SolidWorks

Part modeling

Assembly
modeling

2D drawing

SolidWorks Layout
Pull down menu

Standard
menu

View orientation, 2D and 3D

View toolbar

Principal
planes

Right click
on any
principal
plane icon

Sketch
toolbar

SolidWorks Layout - Views

Front

Right side

Top

Two dimensional orthographic views

Standard
Orthographic views
and 3D views

Zoom to fit

Previous view

View perpendicular
to a selected plane

3D isometric
view

Dynamic zoom

Zoom window

Rotate

Pan

3D View Options
Hidden Lines Visible
Shaded View

Provides shadow
in shaded mode

Wireframe

Hidden Lines
Removed

SolidWorks Sketch Commands

2D Sketch
Enter/Exit
Grid/Snap

3D Sketch

Drawing
tools

Modifying
tools

SolidWorks Sketch Commands

Importing an image
into the sketch
environment
Spline outlining
the product

SolidWorks Sketch Commands

Project entities into
a new sketch plane
for reference

Chamfer
Fillet

Offset

Mirror

Split
entities
Projected entities
Move

Rotate

Rectangular
Array

Circular
Array

SolidWorks Sketch Commands

Locates the intersection of two planes

and turns it into a sketch curve

Allows you to extract a curve for

other applications, not active in
sketch mode.

Plane 1
Plane 2

3D curve

Select

Constraints
Two curved entities

Apply constraints (relations) to entities. Select

entities and then select the desired constraint
Selection window

Two straight entities