graphics area.
Ctrl+X Cut
Ctrl+C Copy
Ctrl+V Paste
Ctrl+B Rebuild
Ctrl+TAB Allow us to quickly switch between open document
TAB at Assembly Quickly hide whatever the cursor is over
SpaceBar Orientation
F Zoom to Fit
F11 Full Screen
Home Scroll to FeatureManager tree TOP
End Scroll to FeatureManager tree BOTTOM
Ctrl+F1 Display On/Off Task Pane
L Line
A Fast Switch On Command Option Toggle
Ctrl+8 Normal To
Ctrl+Q Force Regen
F5 Toggle Selection Filter Toolbar
G On/Off Magnifying Glass
S Shortcut Bar
F8 Hide/Show Display Pane
Alt+C Turn a selection into construction lines
Ctrl+S Save File
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