SolidWorks Tips For Designing Offroad Parts!

[@tonybush2]

Heck yeah, I have been working at learning solidworks, but nothing out there like what you guys are doing. Good to see a video like this. Can't wait to watch it

[@WingsWorldChannel]

I hope it helps you in your endeavors!

[@tonybush2]

@@WingsWorldChannel really good video, I like the idea of incorporating sheet metal I havnt used it yet, but I will now...by the way lol look into using mouse gestures for your access to shortcuts. I like it better then the s key

[@tonybush2]

For shortcuts I would suggest looking into mouse gestures

[@coltonadkison3475]

Was going to suggest this. Definitely recommend using mouse gestures over using the S key.

[@isotope_yt]

dude, great freaking video. so important to bridge the gap between CAD and modern truck builds. I definitely needed this.

[@Jack-lk1sg]

I learned the basics of solidworks in college classes and it's interesting to see the differences between what I learned and what is learned from hands on experience.

[@dylantaylor8931]

Bro. I really appreciate this upload. I can find lots of SW videos and tutes but there's fuck all out there that is off road specific. You putting this stuff out there is a life saver and hope you find the time to make more videos like this and publish them. Cheers mate!

[@Hhhfsfxc]

Its a very very very very simple single part design you can do it with very very very basic skills in solidworks. You just need to understand what you want, because you dont know what you want you dont understand what you need, easy. Cheers.

[@dylantaylor8931]

@@Hhhfsfxc what you said is blanket true but I don’t really understand it’s relevance. I’m just saying it’s great watching someone work with a tool for a specific use case and picking up on the little details to make it more efficient and streamlined for that.

[@Hhhfsfxc]

Yes you right. To be more practical, people who want to design need to understand that you need to actually measure in real life and then use SW to design. For this level of design, who dont have an academic background can find a lot of resources for SW CSWA test, and after this, everybody should feel comfortable design parts at this level.

[@Barrenfab]

Please do more of these. I'd love to see you draw that steering part.

[@BentFabrications]

Fantastic info! Be sure to call out the shortcuts your hitting on the keyboard. Info like this is invaluable to the guys that are learning as they go, finding little tricks and tips in each video.

[@SteelSculptor]

try the gesture based short cuts for SW, right click and drag, then a selection wheel comes up with context specific tools. The tools in the wheel can be customized. So fast for sketching.

[@keithw372]

the t is not silent in fillet, js

[@ritchiewalker6194]

Exactly what i needed to watch cheers man

[@KevinHiggins22]

So much here… I learned a ton of thing I really didn’t know, thanks for the video, keep up the great work!!!

[@paulcmad]

So good man. A simple shot video on overlays would be cool or even a follow-up video that incorporate the tips folks have given in the comments to help folks visualize …….. great content dude

[@Petresco100]

Dude! Great tutorial! I'm on third year mechanical engineering right now, with focus on SW and CAD modelling, and I still learned a lot from this video! Keep it up!

[@JeromeDemers]

I use the right click mouse gesture when sketching. One less mouse click each time.

[@ItalianAvalanche]

Some advice for SW that can help with things like tube frame design: weldments, expanded weldment libraries, and 3D sketches. The weldment environment let's you sweep pre-loaded cross section shapes down sketch entities. The default weldment profile library is very limited. You can download a massively expanded library from Dassault Systems for free. This expanded library contains a ton of stuff that I needed for work like I beams and C channels but also has a lot of DOM round tube that fabricators like you guys would use for tube frames and cages. The second thing that greatly improved my design work is the 3D sketch. It's kind of weird to get started and it's kind of finicky but once you get the hang of making 3D wireframes you can very easily shoot your weldment profiles down any shape wireframe guide. I would use this approach for designing work platforms and structural steel work but it is also excellent for tube frames. Once you get the wireframe created the weldment feature allows you to very easily apply or change which shape you want at which line segment. It also automatically notches the segments where they meet together. It's a really great combination of tools for tube frame work.

[@ChrisZBr0wn]

Here's a tip! While it can sometimes be great to have everything in a single base sketch, other times it's very nice to have the holes in a different feature. Allows for faster edits in the future, knowing your base feature is a Boss Extrude or Base Flange/Tab, and the holes are in either the Hole Feature or Cut Extrude. Also, its a good idea to label your main features in the Design Tree. Three months from now you may forget why you did something or what the feature was for. Great video and really good tips.

[@WingsWorldChannel]

Never thought about naming features, thank you for the tip!!

