Package Structure and Mechanism Design with SolidWorks 2012

• Created for anyone designing package structures, product designs and mechanical designs
• Guides you through the process of creating numerous real world package and product designs
• Starts at a basic level and increases in difficulty with each subsequent chapter

The intention of this book is to provide you with a guide for designing package structure and packaging mechanism with SolidWorks 2012. The intended audience is the student, engineer and persons involved in designing packaging structure, product design and mechanical design.

The design examples in the chapters are simplified versions of real world designs. The chapter sequences are arranged from basic skills to more advanced skills. It is assumed that the reader has some familiarity with SolidWorks.

Topics Covered

• Sketching and solid modeling
• The Helix tool and Reference Plane
• Trim and mirror entities
• Assembling many part drawings into a more complicated assemble drawing
• 3-point Arcs and copying sketches from one plane to another plane
• Sheet metal functions and die cut drawing
• Cavity and split approaches for designing a mold
• Calculating fill volumes and using PhotoView 360
• Creating a bill of materials for assembly instructions and documentation
• Sketching complicated components
• Creating 2D detail drawings from part drawings
• Advanced mate, subassembly, adding screws and nuts based on the Design Library
• Creating the exploded views