The intention of this book is to provide you with a guide for designing package structure and packaging mechanism with SolidWorks 2012. The intended audience is the student, engineer and persons involved in designing packaging structure, product design and mechanical design. The design examples in the chapters are simplified versions of real world designs. The chapter sequences are arranged from basic skills to more advanced skills. It is assumed that the reader has some familiarity with SolidWorks. Topics Covered Sketching and solid modeling The Helix tool and Reference Plane Trim and mirror entities Assembling many part drawings into a more complicated assemble drawing 3-point Arcs and copying sketches from one plane to another plane Sheet metal functions and die cut drawing Cavity and split approaches for designing a mold Calculating fill volumes and using PhotoView 360 Creating a bill of materials for assembly instructions and documentation Sketching complicated components Creating 2D detail drawings from part drawings Advanced mate, subassembly, adding screws and nuts based on the Design Library Creating the exploded views Table of Contents 1. Cushion design for a printer 2. Design of a bottle and a cap 3. Design of a corrugated box and a divider 4. Design of a pallet 5. Assembly of the corrugated box, the divider and the bottle 6. Design of an apple tray 7. Design of a gift box 8. Mold design for the bottle 9. Placing a label on the bottle 10. Assembly drawing of the exploded shipping packaging 11. Design of a cam shaft 12. Design of a turn handle 13. Detail drawing for the cam shaft 14. Detail drawing for the turn handle 15. Assembly of the cam gear housing 16. Exploded view of the cam gear housing