GETTING STARTED

Wondering where to start? Why not check out this three minute video that will introduce you to the main areas of the interface along with the basic controls, it's a must watch for anyone that’s new to SOLIDWORKS.

SOLIDWORKS is full of options to customise your user experience, but it doesn't have to be overwhelming. Here we breakdown some essential settings that we recommend new users choose to help you get the most from your SOLIDWORKS package. Learn how to optimise your workflow, enhance your modelling, and create your own SOLIDWORKS environment that you can take with you to any computer with this helpful guide.

In this video we look through the ways to customise your SOLIDWORKS to make it easier for you to get you to get on with designing.

Every seat of SOLIDWORKS comes with a large, customizable material library that contains the definition of materials, their mechanical properties and default appearances. In this video we'll teach you how to customize this library.

This video will give you everything you need to know to get to grips with sketching, we will look at how to start a sketch, Creating geometry and adding relations and dimensions. This video is particularly helpful if you have recently attended the SOLIDWORKS essentials course or are planning on attending the course soon.

This video will look at some basic features you can add to your designs, this will go through the location of some of the features, how to adjust the features and how they work in your designs.

This video will look at the basics of assembly modelling in SOLIDWORKS, we will look at inserting components into an assembly, How to add mates to those components to create create controlled movements, we will also look at component states and configurations.

This video will look at creating new drawing files in SOLIDWORKS. We will look at adding in custom properties, how to navigate drawings and how to create clean and clear drawings

Sheet metal parts in SOLIDWORKS are a special category of model, this video will go through sheet metal features and how best to use them

This video will look at some basic features you can add to your designs, this will go through the location of some of the features, how to adjust the features and how they work in your designs.

This video will show you how to to start with 3D sketching, it covers why would you use a 3D sketch, how to access a 3D sketch, what available sketch entities are in SOLIDWORKS and essential tools for 3D sketching.

This video give an introduction to Mould tools. The steps required to create a mould tool. This tutorial will also give you the chance to create a mould tool for a first aid box