Ever get wrinkles or bulges/dips in your surfaces, or strange edge anomalies when trying to make a Loft/Boundary? In our product design studio, controlling isoparms is key to creating the smooth, production-ready surfaces our clients’ … [Read more...]
SOLIDWORKS Tutorials From Our Industrial Design Studio
These tutorials come straight from our industrial design studio, where DiMonte Group designers have presented advanced SOLIDWORKS techniques at SOLIDWORKS World for years. Download presentations and example files covering surfacing, filleting, plastic part design, and more.
Zen & the Art of SOLIDWORKS Surfacing: An Industrial Design Consulting Tutorial
Surfacing Techniques From Our Industrial Design Consulting Team Do rough surfaces have you on edge? Got a kink in your spline? Zen out and come to really understand how SOLIDWORKS surfacing works. Using unique advanced techniques from our … [Read more...]
Fantastic Plastic: Injection Molded Part Design at SOLIDWORKS WORLD
SolidWorks has a plethora of tools for designing and modeling injection molded plastic parts. As a product design engineering firm, DiMonte Group uses these tools every day to turn concepts into manufacturable plastic parts. This … [Read more...]
SolidWorks World 2017 – Using 3D Scan Data Effectively
You have 3D scan data. Now what? This session first explores the workflows and decisions required to effectively reference a 3D scan in SOLIDWORKS. Then the second part uses the “Tucker Torpedo” case study to explore the root principles and … [Read more...]
Autodesk University 2016 – A Case Study In Adopting Fusion 360
We’ve owned Fusion 360 software for a year. Projects that come into our company are commercial gigs, so we haven’t been able to justify the learning time involved with using software new to us against a real-world design job’s timeline. So, … [Read more...]
SolidWorks World 2016 – How Not to be Wrong
This is not a session on how not to make mistakes. Mistakes happen. Not catching mistakes is what is wrong, and not catching and correcting them in a timely fashion can start costing money, or worse, cost people their … [Read more...]
SolidWorks World 2016 – Have a Seat
In 1999, TIME magazine hailed the Eames LCW Chair the greatest design of 20th Century. Using this chair and others, I’ll explain SOLIDWORKS modeling techniques that can be used to recreate the most iconic Mid Century Modern furniture … [Read more...]
Surfaces and Splines in SOLIDWORKS: Product Design Consultancy Techniques
Production Modeling Techniques From Our Product Design Consultancy Production modeling of consumer products can be intimidating without the right combination of skills and modeling strategies. This session discusses techniques our product … [Read more...]
SolidWorks World 2015 – Filleting Master Class
Have you ever applied a fillet at .23” instead of the required 0.25” just to have it complete? Wondered about the different types of fillets and all their options? Needed to smoothly blend multiple fillets into each other? After this … [Read more...]
SolidWorks World 2014 – Make it Shell
When the Shell command works, it is amazing. And when it doesn't work, that is when you need this session! We will cover why shells fail, how to diagnose the source of the problem, and some simple (and sometimes devious) tricks to always … [Read more...]
