SOLIDWORKS Model Boat Tutorials
Welcome to the cudacountry's SOLIDWORKS 2016 and Mastercam 2017 Model Boat Tutorials. We use SOLIDWORKS 2016 to design our model boats and Mastercam 2017 to create CNC toolpaths to cut the wood hull. The wood hull is used as mold in vacuum forming machine to create plastic hull.
New in 2018:
New in 2018 is Flow Simulation Free Surface (chapter 28).
New in 2016:
AA Battery Holder assembly.
Improved Propeller!
Electrical routing.
Mastercam 2017 toolpaths.
The following tutorials with the PDF icon are available for viewing. Download the free reader from Adobe.
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1. Hull. Create plane, two sketches and loft. |
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2. Hull with Midplane. This tutorial uses hull from Chapter 1 and adds a mid plane. Then, add section to loft and scale down sketch in rear of hull. |
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3. Base. |
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4. Motor. Same motor used in all our projects. |
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5. Motor Mount. Sheet metal that flattens |
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6. Switch. Switch has cool jog to get up over screw and terminal. |
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7. Wedge. |
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8. Battery AA. |
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9. Battery Holder AA. |
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10. Spring. |
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11. Rivet. |
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12. Battery Holder AA Assembly with Battery. |
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13. Power Train Sub-Assembly. The Sub-Assembly can be dropped into any hull. |
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14. Terminal from Design Library. |
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15. Ring Terminal from Design Library. |
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16. Cable/Wire. |
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17. Harness 1 Motor to Battery Holder Red positive. |
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18. Harness 2 Battery Holder to Switch Black negative. |
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19. Harness 3 Motor to Switch Blue. |
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20. Screws from Toolbox. |
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21. Assembly. |
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22. Drawing. Includes flattened sheet metal. 11” by 17” sheet. |
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23. Coupling. 1/8 Rubber tube. Connects the motor shaft to the propeller shaft. |
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24. Propeller Shaft. 1/8 dowel rod sharpened in pencil sharper to point. |
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25. Propeller. Purchase props at Kelvin.com. |
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26. Bushing. 1/4 copper tubing that fits in hole in hull and guides the propeller shaft. |
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27. Hull Decals. Click here to try our decals files. Included in the the zip file are decal images with text and with out text. |
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28. New in 2018 is Flow Simulation Free Surface which allows you to model the flow of two immiscible fluids with a free surface. Here we create Cut Plot and Surface Plot Transient Explorer animations. Also, Flow Trajectories and the new Isosurface animations. |
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28. 2016 Analyze Hull in flow tank! Analyze design using Flow Simulation and create animation of flow trajectories. |
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29. Cat Hull. First, complete Chapters 1 and 2 to set up planes and sketches. Use Chapters 31 and 33 for toolpaths, OptiRough and Finish Blend. This project is set up to drop the Power Train (Chapter 13) into any hull design. |
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30. Hydro Hull. First, complete Chapters 1 and 2 to set up planes and sketch. Use Chapters 31 and 33 for toolpaths, OptiRough and Finish Blend. |
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31. SW to MCX2017. Move hull file from SOLIDWORKS 2016 to Mastercam 2017. This tutorial rotates solid into the correct Mastercam XY planes and creates a wireframe centered around the solid. |
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32. Toolpaths for Mid Plane hull. Toolpaths to cut hull from 2 by 4 block of wood. Use as mold in vacuum forming machine to make plastic boat. The wood 2 by 4 stock is cut to 1.5 by 3.2 by 9.3. Create a HST OptiRough and Finish Waterline toolpaths. |
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33. Toolpaths for Cat and Hydro hulls. Create a Rough OptiRough and Finish Blend toolpaths. Blend is great toolpath! |
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New in 2018 Free Surface models the flow of two immiscible fluids. |
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All new propeller. |
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Power Train with new electrical routing. |
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Power Train sub assembly can be dropped into any of your hulls. |
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