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Creating your first 3D part

Creating your first 3D part - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Creating your first 3D part

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- Thank you for joining me for the SolidWorks Quick start. In this chapter, I'm going to be showing you how to create assemblies, parts and drawings in a very quick four movies. We're not going to cover all the fine details, but we will show you the essential tools you need to know to get up to speed quickly using the software. This section of the course is called the quick start guide, and I'm going to be showing you some of the basic steps for creating 3D solids inside of SolidWorks. To get started, let's go ahead and fire up a brand new part. Now I can either click on the home icon here at the top or just click on New. And that gives me the option for a part, an assembly or a drawing. And I want to start with a part. So click on that and then click on OK. All right, now we're here. And the first thing, anything that's going to be designed inside of SolidWorks needs to have is a sketch on a face or a plane. Now the planes are right over here, so you got the front plane, you got the…

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