New member from Australia

[steve67]

Originally Posted by Jonathan C

Sure Steve, more than happy to help, which version are you running? The only way I came even close to being competent was by being forced to design and draw literally hundreds of parts, everything from moulded foam to turned parts to sheet metal to tube bends. I did a course at RMIT and then just plunged into it. Absolutely incredible resource once you get your head around it. All the sculptures on my link were drawn in Solidworks and the rolled stainless pieces were all drawn 3D, exported to Rhino and turned into surfaces and flattened. Then finally re-imported to Solidworks and turned into dxf files for laser cutting. I'm too stingy to upgrade from 2007, bad enough buying a copy, crippling to upgrade it every year and have to re-learn!

I have SolidWorks 2007. The more I look at it the more I think I will have to go and do a course. I'm only just starting with it. I've had a look at the tutorials both in SolidWorks and on YouTube. But still very early days.

Cheers Steve...

[Jonathan C]

Originally Posted by steve67

I have SolidWorks 2007. The more I look at it the more I think I will have to go and do a course. I'm only just starting with it. I've had a look at the tutorials both in SolidWorks and on YouTube. But still very early days.

Cheers Steve...

Its certainly not easy at first, I tried to do the tutorials but it was the course that really got me going. Trouble is that unless you are going to use it pretty constantly its so easy to forget things. At least we have the same version, happy to give you a hand with it if you get stuck or want to try to get a specific project going. Cheers, Jonathan