Introduction to SolidWorks

Lesson 1 – Introducing SolidWorks
Section I – Preliminaries 1.4 The SolidWorks Interface

Notice that there are three kinds of documents in SolidWorks:

(1) parts,

(2) assemblies of parts, and

(3) drawings of parts or assemblies.

We will study them in that order in future lessons.

1.4 The SolidWorks Interface

Step 3: When you open a new Part document you get additional toolbars and pull-down menus
as shown in Figure 1.4.

 Toolbars and commands are context sensitive. The commands that are available and

related to what the user is doing are in color and the commands that are not available

are shown gray.

A new toolbar is the View HeadsUp toolbar, at the top-center of the Graphics Area. It can be
customized, as we shall see later. The question mark at the lower-right corner can be clicked to
get help.

Figure 1. 3 b – Advanced Screen for a New Document