From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Designing a Stirling Engine

Working with the files in this course - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Designing a Stirling Engine

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Working with the files in this course

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- [Instructor] Throughout this course, a number of exercise files will be provided. These will be SOLIDWORKS PART files, SOLIDWORKS assembly files, and step files which are similar to SOLIDWORKS PART files. Except for these step files, which are mentioned in their own chapter later, the rest of these files aren't actually needed to complete the course. They're just provided as an example of the parts that you are making yourself just in case you get stuck and you want to see how I did it. The files themselves are saved within zip files for each chapter. So all you have to do is download the zip file and then unzip it. And then you should be able to open these files. For the PART files, you can open these and use them individually in SOLIDWORKS. For the assembly files, such as chapter seven. If you want to use these assemblies, then they're linked to the specific file names and locations of the PART files that are provided. So to use these assemblies, first you'll have to download and unzip. All of the part files that are in that assembly. And make sure everything is in the same folder. If you change the name or location of any of the PART files, then you might lose the link between the PART files and the assembly files. And when you open them in SOLIDWORKS, you might get an error. Something like this. SOLIDWORKS might say, it can't find a certain part. In this case, you can just press Browse and find that part. If you find it, you open your assembly and you're still missing apart like this, we should have the base part here. We can see here on the left, that it is parts tray. It's just not showing up. So you can just click on it and press Unsuppress, and then you should be able to browse again and find the correct file on your computer. And that should really link to the assembly then. Parts within assemblies in SOLIDWORKS can sometimes get a little bit confusing. So if you do get stuck with this, then please feel free to ask me for help online and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.

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