[@JacopoSkydweller]

100% agree. 5+ years of SW experience has taught me to make relatively simple sketches, and then name the feature. It's much easier to edit things down the road (pun intended), and if you ever send your part to somebody else with Solidworks, they will be able to comprehend it much easier. Also: Hole wizard is your best friend, get familiar with it, use it. Edit* Modeling threads is expensive for the computer to model. I try and name the features/parts 1/2"-13 x 2"L or some such, then skip adding threads. It doesn't matter so much in little models/assemblies, but it won't do you any favors other than looking pretty. If you are importing models from say McMaster Carr, you can go in and suppress the threads without breaking the model.

[@ItalianAvalanche]

Great tips. Naming really helps. I really like using the hole wizard because it creates great info when used with the hole callout feature in drawings. I like to put as much info as I can in the sketch but like OP I prefer to just put a point where I want the hole and the create the actual hole with hole wizard. With the position controlled by the sketch and the hole type controlled by the wizard you can easily go back and change the holes parameters, even changing between thru hole, countersink, counterbore etc without having to make changes to the sketch.

[@joshhagen4182]

Also amazing tutorial! Great refresher for my self helping me build confidence in doing the front suspension on my 83 gmc, I started with taking engineering in highschool and learning cad here I am seven years later

[@tramplemusic8364]

My Man. So helpful! Subscribed.

[@joshhagen4182]

Fusion 360 is a relatively cheap option that can be free if you are a student etc, I would love to get solid works when I can afford it... fusion 360 prolly lacks a good amount of tools than solid works, but still has a lot for beginners. Thank you Jake!

[@WingsWorldChannel]

Thank you for watching!

[@lukekolodziej9631]

This is an awesome video man, even for the experienced guys like you said. I learned a few great shortcuts from this, thanks!

[@ctsugusergroup1397]

One great way to learn Solidworks is to find a local user group and attend the meetings. Many great ideas and tips ca; be found there

[@chaz9metal]

Super cool skill to know!

[@tylerhendrix8518]

This.... this is what I was looking for

[@nathanm8443]

Your content is so dope! This is very helpful for me, my dream is to become a fabricator and your videos kinda show me what it’s like to build trucks and parts. I love your content keep it up!

[@ArcadeNeverDie]

Really great work, this video a solid resource!! keep it up

[@tjjeepin6774]

Great video. That's awesome! That would have taken me hours in Fusion 360.

[@ryanfisher328]

How did you buy solidworks? im only seeing it for sale around $250/month

[@nrs91]

thanks for the shortcut key tip... I will trade you another tip... to end a train of drawn lines you can just double click in blank space... means you don't have to reselect the line tool afterwards!

[@domsterling8573]

Awesome vid! The proper labeling form is called Geometric Dimension and Tolerance (GD&T). Idk how useful it is in the manufacturing industry now that you can just give machinist the 3d file, but if you’re fabricating manually it can be helpful.

[@xuv5607]

When would you add a key way for ease of alignment and welding?

[@WingsWorldChannel]

I could have used one here to join the large piece with the one butted up to it (not sure if that makes sense). Everything I have been designing so far I have done with the intention of cutting things out by hand. When doing things by hand, keys become a pain in the butt. Hopefully this will change in the future!

[@joell439]

Fantastic Video - Thank you! I learned several things on how to use Solidworks more efficiently than I have been. 👍👍😎👍👍

[@WingsWorldChannel]

That was exactly my goal! I am glad you found the video useful

[@nickvasquez85]

Thank you so much. I was looking for more off road related sheet/plate metal examples. Where do you find miss align and heim models?

[@rjewing850]

Saw a few of these in the notes but: Use the origin as a base point. If a box, use the center. This allows for a reference point and easier inserts into assemblies. If an odd shape, find a point easy to reference off. Using the default planes also make it easy to add a center line thru the part. With a center line planes, features, or bodied can be rotated or referenced from it. “Right click” on the mouse for short cuts, make sure you set it to at least 8, think defaults is 4. Dimensioning with a center line. Pulling a dimension past a center line will “split” the dims. Use the “hole wizard”. This will allow you to choose size, depth, thread, and number. If making drawing it will auto call out the hole specs. If you need a “clearance” hole, it will have the machinist presets or you can change the setting. Weldments, definitely helps with parts list. Also makes it easy to insert bodies for drawing template printing, similar to part/assembly but pulled off one part model. If you need part models, McMaster.com has lots of store bought part models.

