The intention of this book is to provide you with a guide for designing package structure and packaging mechanism with SolidWorks 2012. The intended audience is the student, engineer and persons involved in designing packaging structure, product design and mechanical design.
The design examples in the chapters are simplified versions of real world designs. The chapter sequences are arranged from basic skills to more advanced skills. It is assumed that the reader has some familiarity with SolidWorks.
Topics Covered
Sketching and solid modeling
The Helix tool and Reference Plane
Trim and mirror entities
Assembling many part drawings into a more complicated assemble drawing
3-point Arcs and copying sketches from one plane to another plane
Sheet metal functions and die cut drawing
Cavity and split approaches for designing a mold
Calculating fill volumes and using PhotoView 360
Creating a bill of materials for assembly instructions and documentation
Sketching complicated components
Creating 2D detail drawings from part drawings
Advanced mate, subassembly, adding screws and nuts based on the Design Library
Creating the exploded views
Computers & technology
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