From the course: SOLIDWORKS: 3D Printed Product Enclosure

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How to use the exercise files

How to use the exercise files - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: 3D Printed Product Enclosure

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How to use the exercise files

- [Narrator] Before we actually start building our enclosure model. We're going to talk very briefly about SOLIDWORKS files and how to use the Exercise Files in this course. One important thing to note about SOLIDWORKS is that native SOLIDWORKS files are not backwards compatible. So parts, assemblies, and drawings. For example, SOLIDWORKS files created in SOLIDWORKS 2019, cannot be opened by earlier versions. So 2019 files won't work in SOLIDWORKS 2018, 17, 16, and so on. To get around this, we can export files as different file types that can be opened by all versions and a good format to use for this is the STEP file format. This can also be exported and opened by a wide range of different CAD programs other than SOLIDWORKS. So it's very useful. To start off this course we'll be importing a PCB model, a printed circuit board. And then we'll be building around that. So to allow these files to be used by people using…

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