SOLIDWORKS Composer Course
SOLIDWORKS Composer course teaches you how to use to create 2D and 3D output from existing CAD data.
Prerequisites: Experience with the Windows operating system.
Length: 3 days
Lesson 1: Quick Start
- Quick Look at SOLIDWORKS Composer
Lesson 2: Getting Started
- What is the SOLIDWORKS Composer Application?
- Notes on SOLIDWORKS Composer
- SOLIDWORKS Composer Terminology
- SOLIDWORKS Composer User Interface
- Views
- Navigation Tools
- Updating Views
- Collaborative Actors
- Camera Views
- Transform
- Creating 2D Output
- View Mode/Animation Mode
- Exercise 1: Navigation Tools
Lesson 3: Creating Cover and Detail Images
- Rendering Tools
- Camera Alignment Tools
- Custom Rendering
- Digger
- Exercise 2: Digger
- Exercise 3: Updating Views
Lesson 4: Creating an Exploded View
- Visibility Tools
- Exploded Views
- Collaborative Actors
- Styles
- Vector Graphics Output
- Exercise 4: Exploded View
- Exercise 5: Styles
- Exercise 6: Markups and Annotations
- Exercise 7: Visibility and Rendering Tools
Lesson 5: Creating Additional Exploded Views
- Importing Files
- Paper Space
- Update Views with Selected Actors
- Align Actors
- Explode Lines
- Custom Views
- Linking Between Views
- Exercise 8: Importing Assemblies
- Exercise 9: Custom Views
Lesson 6: Creating Bills of Materials
- Bill of Materials
- Vector Graphics Output
- Another BOM Table
- Assembly Level BOM
- Assembly Selection Mode
- Exercise 10: Exploded Views, BOMs, and Callouts
- Exercise 11: Assembly Level BOMs
- Exercise 12: Vector Graphics Files
Lesson 7: Creating a Marketing Image
- Selections
- Textures
- Lighting
- Scenes
- High-Resolution Image
- Exercise 13: Lights and Textures
- Exercise 14: Render Effect
- Exercise 15: Merging and Aligning Actors
Lesson 8: Creating an Animation
- Timeline Pane
- Location Keys
- Exercise 16: Creating an Explode Animation
Lesson 9: Creating Interactive Content
- Views for Animation
- Improving the Animation
- Digger Keys
- Selections in the Key Track
- Events
- Animating Collaborative Actors
- Exercise 17: Managing the Timeline Pane
- Exercise 18: Animating Collapse Sequences
- Exercise 19: Events
Lesson 10: Creating a Walkthrough Animation
- Camera Keys
- Grids
- Additional Camera Functionality
- Exercise 20: Camera Keys 1
- Exercise 21: Camera Keys 2
Lesson 11: Adding Special Effects to Animations
- Animation Library Workshop
- Animation Special Effects
- Assembly Selection Mode in Animations
- Scenarios
- Exercise 22: Animating Actors and the Digger
- Exercise 23: Animation Library Workshop
Lesson 12: Updating SOLIDWORKS Composer Files
- Update an Entire Assembly
- Changing the Geometry of an Actor
- Exercise 24: Updating from CAD
Lesson 13: Working with Projects
- Product Files
- Product Orientation
- Exercise 25: Projects
Lesson 14: Publishing from SOLIDWORKS Composer
- Preparing a File for Publishing
- Publishing to PDF
- Publishing Inside Microsoft PowerPoint
- Publishing to HTML
- Linked SVG Files
- Publishing Multiple Views
- Exercise 26: Publishing to PDF
- Exercise 27: Publishing Inside Microsoft Word
- Exercise 28: Publishing Inside HTML
- Exercise 29: Publishing SVG Documents
