SolidWorks Tutorial 0: The SolidWorks User Interface
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Introduction
SolidWorks is a very powerful CAD system, which is also to say that it can be very frustrating at times. This page summarizes some of the most important features of the user interface to help you learn to navigate through it.
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In the past at AA, there have been some tricks. As of this writing, all of the earlier glitches with license management seem to have been solved and starting the application is quite easy.