Learning SOLIDWORKS

Introduction

• Design your world with SOLIDWORKS

• Launch SOLIDWORKS for the first time
• Navigate in the 3D workspace

• Create sketches
• Understanding relationships
• Use the Extrude and Extrude Cut features
• Create revolved and revolved cut features
• System options, units, and templates

• Line, Center Line, and Rectangle tools
• Circles, arcs, slots, and ellipses
• Use the Spline tool and make polygons
• Add dimensions

• Trim and extend portions of a sketch
• Create offset geometry and convert geometry
• Use the Sketch Mirror tool
• Use construction lines to build robust sketches

• Build reference planes

• Add fillets and chamfers to a part
• Use the Mirror command
• Create linear and circular patterns

• Get started with the Hole Wizard

• Start an assembly
• Arrange, copy, move, and rotate parts
• Mate parts together in an assembly
• Download premade parts from the internet

• Get started with part drawings
• Assembly drawings
• Drawings views and annotations

• Next steps