Explore the various ways that file references can impact your SOLIDWORKS workflow. Discover how to diagnose and resolve common file reference issues.

Learn how to import foreign geometry into SOLIDWORKS and leverage it in your designs.

Learn how to install, maintain, and upgrade SOLIDWORKS—both the standalone, home use, and network license versions.

Discover Autodesk HSMXpress, the 2.5 axis CAM plugin that brings integrated CAM to SOLIDWORKS. Learn how to set up a machine and fixtures, configure tools, and generate toolpaths.

Learn how to tell a story about your product design by creating movies in SOLIDWORKS.

Discover how to increase your SOLIDWORKS productivity by storing commonly used elements in the Design Library.

Learn a new way to approach SOLIDWORKS design: from the top down, creating master models that are easy to update, highly organized, and have parts that align smoothly.

Learn how to use SOLIDWORKS mesh tools to convert scan data into usable surface and solid bodies.

Do you need to design and build gears for work, study, or a hobby? In this course, instructor Ryan Krawchuk covers the basics of mechanical gears, gives a hands-on lesson on modeling a spur gear using SOLIDWORKS, and then describes how to create a simple assembly. Ryan begins with a description of spur gears, helical gears, and others gears, as well as their respective applications. He covers key gear design attributes and nomenclature. Ryan steps you through spur gear equations, for both metric and English measurement systems, then goes through each step in modeling a spur gear. Once your gear model is complete, he shows you how to design the mounting plate that gears sit on, how to insert gears and mounting plates into your assembly, and how to use concentric and coincident gear mates. He discusses how to use a series of gear mates to allow gears to rotate dynamically to one another, then concludes by showing you how to animate your assembly with a SOLIDWORKS motion study.

Learn how to design high-quality molds and casts—for one-off prototyping or mass production—in SOLIDWORKS.

Learn how to improve SOLIDWORKS performance and tune your workstation. Explore how various SOLIDWORKS options affect performance, learn tips and tricks for avoiding performance problems in the first place, and more.

Learn how to use the SOLIDWORKS Premium routing tools for piping and tubing applications.

Learn to design parts and assemblies using the sheet metal tools in SOLIDWORKS (versions 2013 through 2017).

Learn to design parts and assemblies using the sheet metal tools in SOLIDWORKS.

Learn how to handle thin-walled and frame-like structures in SOLIDWORKS FEA simulations using shell and beam element modeling.

Discover how to set up a model for finite element analysis, run the analysis, and interpret the results to optimize your SOLIDWORKS models.

Learn about the essential tools and functions for sketching in SOLIDWORKS. Discover how to leverage key sketch settings, use sketch and spline tools, approach 3D sketching, and more.

Get up to speed with the surfacing tools within SOLIDWORKS fast. Learn how to create and modify surfaces, troubleshoot common issues, and manipulate faces in surfaces and solids.

Extend the capabilities of SOLIDWORKS with the SOLIDWORKS Tools suite. Learn how to customize the toolbox, prepare parts for routing, troubleshoot drawings, and more.

Learn all about SOLIDWORKS Utilities, a set of tools that allow you to examine in detail the geometry of a solid model and make comparisons to other models.