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SolidWorks Mechanical Design Professional
A practical 30–40 hour SolidWorks programme for mechanical engineers, product designers, and manufacturing engineers — building professional parametric modeling, assembly, and drawing capability from CAD foundations through a complete capstone product model.
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Programme Highlights
Complete Parametric Design Workflow
A single integrated programme covering part modeling, assemblies, drawings, and outputs — the full SolidWorks design lifecycle rather than isolated tool features.
Design-Intent Driven Modeling
Design intent and feature planning are taught from the first module, so models remain robust and easily editable through the design changes standard on real product-development projects.
Manufacturing-Ready Outputs
Drawing standards, BOMs, and export packages built to the deliverable expectations of GCC manufacturing and product-development teams — not generic CAD exercises.
Capstone Product Model
A hands-on capstone exercise that builds a complete mechanical assembly with drawings, bill of materials, and a manufacturing-ready export package.
Course Curriculum — 8 Modules
CAD Modeling Foundations
This module establishes the conceptual and technical foundation that every subsequent SolidWorks workflow builds upon: parametric modeling logic. Participants learn how SolidWorks represents geometry as a history of features driven by dimensions, relations, and equations rather than static shapes — the fundamental difference between parametric CAD and simple 3D drawing that determines how easily a model can be modified later in a project's life. Design intent is introduced as a planning discipline rather than an afterthought: anticipating which dimensions and features will change during a product's design evolution, and structuring sketches and features accordingly so that downstream edits propagate predictably rather than breaking the model. Sketching fundamentals cover sketch planes, sketch entities, and the geometric and dimensional constraint system that fully defines sketch geometry — the foundation-level skill that determines model stability throughout every later module. Feature planning closes the module: sequencing feature creation logically, understanding parent-child relationships between features, and building the habit of planning a feature tree before modeling begins — a discipline that directly reduces rework on the multi-revision product development projects common across GCC manufacturing and equipment-design environments.
Part Modeling
This module builds core part-modeling competency through the feature types that form the backbone of most mechanical component design. Extrude and revolve features are covered as the two primary solid-creation methods, including end-condition options, thin-feature variants, and the selection logic that determines which method suits a given part geometry. Pattern features address linear, circular, and sketch-driven patterns, and the parametric relationships that keep patterned features updating correctly as underlying dimensions change. Fillet and chamfer features cover edge-treatment selection for both functional requirements (stress relief, safety) and manufacturability (casting draft, machining access) common on components designed for GCC manufacturing and fabrication facilities. Reference geometry — planes, axes, and coordinate systems — is introduced as the supporting infrastructure that enables complex feature placement beyond what default geometry allows. The module closes with design-change practice: modifying dimensions and features on completed models, observing how well-planned versus poorly-planned feature trees respond to change, and building the diagnostic skill to identify and repair broken model references — a capability directly relevant to the iterative design-revision cycles standard on real product development projects.
Advanced Features
With core solid-modeling competency established, this module extends part-modeling capability into the advanced feature sets required for real-world mechanical design work. Surface modeling introduces surface creation, editing, and knitting techniques used for complex geometry that solid-modeling tools alone cannot efficiently produce — a capability relevant to product-design and equipment-housing work across GCC manufacturing. Sheet metal basics cover flange and bend features, K-factor and bend-allowance concepts, and flat-pattern generation — foundational competency for the metal-fabrication and enclosure-design work common in industrial equipment projects across SABIC, Borouge, and regional manufacturing facilities. Weldment modeling addresses structural-member design using SolidWorks' weldment toolset, including weld-bead representation and cut-list generation for fabricated steel structures. Configuration management closes the module: building multiple design variants (dimensional, feature-suppression, or material variants) within a single part or assembly file, and the design-table methodology that manages configuration data efficiently — a technique that significantly reduces file proliferation on product families with multiple size or material variants, a common requirement for manufacturers serving diverse GCC industrial and commercial markets.
Assemblies
This module builds professional assembly-design competency, addressing how individual parts combine into functioning mechanical systems. Mate types are covered systematically — standard mates (coincident, concentric, distance, angle), advanced mates (limit, path, linear coupler), and mechanical mates (gear, cam, hinge) that define both position and permitted motion between components. Subassembly structuring addresses how large assemblies are organised into logical subassembly groupings that mirror manufacturing and procurement structure — a practice that directly supports bill-of-materials accuracy on multi-component product designs. Motion-check practice covers manually driving assembly degrees of freedom to verify mechanism function before committing to detailed part design, catching interference and kinematic problems early when they are cheap to fix. Interference detection tools are applied systematically to identify part clashes that manual visual inspection misses, particularly relevant on dense mechanical assemblies typical of industrial equipment and machinery design. The module closes with top-down design methodology: developing assembly layout sketches that drive individual part geometry from a master reference, a workflow that keeps large assemblies coordinated as design changes propagate — the assembly-design discipline expected of mechanical engineers and product designers delivering equipment and machinery projects across GCC manufacturing and industrial sectors.
