Part II. Building Intelligence into Your Parts
IN THIS PART
Chapter 6 Getting More from Your Sketches
Chapter 7 Selecting Features
Chapter 8 Patterning and Mirroring
Chapter 9 Using Equations
Chapter 10 Working with Part Configurations
Chapter 11 Editing and Evaluation
The chapters of Part II take you beyond the basic modeling tools to start taking advantage of the parametric options within SolidWorks. Chapter 6 acquaints you with the entire breadth of sketching tools and techniques available in SolidWorks. Chapter 7 assists you in finding the right tool for the right job. Chapter 8 debunks some myths about patterning and mirroring and helps you establish good design practices. The equations in Chapter 9 are, of course, one of the quintessential strengths of parametric modeling tools. Chapter 10 introduces the concept of Configurations, which will help you model variable driven models more quickly and efficiently. Chapter 11 sums it all up with what I consider to be the most important information in the book (editing), and helps you decide if your model is "good enough" through evaluation.
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