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SOLIDWORKS Composer Training

Length: 3 days

 

Prerequisites: Experience with the Windows operating system.

 

Description: Teaches you how to use the SOLIDWORKS Composer software to create 2D and 3D output from CAD design data. This course is compatible with versions V6R2013.

 

The topics covered in this course are:

  

 

Lesson 1: Quick Start

  • Quick Look at SOLIDWORKS Composer

 

 

Lesson 2: Getting Started

  • What is the SOLIDWORKS Composer Application?

  • Starting SOLIDWORKS Composer

  • SOLIDWORKS Composer Terminology

  • SOLIDWORKS Composer User Interface

  • Preferences and Document Properties

  • Creating 2D Output

  • Exercise 1: User Interface

  • Exercise 2: Terminology

 

Lesson 3: Creating Cover and Detail Images

  • Overview

  • Views

  • Rendering Tools

  • Navigation Tools

  • Camera Alignment Tools

  • Create 2D Output

  • Digger

  • Exercise 3: Navigation Tools

  • Exercise 4: Digger

  • Exercise 5: Updating Views

 

Lesson 4: Creating an Exploded View

  • Overview

  • Visibility Tools

  • Exploded Views

  • Collaborative Actors

  • Styles

  • Vector Graphics Output

  • Exercise 6: Exploded View

  • Exercise 7: Styles

  • Exercise 8: Markups and Annotations

  • Exercise 9: Visibility and Rendering Tools

 

Lesson 5: Creating Additional Exploded Views

  • Overview

  • Paper Space

  • Importing Files

  • File Types

  • Update Views with Selected Actors

  • Align Actors

  • Explode Lines

  • Custom Views

  • Linking Between Views

  • Exercise 10: Importing Assemblies

  • Exercise 11: Merging and Aligning Actors

  • Exercise 12: Custom Views

 

  

Lesson 6: Creating Bills of Materials

  • Overview

  • Bill of Materials

  • Vector Graphics Output

  • Another BOM Table

  • Assembly Level BOM

  • Exercise 13: Exploded Views, BOMs, and Callouts

  • Exercise 14: Assembly Level BOMs

  • Exercise 15: Vector Graphics Files

 


Lesson 7: Creating a Marketing Image

  • Overview

  • Selections

  • Textures

  • Lighting

  • Scenes

  • High Resolution Image

  • Exercise 16: Lights and Textures

  • Exercise 17: Render Effects

 

Lesson 8: Creating an Animation

  • Overview

  • Timeline Pane

  • Position Keys

  • Exercise 18: Creating an Explode Animation

 


Lesson 9: Creating Interactive Content

  • Overview

  • Selections in the Key Track

  • Position and Property Keys

  • Filters

  • Animating Collaborative Actors

  • Digger Keys

  • Events

  • Exercise 19: Managing the Timeline Pane

  • Exercise 20: Animating Changes to Actors

  • Exercise 21: Events

 

Lesson 10: Creating a Walkthrough Animation

  • Overview

  • Camera Keys

  • Adding Views to the Timeline

  • Grids

  • Additional Camera Functionality

  • Exercise 22: Camera Keys 1

  • Exercise 23: Camera Keys 2

 

  

Lesson 11: Creating an Explode and Collapse Animation

  • Overview

  • Assembly Selection Mode

  • Scenarios

  • Exercise 24: Animating Actors and the Digger

  • Exercise 25: Compound Motion and Scenarios

 

 

Lesson 12: Updating SOLIDWORKS Composer Files

  • Overview

  • Update an Entire Assembly

  • Changing the Geometry of an Actor

  • Exercise 26: Updating from CAD

 

Lesson 13: Publishing from SOLIDWORKS Composer

  • Overview

  • Preparing a File for Publishing

  • Publishing to PDF

  • Publishing inside Microsoft Word

  • Publishing to HTML

  • Exercise 27: Publishing to PDF

  • Exercise 28: Publishing inside Microsoft Word

  • Exercise 29: Publishing inside HTML

 

  

Appendix A: Additional Applications and Workshops

  • Overview

  • SOLIDWORKS Sync and SOLIDWORKS Enterprise Sync

  • SOLIDWORKS Composer Check

  • SOLIDWORKS Composer Path Planning

  • Simplification Workshop

 

 

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