Drawings & Detailing
This module builds professional engineering-drawing competency, translating 3D models into the 2D documentation that manufacturing, procurement, and quality teams depend on. View creation covers standard orthographic projection, section views, detail views, and auxiliary views, with attention to view-selection logic that communicates part geometry clearly without redundant or confusing information. Dimensioning practice addresses driven versus reference dimensioning, dimension placement conventions, and the model-based dimensioning approach that keeps drawing dimensions synchronised with the underlying parametric model. Tolerancing introduces both conventional plus-minus tolerancing and an introduction to geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) concepts relevant to precision-manufactured components. Bill-of-materials (BOM) generation covers automated BOM creation from assembly structure, custom-property mapping, and the BOM-formatting conventions that align with procurement and ERP-system requirements common in GCC manufacturing operations. Exploded views are covered for both documentation and assembly-instruction purposes. The module closes with drawing-standard compliance: applying ISO or ANSI drawing conventions consistently, and building the drawing-template discipline that keeps a design office's output professionally consistent across a full product-development portfolio.
Design Validation Basics
Before a design proceeds to manufacturing, it requires validation, and this module introduces the design-verification competencies that catch problems while changes remain inexpensive. Mass-properties analysis covers extracting mass, center of gravity, and moment-of-inertia data directly from the model — information required for structural calculations, shipping and handling assessments, and mechanism dynamics analysis on equipment and machinery projects. Basic simulation concepts introduce static stress analysis fundamentals: how finite element analysis discretises a model, applies loads and constraints, and produces stress and displacement results, giving participants the conceptual literacy to interpret simulation output and communicate with dedicated analysis specialists even without becoming simulation experts themselves. Manufacturability checks close the module with practical design-for-manufacturing principles: draft-angle verification for cast or molded parts, wall-thickness consistency checks, minimum-feature-size awareness for machined components, and the design-review discipline that identifies manufacturability problems before a design reaches fabrication — a quality-control step that prevents costly tooling and production delays on manufacturing projects across Saudi Arabia's growing industrial base and the wider GCC production sector.
Data Management & Outputs
Professional CAD output depends on disciplined data management, and this module builds the file-organisation and handover competency expected in production design environments. File-organisation practice covers folder-structure conventions, file-naming standards, and the reference-management discipline that keeps assembly and drawing files correctly linked as a project scales beyond a handful of parts. Revision management addresses tracking design changes across a product's development lifecycle, revision-numbering conventions, and the practice of maintaining traceable design history that supports both internal quality processes and client change-order documentation. Export formats are covered systematically: neutral formats (STEP, IGES, Parasolid) for cross-platform CAD exchange, mesh formats (STL) for 3D printing and rapid prototyping, and the format-selection logic appropriate to different downstream uses. 3D PDF generation is introduced as an increasingly standard deliverable for sharing interactive 3D models with non-CAD stakeholders — clients, manufacturing partners, and procurement teams — without requiring SolidWorks licenses. The module closes with manufacturing-handover practice: assembling the complete package a fabrication or manufacturing partner requires — drawings, BOMs, native and neutral CAD files, and manufacturing notes — structured to the handover expectations of manufacturing partners and contract fabricators operating across the GCC industrial sector.
Capstone Product Model
The capstone module consolidates every preceding stage of the programme into a single, complete mechanical product design exercise, taking a multi-part assembly from concept through manufacturing-ready output. Participants execute the full workflow independently: applying design-intent planning to part modeling, building an assembly with fully defined mates and verified motion, resolving any interference conditions identified during assembly review, and producing a complete drawing set with properly toleranced dimensions and an automated bill of materials. The exercise deliberately mirrors real GCC product-development work: a realistic mechanical assembly typology drawn from industrial equipment, machinery components, or product-design contexts relevant to regional manufacturing sectors, with manufacturability and configuration-management considerations addressed throughout. Instructor-guided review sessions walk through common modeling errors — fragile feature trees, over-constrained or under-constrained sketches, mate conflicts, and incomplete drawing documentation — providing the corrective feedback that consolidates technical competency into professional design judgment. Participants complete the capstone with a full assembly model, complete drawing package, bill of materials, and a manufacturing-ready export package — a portfolio-ready deliverable that demonstrates end-to-end SolidWorks design capability directly transferable to product-design, manufacturing-engineering, and mechanical-design roles across Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, and the wider GCC industrial and manufacturing sector.
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Course Outcome
On completing this course, you will be able to build parametric mechanical models with sound design intent, design multi-component assemblies with verified motion and interference-free fit, produce professional manufacturing drawings with complete BOMs, and prepare manufacturing-ready export packages — skills directly applicable to mechanical design engineer, product designer, and manufacturing engineer roles across manufacturing firms, product-development studios, and industrial equipment suppliers operating throughout Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, and the wider GCC industrial sector.