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Basic Concepts Solidworks 3D Solid Geometry

A Solidworks model consists of 3D solid geometry in a part or assembly document. Drawings are created from models, or by drafting views in a drawing document. Typically, you begin with a sketch, create a base feature, and then add more features to your model• A SolidWorks model consists of parts, assemblies, and drawings. • Typically, you begin with a sketch, create a base feature, and then add more features to your model. • You are free to refine your design by adding, changing, or reordering features. • Associativity between parts, assemblies, and drawings assures that changes made to one view are automatically made to all other views. • You can generate drawings or assemblies at any time in the design process. • The SolidWorks software lets you customize functionality to suit your needs. • Click Tools, Options on the main menu to display the available System Options and Document Properties tabs. • The SolidWorks software saves your work for you. The auto recover option automatically saves information about your active part, assembly, or drawing document so you do not lose your work in case of a system crash. To set this option, click Tools, Options. On the System Options tab, click Backups and select Save auto recover info every changes. Specify the number of changes that should occur before information is automatically saved. To organize your SolidWorks window, you can minimize open documents. Click Minimize in the upper right corner of the document border. An icon appears in the lower part of the SolidWorks window. If the icon is not visible, it may be behind another open document. Resize any open documents as necessary. Click Window, Arrange Icons to arrange them at the bottom of the SolidWorks window. • Click Window, Close All to close all open documents. You are prompted to save any unsaved documents.

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