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Cool tutorial. If I could offer three bits of feedback to perhaps aid my fellow noobs: 1. If possible, a high visibility colored cursor would help considerably in keeping up with the instructors actions. White cursor on a white field is no problem if you're the one moving it, but for the viewer it's like trying to track a mosquito in room with dark walls. 2. It would give students an much greater comprehension of the "why" a step or feature is used if the instructor could describe what the individual terms mean and what their purpose is in the design. 3. If the Instructor reduced the pace of the lesson just a little, it would allow for the information to "sink in" and be processed a bit more before jumping to the next step.

This is actually so great of Titan to be doing. Not only providing the software, but also the steps to use it. Love to see it, keep it up guys.

I’m so looking forward to the cnc expert page to finally go online. I’ve done the 1-10M&L in fusion 360, mastercam and I’ve already done it in SolidWorks as soon as it went up for 20$. I did the art of fixturing, and now waiting on the 5 axis stuff to be released. I’m going to do it all, then camp in your parking lot until you give me and opportunity to work for the best damn manufacturer in America, Titans of CNC, Boom! Lol

Thanks guys. I've been wanting to brush up on solidworks since I haven't used it for a while

Glad to see someone actually making solid works tutorials (there’s so few resources out there) but PLEASE fully define your sketch next time

Hey! I'm from Europe and I'm used to use milimeters instead of inches, and it would be great if you guys released the drawings in milimeters. I'm looking foward to it!

I've been following your channel for some time, I just wanted to say thank you for all the content you release. As well as a huge thank you for putting out an affordable solution for solidworks for the next year. Thank you Titan, and thank you Solidworks!

Awesome video Titan. I just recently ran across your channel and subscribed. I’ve been using Solidworks on and off for 11 years. I’m still using Solidworks 2011. I use to do some basic CNC programming. Recently, I’ve got some products I’ve designed and your enthusiasm from your videos has gotten me excited about doing some programming again and possibly pick up a used Haas TM 1 or 2 to make them on, instead of sending the parts out to be made. It’s nothing too crazy..... Thank you for everything you are doing to get kids and others introduced to CNC machining.

You're truly opening the door to opportunity for people who desperately need it! You are a legend!

I can't imagine the act of congress it took to get Solidworks to come off their mountain. The barrier to entry with SW was why I went with Fusion .

Mr. Titan, the team and yourself are THE BEST!

Just a couple quick points. There is no need to make the points in a sketch and the use them with the hole wizard. That sketch can be done within the hole wizard. Did you notice when you trimmed out most of the angled sketch segments in the cut feature turned unconstrained (blue). They were fully constrained before and its good practice to fully constrain a sketch before closing it out. One last thing. You added a chamfer on the outside lower cut that unmachinable. Maybe leave that off for a later date where you can explain the lead-in and out required to make a chamfer on that edge. That's a nub mistake we see all the time.

You guys are the best I’m so glad I subscribed to titans of CNC this information is invaluable

Congrats to you guys for democratizing this knowledge. Hats off to you!

There is no need to make "point" sketch before Hole Wizard. You can just edit points from Hole Wizard [sketch].

omg... i used solidworks in school 6 years ago to design my whole end project, it was so easy to use, this video made me miss it lmao

for the holes you can use just holewizard works the same way without the snap points first

Thx Billy,,I am a member, and will be asking our buddy that built our PC if it has plenty of memory to upload...Crazy offer,,and thanks to Titan & the academy for all it's doing to help us old farts learn new skills,,Bear

This has Scott's name all over it!!! I love what you guys are doing!!!

I love solid works I only messed around with it never actually put together a 3D model

Hey Titan, Do you guys have any plans in the future for CMM software training?

Thank you Billy, You made getting a grasp of this process very understandable for me, keep up the teaching. I've found my next career move because of watching Titans inspiring videos. Thank you!!

Thanks for the links on your academy and Solidworks, I did forwarded it to someone who desperately need this info

I have learned to set my units first thing after starting a part in SW

Gracias estaba esperando este tipo de tutorías estoy aprendiendo con el software ...soy principiante un gran saludo desde Colombia!!! Gracias titan

Im Glad to find you Titan. Thank You

I can't begin to thank you enough for this ensight!!!!!!

You are a credit to our industry.

Great video's I love to watch them, I'm 55 year old conventional metal Miller and just this year learning cnc heidenhain in iso. Very M and G code environment This is asked ones befor is this cam program in imperial only? Or setup in metric too? Course I'm on the metric system. 😉 Thank you if answered.

Idk how you do it Titan! I'm definitely learning SW now!

can you guys please also upload the files in XT format on your webside since it makes it so damn much easier to open them in mastercam and start doing the cam on them ( i have downloaded on your side and it was a hell to convert them so i could open them in mastercam )

I am ready to open my mind. Is the $20 offer still available?

Thanks for this! Been looking for an alternative to Fusion for the company I work for, and hopefully if I can get comfortable with this within the year I have to learn it we can make a switch!

I bought the student version, I open Solidworks, get a black screen. middle gray box, some icons on top middle, some icons top right. ok? I got used books 2018, 2019, where's the common User Interface?

Are the chess pieces part of the academy? It would be nice curriculum for lathe work.

Thank you Titan! Just purchased Solidworks with your discount and can't wait to use it.

Where's the link for solid works

my Solidworks professor would have a cow if he saw blue entities. 🤷‍♀️ keep up the good work!

Great price and excellent cad software but seems to be a little problematic stating out when following the tutorial click for click. Update issue, maybe?

how do i get to the next Solidworks tutorial?

So I'm in QC, Canada, and I know we often get shafted on deals and discounts but its telling me 110$ canadian. I know the exchange rate isn't great but it's not THAT bad. Am I missing something here?

Thank you for this tutorial!👍

Thank you for this, I have just joined your academy but for a beginner hobbyist do you recommend solidworks or fusion360?

Is there noticeable benefit to using solid works over fusion 360?

Should I go from learning on fusion 360 to solidworks?

Good job well training

So cool to see some solidworks tutorial ! interesting way to make the model , what's good with solidworks or other cad software is that there is multiple way to achieve your goal, personally as the part is symetrical i would have draw a center line first then cad only half side of the part do a symetry then work on the extrusion and voila ;)

Thanks a lot

Metric dimensions ?

This is AWESOME!

Thankyou!

sketch not fully defined

Non absorbed sketches (the point sketch used to locate the holes) in the feature tree is not considered a best practice in Solidworks. This leads to a bad habit of having lots of non-absorbed sketches all over the feature tree, resulting in a mess. The analogy in software dev is "spaghetti code". Non-absorbed sketches result in "spaghetti feature tree". Additionally, the hole wizard feature has it's own "point sketch" (absorbed into the feature on the tree), along with a 2nd sketch that is the hole in profile, revolved - this is built into the hole wizard feature. I recommend placing the holes, THEN editing the absorbed sketch that locates the holes. Second, the chamfer added to the edge created by the V pocket is not machinable at the ends of the edge, because a spinning cutter gets too close to the vertical walls, and the cutter and/or chuck would hit the vertical wall. I'm surprised a CNC shop would put this in a tutorial video. One way to make the geometry machinable is to add "lead outs". In practice the drawing for the part may have an annotation pointing to the edges that cannot be machined, and say "LEAD-OUT OK HERE"

isn't fusion360 better? asking for a friend.

I am the Academy member but im not a student. Do I still qualify for this promotion? Don't wan't to do anything illegal:)

No hole chamfers!?

+1!

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