This is really great stuff. I went to school for mechanical engineering and learned a lot of CAD then, but that was 17 years ago now, and I never did end up going to work as an engineer. I recently picked up Solidworks in preparation for building an airplane, and wanted to find some good videos to help me get spun up on the specifics of this program and knock the rust off my general CAD skills. I was not expecting to find an entire college course up for free on RU-vid! These videos and your workbook are amazing resources, and you are a gentleman and a scholar for making them available like this. It beats the pants off the first person's video I found, who ended up just wanting to sell me their $1200 Solidworks course... Well done!!!
I've taken courses all over the internet and school (I have a masters in ME), and I have to tell you Chris is the best instructor out of all of them. I had a douche bag professor who would just scream at us every time we had questions and it really stressed me out. I even had a fear of Solidworks until I took Chris's class. He really makes it fun and interesting.
Thanks for this excellent course. Most of the other Solidworks training on RU-vid and LinkedIn is taught so fast that you spend more time stopping and rolling back than learning anything. For a novice, your teaching pace and details are fantastic.
Just started the course to help me become even more indispensable at work. Already learning a lot. Excited to complete the whole course. Thanks for taking the time and creating this.
I'm really grateful for this incredible course sir! The way you explained through all the details using your real world knowledge and your unparalleled patience makes this course very interesting and so much more easier to follow and understand. Thank you for your time and effort in creating this!
It's feel simple thank you not enough for showing my gratitude for you. Even then, Thank you very much for teaching us. Took me quite some time to watch, take notes and practice those lesson, but this was a enjoyable ride. Thank you very much.
Great video, just what I needed. Quick question, I cannot figure out how to keep a menu open like Sketch. If I click off of it and go to smart dimension I have to click the sketch menu again to use another sketch element. Thank you for sharing!
Hi! I like your tutorials, I think they are great. I started learning using only fully defined sketches, I think it is a good practice but your text isn't fully defined and there is not a single tutorial on how to define a text. So there is a room for improvement.
Thank you for the kind words. There is a point at the bottom left corner of a text sketch to dimension to, or if using a curve to align your text to, you can dimension the curve or line to any edge of the part surface you are adding the text to.
thanks for this great video - one small tip - when you give instructions you can cut to the chase by leaving out the term ..." lets go ahead and ,,,,,,,, or " now we will go ahead and " ...... it adds nothing .....just state : " do this ,,,,,,,,, do that ...... "
Hi Mrgiggles, Thank you for the kind words. Channel Description: Non-professional, rough, unedited, educational CAD/CAE/CAM Videos. "Don't expect much, and you may find something useful."
Hi.. Thank you for offering this video - I am enjoying it. at 1:16 I try to RIP a section on a wheel. My line will not SNAP to the wheel and I do not know why (SW2024) can anyone please help?
question where I can purchase a book to read and a program to practice while I am in my own the tutorial have to small icons and are dificult to read for me
Hi Spencer, in an unofficial poll I took a few years back, approximately 40% of my students who went through both this course CAD 120 Basics and my Advanced CAD 121 who took a CSWP exam (the majority took the Sheet Metal CSWP, and one took the Freeform CSWP - which IMO is very challenging) had passed the first time taking it. I don't keep track of CSWA's nor have I took the CSWA exam, but when I hear my students discussing it, the majority seem to have passed it after CAD 121. Theoretically, from what I've read about the CSWA I would think one could pass it after taking this CAD 120 course, but I have no data to support that. A lot depends on how much effort the student put into the course, i.e. if they do all the labs without watching the videos they seem to be stronger SolidWorks designers than those who skip or watch the lab videos while modeling them. I hope this helps.
Thank you for the kind words. Note: For those of you who feel the pace is too slow, know that this course was originally designed for actual classroom based college credit. Feel free to speed-up the playback setting, or use the playlist, or use my 10 minute Fast-Learn edition of E1 - • SolidWorks in 10 Minutes | SolidWorks...
Awesome tutorials. Started watching, got 2 hours into it then audio started being out of sync. Unfortunately it's too distracting to continue, thank you anyway.
Hi Sollys, Thank you for the kind words, and letting me know about the sound issue. I'll try and get that fixed. In the meantime, you can just type in and search for the Exercise you want on an individual basis. Example, for Exercise 3 type in E3 SolidWorks. Or just go to the video library link is here: ru-vid.com/group/PLROUP1bV8REQmZgDTTJ0JCanXS8uySo-4
@@vertanux1 I will try that right now, thank you. I'd love to be able to continue watching your videos. Just finding it too distracting with the audio issue right now.
@@trexinvert Appreciate the reply. I also learned that if you mirror a feature on a line, but then delete that line it will no longer mirror features that are added after that.
Cen several surfaces be aligned all at once, before the part moves into position? Like if I want to mate two parts together at three positions, can I mate all three positions while the parts are separate from each other and then have them all move into position only after I mate all three positions (six surfaces)? That way, a hard to align/mate part can be aligned without mating surfaces becoming hidden after mating just the initial surfaces.
Always hate when the program shows exactly what you want it to do... but then when you tell it to do it, you get an error message. I think the worst though is when you get a single error that you have to work with for a moment and each and every single action you do has to remind you of the error, as if you're not aware from the first 15 times it reminded you.
I hear you. Very frustrating for many "self-learners" especially when you are in a rush. However, it's worth it to take a formal SW training(2-3 days) or stop and just commit yourself to a formalized learning system. I learned to create a very complicated surface model, but if I did anything different such as change a dim that was too large or too small then whole things collapsed. It is a house of cards if you don't know all the ins and outs.
a big mistake all engineers make .. radius and chamfer must be made on the 2d sketch not pasted on after extrusion. and by the way don't add rounds and chamfers because it looks better on your screen .. all cnc cad-cam people hate it
You talk way too fast about stuff that is irrelevant to the task at hand making the time it takes way longer. Slow down on the stuff that matters and throw out the shit that doesn't. I don't care about exercise 4 when I am on exercise 1. etc etc Then again my brain works faster so this slow pace is brain numbing. The length of the content makes it difficult to scroll back after you rapidly glaze over the important details and move on to your next unrelated rant. Thanks for the free knowledge but if you could shorten this sucker up it would add way more value.
Here is the 10 minute filtered version for ADD students. Thank you for the kind words. You'll notice it get's virtually no viewers in comparison to this 9.5 hour complete college course. I suspect most people wouldn't want/hire a brain surgeon or a mechanical designer, knowing they learned their craft using 10 minute videos. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VpcXZE2mCb8.html
