Michael Lord

I have been presenting this Slightly Advanced SOLIDWORKS Modelling .. Utilising Surface Tools for Solid Models for many years now. It was due for an update and after deciding that I should bring it back for 3DEXPERIENCE WORLD 2025 it was a good excuse to do so. This is the recording of the updated version of the presentation from World.

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Then I was set loose, to work in the software, unsupervised, all on my own! I didn’t work. or know, another SOLIDWORKS User at the time, and hadn’t at that stage discovered the thriving SOLIDWORKS Community.

Occasionally I’ll still stumble across some models from those early days and wonder …… what I was thinking! But I got by and at the time it was all I knew. After a few years working with SOLIDWORKS, you know there must be better ways, to do some of things, that you do. Between the new features released with each new version of SOLIDWORKS and some things that you discover as you get deeper into the software. You start to evolve how you model! You may even go looking to learn more, get some advance training, join a SOLIDWORKS User Group, or discover a blog like this 🙂

I’m sure that, this is a familiar story. You’re reading this because you want to get better at your job, or gain more knowledge, or simply enjoy the experience of finding a better way to do things!

Which is how I discovered and learnt that SOLIDWORKS Surfacing features are more than just tools for doing Surface modelling! They are, just additional tools that you should understand how and when to use with your solid modelling.

This is the presentation that I was doing for 3DEXPERIENCE WORLD 2022. As it became a full virtual event, I ended up recording it.

In it I show a few of the Surface tools that I use with the work that I do. It demonstrates some of the Surface features that I use with solid modelling.

It’s around 40minutes in length and in it, I show some practical use of the tools, where I talk my way through the process. There is even an additional tip or two, as well!

Hopefully you’ll enjoy the presentation, more so, that you will mange to learnt some things from it as well!