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About the writer
My name is Jan-Willem Zuyderduyn and I have been creating designs as long as I remember. I studied Product Design & Engineering in the Netherlands. I won the 3rd price in the SolidWorks Design Contest to design the ultimate sports car twice. (SolidWorks Design Contest Benelux in 2007 and SolidWorks 3D Challenge Europe in 2008). Currently, I work as an automotive designer in Eindhoven, the Design city of the Netherlands. I have been asked many times how to model and render 3D models using SolidWorks. So, since I also enjoy designing websites I thought, why not create a website that shows my SolidWorks modeling and render process and bundle it into a complete SolidWorks tutorial package? I wish you all the luck and hope you'll learn a lot of my tutorials!
Best regards,
Jan-Willem Zuyderduyn Designer and owner of SolidWorks Model.com
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Before we start Congratulations! You just made the first step to become a successful (SolidWorks) designer! SolidWorks is the global standard in 3D mechanical design software. SolidWorks is a tool that can help you to visualize your ideas in 3D. It helps organizations reduce time-to-market, design better quality product faster, maintain a competitive advantage, and increase sales. SolidWorks delivers powerful 3D design capabilities, unmatched ease-of-use, and an affordable cost. Lots of people, in fact, over 1,000,000 use SolidWorks. You’ll find SolidWorks products in use at Fortune 500 companies, single proprietorships, and everywhere in between. As a designer you have a great added value for companies if you are good in modeling and rendering using SolidWorks and PhotoWorks. SolidWorksModel helps you to discover the most important features of SolidWorks in a creative and innovative way. All the exercises form together a complete chopper. This practical way of working makes it challenging for the participant and is one of the great strengths of SolidWorksModel.
If you don’t have a lot experience with SolidWorks, that’s no problem at all. Only basic knowledge of SolidWorks is required. SolidWorksModel starts with the basics and moves on from there to an advanced level. The tutorials of SolidWorksModel are divided into three different levels (marked with one, two or three stars). This allows every single user to decide for themselves which particular tutorial he or she participate. The SolidWorks Tutorials are also a good already have some SolidWorks users will also find many good intermediate and progressive way.
refresher for people who knowledge and experienced tips and tricks. Move to advanced levels in a gradual
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Design process SolidWorksModel treated only the 3D modeling process of a chopper. But when you
create a design it’s important to make some hand sketches first. You could use these hand sketches as under-layer in SolidWorks or just use them to strengthen your own visual imagination about a design. There are a number of well known and not so well known steps and techniques that a designer can employ to make them a better sketcher. One important tip when sketching is to let go of your controlling conscious mind. Sketches are generally used as a way to generate ideas and record images for later use. Although some sketches have been sold for a lot of money, this is normally when an designer is so well known that even their rough ideas command a great price. A sketch can be done in almost any media, however it normally refers to a dry media such as a pencil. There are many things you can do as a designer to help you to create the best sketches possible.
It is always a good idea to find yourself a good comfortable position in a nice quiet location, somewhere you can let yourself go. Make sure that your tools are at your disposal, whatever they may be. It is important to think about shapes and relationships between shapes as your initial markings could maybe end up as a masterpiece design. Take light strokes and be gentle at first with the image in your head. You are allowed to use an eraser while sketching, some people seem to think that sketching doesn’t involve correction, but most artists continually self correct their mistakes. Having a good and sharp pencil or equivalent can also make your life so much easier as you may not make as many mistakes. | Page
The number one most important thing you can do to make yourself a better sketcher
is to get out of your own way, that’s right, the simple act of thinking less can lead to much greater results. Art is a right brain activity and by letting go of your reasoning and controlling functions you can develop better spatial relationships and a better sense of shape and scale. In order to reach this place you need to be in a relaxed situation and in a relaxed place, with everything you need right at your fingertips. Then let go, take it slowly at first, and start you first steps to becoming the best sketcher and designer you can be.
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If you want to improve your hand drawing sketch skills, SolidWorksModel recommend
sketch book ”Design Sketching” to you. Design Sketching is an innovative new sketch technique book that has become a highly regarded resource for designers, students and Universities throughout the world. Rather than taking the traditional theoretical approach, it aims to teach and inspire by displaying a broad collection of sketches encompassing the entire design process.
Twenty-four talented students from the Umeå Institute of Design, one of Europe’s best design schools, have contributed to the diverse material in the book. Work has been selected from the different areas of the Institute, resulting in a unique collection of sketches representing a large number of different product designs. Design Sketching could help you to develop your sketching skills and serve as an invaluable tool for inspiration.
You could order Design Sketching on www.designsketching.com
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The tutorials of SolidWorksModel.com The SolidWorksModel package consists of 15 tutorials. Every tutorial is focused on one part of the chopper. The jargon-free tutorials improve clarity, save you time and are made for quick learning. You won't get overwhelmed in a mass of instructions all at once, because the commands are small and specific. Information is in small manageable sections. The front page of each tutorial tells you which features you will learn. A lot of illustrations help clarity, making the explanations even clearer and easier to follow. This list contains all the features and options you will use and learn.
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Release your creativity You'll be able to give full scope to your imagination and creativity very quickly. Creativity will increase as you gain more command over new techniques. Undertake retouching tasks you never thought possible and produce design and renders like the ones you have admired in publications. It will be fun and you will feel a terrific sense of achievement. Create 3D models and awesome renders you could never do before. All this without having to spend hours, days, or weeks and a lot of money with expensive SolidWorks courses and trainings. You could also develop 3D designs for sale to make extra money as industrial designer. Perfect reference guide Although learning the basics of SolidWorks is fairly simple, a full understanding of SolidWorks is more of a long-term matter. Some features are quite complicated and are not used very often. A task can be learnt and understood. If a similar task is not done for a while, then the procedure can be forgotten. With the E-books on the computer, you have instant access to the contents and the tutorials can be used as quick-reference guides. What am I capable of after I have finished with the SolidWorksModel Package? Afterwards you are able to model, assemble and render the chopper of SolidWorksModel all by yourself! But even more important, you are able to model your own personal designs with all your SolidWorks knowledge!
You’re now ready to start with Tutorial 1, the Transmission Belt. When you encounter problems during the course, we recommend you to use the SolidWorks files of SolidWorksModel as an example and reference file. | Page
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