From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Modeling a Bicycle

What you should know and how to use the exercise files - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Modeling a Bicycle

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What you should know and how to use the exercise files

- [Instructor] This short video explains a little bit about what you need to consider when taking this course. The course does assume that you have a working knowledge of SOLIDWORKS and a copy of SOLIDWORKS on your computer. The course will show all of the modeling steps on screen. So if you're quite new to SOLIDWORKS, then you should still be able to follow along by copying the videos and pausing and skipping if you need to. If you get stuck at any point or if you have any questions about why we do things a certain way, then please do drop me a message. You can write it in the Q&As below the video or you can send me a message directly on LinkedIn or Twitter. The course is taught using SOLIDWORKS 2021. So if you're using a different version then you can still take the course but you might just notice some very minor differences in things like the interface, how the icons look and the exact wording of some tools. Throughout this course, a number of exercise files will be provided. These are mainly SOLIDWORKS part files and assembly files. These files aren't actually needed to complete the course. They're just provided as an example of the parts that you're making yourself, just in case you get stuck and you want to see how I did it. The SOLIDWORKS files are saved within zip files for each chapter. If a chapter has exercise files, then this will be indicated on the screen during the appropriate video. A starting set of files will be provided for the whole chapter. And then the end state for that chapter is actually the starting state of the next chapter. So for example, the end state of chapter three is the starting state of chapter four. And this will be explained within the chapter as well. To use the SOLIDWORKS exercise files, first download the zip files, and then for each chapter, create a separate folder on your computer. For example, chapter three. Then place the zip file for that chapter into that folder, open the folder and unzip those files. Then you just need to open the appropriate file which is usually the assembly file. The assemblies in these files are linked to these specific file names. So just to reiterate, make sure that all of the provided files for a chapter are in the same folder. If you change the location of any of these parts or the file name, then you might lose a link from the assembly to the part. If you do, you should be able to relink the files just by going to the assembly, clicking on the part name in the parts tree on the left and then trying to open that file. Parts within assemblies can sometimes get a little bit confusing in SOLIDWORKS. So if you do get stuck, then please feel free to ask me for help online, and I'll try to get back to you as soon as possible.

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