[@WingsWorldChannel]

I have used McMaster a lot as well! I was going to mention it in the video but it was already getting to be long. I am still confused on why I should center things on the origin, how does that help?

[@rjewing850]

@@WingsWorldChannel Makes it easier in assemblies. Sometime planes make better mating surfaces. Measuring off planes become handy too. Not all parts can be centered but at least a known starting point, with a simple part as you were drawing, not as big of a deal but more complex parts it becomes easier to reference. Everyone draws different and there are different ways to do everything. One of my pet peeves is opening up a drawing and the planes aren’t centered on the part making it even harder to understand how the part was drawn and what am I suppose to reference the new modification off of. Extruding mid plane has a better chance of keeping the feature reference (holes, cuts, extrusions) on the extruded faces. BTW, cool last name.

[@wadelumsden1548]

Do you ever use Stress analysis on your parts? or simulate complex assemblies?

[@matthewschwartz6919]

Just in my experience I've learned to mostly avoid the sketch fillet, and I prefer to add fillets or corner breaks to an existing body. If you decide you don't want the radiused corners down the road, it's trickier to remove the radii in the sketch and then merge the end points of two lines, or if you have 10 sketch fillets, merging 20 points. I know you used the fillets to center the bolt holes, so doing what others said and adding the holes in a separate feature would still allow you to do that after you've added the fillets. Obviously there are many ways to achieve the same thing, and the more time you spend in Solidworks, the more you'll develop your own methods of designing parts. Also something that made me laugh, the pronunciation of fillet is "fill it" not "filay". And coincident is just like coincidence but with a T, not "co-inside-ent". Keep it up though!

[@WingsWorldChannel]

That is a very good point about fillets, I will use that method from now on. haha I noticed that I pronounced fillet that way when I was editing. I guess I have been hitting Chik Fila too much

[@josecarrillo1244]

Can I use blender for this kind of stuff ?

[@badgermetal]

Perfect timing. 👍

[@WingsWorldChannel]

Thats what I am talking about!

[@DJ-yp4kc]

Very Good! A++

[@maxmaz2]

Great vid! Try closing some of those add-ins and that'll help speed up SW.

[@WingsWorldChannel]

That is a good idea, didn't know that was slowing things down. Thank you for the tip!

[@dennisfant2620]

Love the great work yall do and information on builds. But could you please dump the tick music? Thanks for showing this information on a design.

[@ruubguus4321]

Great 👍

[@coopersgarage3139]

Very helpful🤘🏻😎

[@Tonygue3978]

you can try to get in contact with your local university engineering club. we would have solidworks workshops all the time for baja and formula SAE. they may be able to share tons of time saving tricks.

[@altontsinnijinnie5990]

How do i, get the Solid Works software?

[@TTMotorsports]

Awesome tips I can draw the basic parts but converting to sheet metal to cut out with dxf files have been throwing me for a loop. Glad I found this video and am starting to draw some new stuff right now.

[@WingsWorldChannel]

Glad this helped you out Tommy!!

[@TTMotorsports]

@@WingsWorldChannel yeah making a solid piece to do the width is one thing I was missing. I would move the plane and redraw it on that. That tip alone was awesome for me.

[@mada310]

Is the Standard Solidworks program really $4k a year? Are there any better options than Fusion360 for someone looking to build affordable parts for themselves? How about Bend Tech for sheet metal work?

[@baldeaglegarage]

No its $4k one time fee. If you buy a subscription, that is for updates and training that reseller typically want you to get. You can get SW for free for the first year if you qualify as a startup. Also you can get it from local college that participates in the education credits. That is a student version, but you can do what he did here with it.

[@mada310]

@Bald Eagle Garage Ahh, I see. Thank you!

[@BuildSomethingAuto]

I'd recommend using the right click menu, much quicker than S IMO. Also I'd highly recommend NAMING all your features, and use a separate feature for things like mounting bolt holes or anything you feel you might need to change later. That way if you do need to change it it's much quicker and easier to find - makes a big difference on larger assemblies. Overall pretty well done for someone who is self taught😉 I had plenty of engineers in my solid modeling classes who were much worse then you at solidworks 🤣

[@WingsWorldChannel]

Thank you for the comment haha! I will definetely start naming my features and I will look into the right click menu.

[@guambomb671]

🤙

[@dilanbashaw4235]

Do your brother have KZbin channel??

[@zzefinho]

Dislike cause using inches

[@JBizzle822]

Why does solid works gotta be so expensive.