SOLIDWORKS Composer Course

SOLIDWORKS Composer course teaches you how to use to create 2D and 3D output from existing CAD data.

Overview

Prerequisite

Experience with the Windows Operating System

Length

3 Days

Syllabus

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

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