From the course: Cert Prep: Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate
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Materials - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: Cert Prep: Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate
Materials
- Selecting the right material for your part is essential to getting the right values for the mass and center of mass for your part. Let's just go quickly and review how to add a matieral and modify it. So go over here to the left. Notice I have Brass selected right now. I can right click on that, I can say Edit Material, or I can choose from any of my favorite materials here. Click on Edit Material first, I get this little dialog window that pops up. I can choose anything from copper to steel to iron, all these different selections here. I can even create my own materials. Most of the time in the exams, you're going to be seeing steel, AISI 1020, or aluminium 1060. Those are the two most common I've seen, but it could be just about anything. Now, I would definitely recommend, because you're going to be using these same materials multiple times, I would go over here to Favorites and add a favorite. So click on Aluminium Alloys, click on the one you want, and then click on Add. It's…
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Sketch Entities8m 1s
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Sketch Tools3m 44s
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Sketch Relations2m 30s
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Boss and Cut features2m 28s
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Revolve3m 3s
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Equations3m 30s
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Sweeps and Lofts3m 21s
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Fillets and Chamfers2m 3s
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Linear and Circular patterns5m 2s
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Dimensions3m 26s
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Mass properties2m 25s
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Materials1m 13s
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Inserting components3m 14s
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Standard Mates6m 58s
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Reference geometry4m 11s
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Drawing view types6m 6s
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