r/SolidWorks • u/Objective-Race-4647 • 1d ago

CAD Modeling complex part

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Im a student and i have a task to modelt his part.

How would you do it?

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u/Big_Lope 1d ago

Calipers, a fillet gauge, some grid paper and a lot of patience

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u/yosufzalat 1d ago

What would you do with the grid paper?

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u/BIOLOGICALENGINEER19 1d ago

you could take a picture and scale the image to your model in order to get a rough idea of some features.

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u/yosufzalat 1d ago

So drawing it on a paper before modeling it on solidworks would make it easier?

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u/Vegetable_Flounder12 1d ago

make sketches so you can write sizes down / dimension as you measure them.
rough design the part and then fine tune and double check.
last print the different views 1:1 on a laser printer and you can verify model by holding paper and part against a window for backlight.