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Engineering Design with SOLIDWORKS® 2018 Overview of SOLID WORKS® and the User Interface

Drop-down menu

Fil , Edit View Insert Tools Window Help _,.
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SOLIOWORKS takes advantage of the familiar Microsoft® L) New .. . Ctrl+N

Windows user interface. Communicate with SOLIOWORKS ~ Open .. . Ctrl+O

Open Recent •
through drop-down menus, Context sensitive toolbars,

~ Close Ctrl +W

Consolidated toolbars or the CommandManager tabs.

2~ Make Drawing from Part

, ,/ ,® Make Assembly from Part

-;Q~ A command is an instruction that informs ~ ij Save Ctrl+S
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W SaveAs ...
SOLIOWORKS to perform a task.

U1& Save AII

Page Setup ...
To close a SOLIOWORKS drop-down menu, press the Esc

~ Print Preview ...
key. You can also click any other part of the SOLIOWORKS ~ Print ... Ctrl+P

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Graphics window or click another drop-down menu. [ f Print3D ...

Publ h ~[.\\.' '\ -:ir~

{(6 Publish to eDrawings
Create a New Part Document

Pack and Go ...

In the next section create a new part document.

Activity: Create a new Part Document.

A part is a 30 model, which consists of features. What are

features? ~l~ l~l$ i~I >

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• Features are geometry building blocks. ~ TRIANGLE (Default< <Default> j

~ I History

• Most features either add or remove material. [fl:] Sensors

~ [A I Annotations
• Some features do not affect material (Cosmetic Thread).

~ Equations

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• Features are created either from 20 or 30 sketched profiles ~:a Material <not specified>

[!] Front Plane
or from edges and faces of existing geometry.

(!] Top Plane

• Features are individual shapes that, combined with other [!] Right Plane

features, makes up a part or assembly. Some features, such l. Origin

as bosses and cuts, originate as sketches. Other features, such ... ~ Boss-Extrude1

L_ Sketch1
as shells and fillets, modify a feature's geometry.

... ~ Cut- Extrude1

• Features are displayed in the FeatureManager as illustrated L_ Sketch2

(Boss-Extrude 1, Cut-Extrude 1, Cut-Extrude2, Mirror 1, ... ~ Cut-Extrude2

Cut-Extrude3 and CirPatteml). L_ Sketch3

G3~ Mirror1
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... ~ Cut- Extrude3

-;Q~ The first sketch of a part is called the Base Sketch. The L_ Sketch4

Base sketch is the foundation for the 30 model. In this book, we Iii~(] CirPattern1

focus on 20 sketches and 30 features.

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