Solidworks Notes

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

  1. Create new sketch
  2. Select Plane
  3. Draw Sketch
  4. Smart Dimension
  5. Exit Sketch
  6. 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)

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