The intention of this book is to provide you with a guide for designing package structure and packaging mechanism with SolidWorks 2013. 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 assembly 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 Introduction Cushion Design for a Printer Design of a Bottle and a Cap Design of a Corrugated box and a Divider Assembly of the Shipping Box, the Divider and the Bottle Design of an Apple Tray Design of a Gift Box Mold Design for the Bottle Placing a Label on the Bottle Drawing for the Cushion Foam Wrapping a Logo onto a Bottle Rendering and Animation of the Bottle and Cap Assembly Drawing of the Exploded Shipping Packaging Pump Sprayer with Animation and Rendering Product in Blister Pack Metal Food Can Product in Clam Shell Package Static Loading Simulation of the Filled Bottle Drop Simulation of the Bottle Frequency Analysis of the Filled Bottle