From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2019 Essential Training
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Launching SOLIDWORKS - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2019 Essential Training
Launching SOLIDWORKS
- [Instructor] 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 command to help you design parts, assemblies, and drawings. Let's go over to the desktop and fire up SOLIDWORKS. Right here I can click on the icon on the screen. All right, SOLIDWORKS loads, and this is what you first see when you first jump into the software. So what we call that is the home screen, or the welcome screen right over here. It says welcome to SOLIDWORKS, right over here at the top we have the ability to start a part, an assembly, or a drawing. And we can also switch over to the advanced mode. But for right now, let's just go ahead and stick with the basic part assembly and drawing. We can also come over and click on the open icon here to open up an existing document where right down here you'll see recent documents. Now, I only have one recent document 'cause this is a fresh…
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