Starting SolidWorks and Intro into Sketching

Question 1

When you click the new file icon, what are your options as far as templates?

Answer 1

Part, Assembly, Drawing

Question 2

How can you tell what units you are using in the newer version of SolidWorks?

Answer 2

Looking at the button on the status bar in the right hand corner of your screen.

Question 3

What is the graphics area?

Answer 3

The workspace where you graphically interact with your part.

Question 4

What is the feature manager design tree?

Answer 4

The area that displays commands, functions, and features for parts, assemblies, and drawings.

Question 5

What is the command manager?

Answer 5

An organization of the commands of SolidWorks.

Question 6

What is one thing you cannot use the search bar for in SolidWorks?

Answer 6

Equations.

Question 7

Pressing which key accesses the short cut menu for launching commands?

Answer 7

S

Question 8

How do you rotate the model?

Answer 8

Press and hold the middle mouse button and drag the pointer around the screen.

Question 9

How do you pan the model?

Answer 9

Press and hold the Ctrl key and the middle mouse button and drag the model around the screen.

Question 10

How do you zoom in on the model?

Answer 10

Use the middle mouse button and scroll up and down.

Question 11

How do you zoom to fit if you lose the model?

Answer 11

Press F or double click the middle mouse button.

Question 12

How do you change the orientation?

Answer 12

Press the space bar.

Question 13

What can you not do in SolidWorks?

Answer 13

Graph lines

Question 14

Design intent is…

Answer 14

The way your design will behave based on the way you specify.

Question 15

Parts are made up of…

Answer 15

Applied and Sketched features.

Question 16

How can you tell that you are in Edit Sketch mode?

Answer 16

There are transport icons in the top right corner and SolidWorks automatically switches to the Sketch tool bar.

Question 17

When the mouse turns into a pencil on the screen, you are in ___ mode.

Answer 17

Sketch line.

Question 18

How do you end a chain of lines?

Answer 18

Right clicking and selecting end chain or Double clicking with the mouse.

Question 19

If you click on the mouse, hold it down, pull the mouse a distance, and then release, what happens?

Answer 19

A single line is created.

Question 20

How can you delete unwanted line segments?

Answer 20

Select the item and hit delete on the keyboard, Use the arrow to drag a box around all the items you want deleted and hit the delete on the keyboard, or Hold down Ctrl and select multiple items on the screen and then hit delete on the keyboard.

Question 21

If you pull a box from left to right, all items touching the box will be deleted.

Answer 21

False

Question 22

If you get a yellow flag next to your arrow, what does that mean?

Answer 22

Your arrow is on the origin.

Question 23

If a point has a green flag by it, then…

Answer 23

The item is fixed and can not be moved.

Question 24

How do you create a new part?

Answer 24

New > Novice > Part

Question 25

How can you tell whether you are in Editing Part or Editing Sketch mode?

Answer 25

The status bar.

Question 26

Which sketch plane should you always use?

Answer 26

Depends on what you're drawing.

Question 27

How can you get back into Edit Sketch mode?

Answer 27

Click on Front Plane in the Feature Manager Design tree and click Sketch, Going to the Feature Manager Design tree and clicking the sketch and hitting "Edit Sketch.", Clicking the Sketch Button in the Command Manager.

Question 28

If you click to end the line while the yellow flag appears, what happens?

Answer 28

An automatic geometric relation is completed and A green flag appears next to the new geometry.

Question 29

If your sketch turns black, what does that mean?

Answer 29

The sketch is fully defined.

Question 30

What does having an interference point mean?

Answer 30

SolidWorks notifies you that there is potentially another geometric relation, but it does not create the geometric relation.

Question 31

How can you manually add geometric relations?

Answer 31

Select both of the items you want to have a geometric relation and select the relationship you want them to have in the tool bar or properties menu.

Question 32

The options that pop up in the property manager while trying to create geometric relations depend on...

Answer 32

Geometry.

Question 33

If you click on the flag representing the relation, what items are highlighted?

Answer 33

Whatever items are a part of the geometric relation.

Question 34

You can delete relations by...

Answer 34

Selecting the flag that appears next to the relationship and hitting delete on the keyboard, Hitting the Display/Delete Relations icon and deleting the named relation, or Go to Existing Relations and right click and select delete.

Question 35

Driven dimensions are written in...

Answer 35

Gray.

Question 36

Driving dimensions are written in...

Answer 36

Black.

Question 37

If your geometry is yellow then the shape is...

Answer 37

Over defined.

Question 38

What is the Sketch Xpert used to do?

Answer 38

Help you to diagnose your problem when your shape is overrefined.

Question 39

When your shape has red lines, what is the easiest way to fix your geometry?

Answer 39

Use the undo button.

Question 40

How can you figure out the length of a line segment?

Answer 40

Use the Smart Dimension tool.

Question 41

How do you change the length of a line segment?

Answer 41

Using the Smart Dimension tool.

Question 42

How do you know if a shape is fully defined?

Answer 42

The status bar says it is and The lines that make up the shape are black.

Question 43

If a sketch appears light blue, then...

Answer 43

It is being selected.

Question 44

If a sketch appears dark blue then...

Answer 44

It is under defined.

Question 45

If a sketch appears black then...

Answer 45

It is fully defined.

Question 46

How can you turn on numerical sketch input? (Select all that apply.)

Answer 46

Right clicking while in a sketch and selecting Sketch Numerical Input or Options > System Options > Sketch > Enable on screen numerical input on entity creation.

Question 47

What happens when "Create dimensions only when value is entered" is checked?

Answer 47

Dimensions are added to the sketch that you specifically give certain dimensions.

Question 48

What is the basis for assemblies and drawings?

Answer 48

Parts

Question 49

What is used to define the model geometry and behavior?

Answer 49

Parametric Models

Question 50

How do you create parallel lines?

Answer 50

Sketch a line, exit Edit Sketch Mode, highlight the line, select the line tool again, follow the dotted lines that show parallel.

Question 51

How do you add angle dimension?

Answer 51

S key pop up menu, click dimension, select segments close to one another.

Question 52

What does Sketch Input do?

Answer 52

Adds dimension you can regulate to geometry while you create it.

Question 53

What does it mean when something is "driven"?

Answer 53

over defined

Question 54

What is the difference between driven and driving dimensions?

Answer 54

Driving dimensions control the object, while driven does not.

Question 55

If a line is red, what does it mean?

Answer 55

It is impossible/ unsolvable

Question 56

If a line is yellow, what does it mean?

Answer 56

There are conflicts in the line.

Question 57

What is a fillet? How do you add it to a sketch?

Answer 57

A fillet is a rounded edge. It can be added by using the fillet tool, selecting the corner, and entering the radius you want.

Question 58

How do you use the trim tool?

Answer 58

Icon is at the top of the screen. Click it then select Power Trim. Select the segment you want trimmed. Trim can also extend lines.