Draw a circle having 7.5mm radius and create a swept surface with this circle as profile and the sketch previously drawn as a path. Exit from the sketch and create a reference plane which passes from the bottom end point and is normal to the arc drawn. Now create a sketch on front plane approximately as shown. Create a revolved surface of 360⁰ with the vertical centerline as axis which gives you this result. Finish the sketch and try to make it fully defined. The curve shown top is a spline having two points and curvature radii as shown (at top is 24 mm and at bottom is 72mm). Here sketch relations are hidden for a better view. Each and every sketch entity is tangent with the adjacent ones. There are some obvious steps to be followed: Start a new part document, bring the Surface tab in the command manager, if not visible (we’ll be using SolidWorks 2011), or you can use the standard toolbar interface if preferable and then start sketching on the front plane.Ĭreate a sketch with the dimensions as shown. (Methodology followed in this tutorial is just a how-to approach, and not ‘the’ way to create the model.) Nothing says more than a photo! So here it is :ĭon’t be scared! It’s easy with SolidWorks. Let me just give you a preview of what we’re gonna end up with.
#Solid modeling using solidworks 2012 how to
In this post I’ll show you how to create a plastic bottle. Thanks to the powerful surfacing capabilities of SolidWorks, it’s a little easier to create complex and innovative surfaces, say surfaces of consumer products.