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Launching SOLIDWORKS for the first time

Launching SOLIDWORKS for the first time - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Launching SOLIDWORKS for the first time

- SolidWorks is the world leader in 3d solid modeling software. SolidWorks is both a history and feature based parametric modeling program. The software uses a simple set of tools and commands to help you design parts, assemblies and drawings. Now let's go ahead and fire up SolidWorks. At the bottom of the screen, I've got solidworks, let's go ahead and click on that it's going to fire up SolidWorks. You can see here working on SolidWorks 2020. When that opens up, you can see we've got what we call the home screen. Now the home screen has the recent documents you might've been working with. It also has the recent folders you've been looking in. It gives you some resources down here, as far as what's new, my SolidWorks, the SolidWorks forums, the customer portal and so on. And then right over here, you can see I've got the part assembly and drawing buttons. Now Solidworks has three different modes, right, so you can jump…

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