ME 3320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 56: Solidworks, Elastic Modulus, Mass

• School: Baylor University
• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Course: ME 3320
• Professor: Terrell

Document Summary

Solidworks is a history-based modeler meaning problem at the beginning of the tree can sequentially effect things downstream. Therefore take a top-down approach to fix problems. X items unable to rebuild geometry and won"t show up in graphics screen. Warning icon contains a problem, but the geometry will still be shown in the graphics area. Hovering over them or right-clicking what"s wrong will help you discover the issue. (-) means under defined, (+) means over defined. First step is to figure out if the trouble is over the sketch. When editing a sketch that is overdefined for example, go up to or the feature. In cases where all the sketch lines are black and although due to the (-) sign you know it is under-defined but it isn"t obvious, go to tools >> sketch tools >> check sketch for. Feature and choose what type of feature i am attempting to use the sketch for.