FreeCAD Tutorial 0: The FreeCAD User Interface
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SolidWorks runs on PCs not Macs. You need to be handy with the standard three-button mouse on the PC. Further, you need a mouse in which the middle button is actually a wheel, not a button. This is shown below.
On the PC, the LEFT mouse button is used for selection.
The MIDDLE button (actually a wheel) is used to move the part rendering around in the graphical space. The wheel functions as BOTH a button and a track-wheel, so there is a lot you can do with it.
If you spin the wheel, that causes the image to zoom in and out.
If you click down on the wheel and drag the mouse, this causes the image to pan around the window.
Rotating the image is done through the
If you hold down the -CTRL- button, click down on the wheel and drag the mouse, it causes the part to pan around the screen rather than rotate.
There are a few other features too, but these should suffice for most users.
