Solid Modeling with Native AutoCAD Topics
What is solid modeling
Why use solid modeling
Brief 3D review
User coordinate systems
Paper space & Model space
Viewports
Solid primitives
Solbox - box
Solwedge - wedge
Solcyl - cylinder
Solcone - cone
Solsphere - sphere
Soltorus - torus
Solext - extrude
Solrev - revolve
Solcham - chamfer
Solfill - fillet
Solidify - thick entity to solid
Sollist - list solid information
Solmesh - display as meshed solid
Solwire - display as wire frame
Solwdens - set mesh density
Boolean operations
Solunion - union
Solsub - subtraction
Solint - intersection
Solsep - separation
Solpurge - purge
Modeling strategies
Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG)
Boundary Representation (Brep)
Basic primitives
Swept primitives
Edge primitives
Moving and changing solids
MCS icon
Motion description codes
Solmove - move or rotate a solid
Solchp - change and view primitives
Solvar - solids system variables
Solarea - calculate area
Solmassp - calculate mass properties
Mass
Volume
Bounding box
Centroid
Moments of inertia
Products of inertia
Radii of gyration
Principal moments
Solmat - material properties
Density
Modulus of elasticity
Poisson's ratio
Yield strength
Ultimate tensile strength
Coefficient of thermal conductivity
Coefficient of thermal expansion
Coefficient of thermal convection
Specific heat
Using the 3D solid model with 2D detail drawings
Extracting 2D views
Using the 2D solid region modeler
3D view through wall holes
Automatic calculation of net wall area
Downstream applications of solid modeling
Finite element analysis (FEA)
Computer aided manufacturing (CAM)
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