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User interface

User interface - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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User interface

- [Instructor] Let's get started by opening up the SolidWorks Composer software for the very first time. Of course, I'll just double click my icon to open up the software but an important thing to note here is that with the SolidWorks Composer I have two slightly different looking icons. First, I have just my standard SolidWorks icon with some gold boxes over top and this is the full SolidWorks Composer software. I also have a SolidWorks Composer icon with some silver boxes over top and this is just the SolidWorks Composer Player as we can see, so this is just a free viewing software and won't be used to edit or design any files. So, throughout this course, of course, we'll be using the full SolidWorks Composer software, so we'll just double click to launch for my first time here. Once opened, we will see the general user interface. Now it may look familiar as it is a Windows-based software, so at the top for example I have a number of ribbon tabs and this is similar to say my…

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