SolidWorks CSWA basics Vocabulary 2

What Sketch Tools/Features allows you to copy an existing entity into a pattern?

• Linear

• Circular

• Perpendicular

• Isometric

Answer explanation

The Circular and Linear Sketch patterns is how you can take one entity or feature and make an infinite amount more in a vertical line, horizontal line, and in a circle

What Feature can you use if there is no Plane or Planar face that can be used?

Answer explanation

Reference Geometry allows you to make a custom plane in SolidWorks using an already created entity, that being a sketch, plane, or feature.

What are the requirements for your first sketch to be Fully Defined for making a feature?

• Shaded sketch/ Fully closed

• Some relation to the Origin

• All black lines

• A mixture of Blue and Black lines

Answer explanation

No matter the shape, simplicity, or complexity of your beginning sketch, if the part is not shaded, not all black, and has no relation to the origin, It will not be completed. Always make sure your sketch is Fully defined before making it a feature or you will have issues later on.

What sketch tool can you use to copy and paste another Features Geometry into your current sketch?

• Reference Geometry

• Trim

• Convert Entities

• Extend

Answer explanation

Convert Entities is basically a cheat in order for you to be able to use another Features outlines without having to draw it again.

What makes the trim tool different from deleting?

• There is no difference

• It can get rid a specific area

• It can add entities

Answer explanation

Trim Entities like the word suggest, will shave or delete a specific area of an entity. When using it, it will have a trail that follows behind it, where ever that trail touches it will be deleted. Warning though, in order for trim to work, there has to be two or more entities that touch or intersect with each other.

What tool will copy the selected entities and move them a set amount?

Answer explanation

Offset, unlike it pattern or mirror relatives, will make a replica of the selected entities and either extend them outwards or inwards from the original.

What is the conversion from Radius to Diameter and visa-versa?

• Radius is half the Diameter

• There is no need for conversion, they are the same size

• Diameter is two times the Radius

• What even is a Radius and Diameter?

Answer explanation

There is a difference between the Radius and Diameter. When looking at a circle, the Radius is from the center to the side and the Diameter is from side to side.

What tool/ feature will smoothen or round the edges of a sketch or feature.

• Fillet

• Chamfer

• Mirror

• Linear sketch pattern

Answer explanation

A Fillet will turn your part from rough and blocky, to a smooth and flowing one that will give a part a more realistic look. In the real word most edges are rounded on objects, like the table you are currently using.

What relation is used to seamlessly connect entities with a circular entities?

• Coincident

• Parallel

• Horizontal

• Tangent

Answer explanation

Tangent is one of the Relations you will be using a lot in SolidWorks. it will be used in situations where a line is touching a circle and it has to look as though it is an extension of it.

Where do you find the mass of your part?

Answer explanation

Mass Properties is where you will find the answer to some of the questions you will be given in the CSWA test. Make sure you know where to find it and what the Center of Mass and Mass numbers mean.