Use Layers for Drawing Control
Organize and control line weights, colors, and visibility in drawings using layers.
Wrap Sketches on Curved Surfaces
Discover how to project 2D sketches onto curved faces using the Wrap tool, great for text, logos, or cutting.
Rib Feature for Fast Structural Support
The Rib tool lets you quickly create support material between sketch profiles and existing geometry, ideal for internal stiffeners or bracing. You'll learn how to sketch a single line, use direction control, and avoid common pitfalls like failed features from sharp intersections. Perfect for strengthening plastic parts or adding webbing to designs.
Optimize Flat Patterns
Learn techniques to simplify and clean up flat pattern representations for laser cutting or bending operations.
Combine Bodies into One Solid
Learn how to merge multiple solid bodies into one using the Combine feature. This is especially helpful when working with multi-body parts or imported geometry. We’ll cover the difference between Add, Subtract, and Common operations, plus tips for keeping features editable after combining.
Convert Entities – Sketch Smarter
Learn how to reuse geometry from edges or faces in your sketch using the "Convert Entities" tool. It’s a huge time-saver and keeps your sketches tied to existing geometry.
Instant3D for Real-Time Editing
Modify dimensions and drag geometry on the fly using Instant3D. Perfect for visual, fast modeling.
SpeedPak for Large Assemblies
Learn how to use SpeedPak to reduce assembly file size and boost performance while keeping essential faces for mating.
Performance Challenges of large STEP Import Files
Large import files often contain a large number of very small parts that are not needed for layout drawings, for example, but may be important for a collision analysis.
SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation Templates
This video demonstrates how SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation Templates can save engineers up to 80% of setup time by allowing them to save, share, and reuse complete simulation configurations across projects and teams.
Simulation and openness for external tools
SOLIDWORKS is open to be accessed from external tool. In this case it is connected with Abaqus to perform a nonlinear simulation. Afterwards Isight is used to automate this connection and to run an optimization to find the best geometry parameters for the problem.
Smart Components in Assemblies
Speed up repetitive tasks by using Smart Components to auto-insert associated parts and features (like holes or cuts) when dropped into an assembly. It’s perfect for hardware, fittings, or commonly reused parts.
Fully Define Sketches Quickly
Stop fighting underdefined sketches. This video shows how to use the "Fully Define Sketch" tool to lock down geometry fast — great for parametric control.
Auto-Populate Drawings with Model Items
Learn how to bring in dimensions and annotations from the 3D model into your 2D drawing instantly with "Model Items."
Custom Keyboard Shortcuts
Speed up your workflow by assigning and customizing your most-used commands to hotkeys.
3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS
Step into SOLIDWORKS future equipped with Cloud Services. Short description of differences to SOLIDWORKS Desktop. How Cloud Services help customers to get design more precisely and quickly and keep production data always in perfect shape, easy to manage, collaborate and share.
2D Layout Block from SOLIDWORKS view
Learn how to create a 2D Block from a SOLIDWORKS view to interoperate with your 2D Layouts in DraftSight.
Mirror Part Feature
Save time creating symmetrical parts by using the "Mirror Part" feature instead of mirroring bodies manually.
Defeature
With the Defeature tool, you can remove details from a part or assembly and save the results to a new file in which the details are replaced by dumb solids (that is, solids without feature definition or history). You can then share the new file without revealing all the design details of the model.