Modeling a Cabinet with SOLIDWORKS

Improve your top-down or in-context assembly design skills using a "skeleton modeling" strategy and SOLIDWORKS.

Improve your top-down or in-context assembly design skills using a "skeleton modeling" strategy and SOLIDWORKS. In this course, Leon van den Heever shows how to create a model of a cabinet that automatically resizes its components based on the outer skeletal structure. This start-to-finish project will help you practice your assembly design skills and master the impressive modeling tools in SOLIDWORKS.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files
• Before we begin

1. Establishing Our Workflow

• Skeleton modeling strategy
• Initial setup and adding components
• Creating reference planes for the bottom of the cabinet
• Blocking out the bottom
• Making the bottom profile sweep cuts
• Making the bottom front profile cut

2. The Main Structure

• Sides
• Front frame
• Front frame decor
• Braces and supports
• Shelf
• Top
• Shelf adjustment holes

3. Door and Drawer

• Modeling the door
• Drawer frame: Front and back
• Drawer frame: Sides
• Drawer front
• Drawer bottom

4. Finalizing and Testing

• Back cover
• A few fixes and testing