Help Menu > Solidworks tutorials is a good place to go if stuck
GrabCAD is an online source of downloadable CAD files which can help you to learn how they made a model – with the feature tree you can see every step of them making the model
I have used Lynda.com to start learning Solidworks
Basic Modelling order
- Create new sketch
- Select Plane
- Draw Sketch
- Smart Dimension
- Exit Sketch
- Create Features from sketch
- Coincident – Same point
- Concentric – Same centre
- Collinear – Share same line
Configurations
Setting Document Tolerances
Tools > Options > Document Properties > Dimensions > Primary Precision (Half way down)