SOLIDWORKS 2025 - Essential Training | 25 Projects

Understand SolidWorks as a parametric, feature-based CAD software that creates 3d models from 2d sketches, allows precise parameter-driven control, builds assemblies, and generates 2d drawings for manufacturing.

Identify SolidWorks file formats and templates, including part (.sldprt), assembly (.sldasm), and drawing (.slddrw), and use quick filters and file open to access the right templates and options.

Explore design intent in SolidWorks by linking dimensions and creating geometric relations so a hole stays centered as plate sizes change, showcasing parametric CAD and automatic propagation.

Explore the SolidWorks welcome screen, access templates for parts, assemblies, and drawings, open files, view recent documents and folders, log in, and discover learn tutorials and alerts.

Navigate the SolidWorks user interface, opening part, assembly, or drawing files, and identify key areas like the command manager, feature manager design tree, graphic window, and status bar.

Discover the title bar and quick access toolbar in SolidWorks, with file operations, dropdown menus, and the File, View, and Tools tabs.

Explore the command manager in SOLIDWORKS 2025. Customize tabs, groups, and tools for part, drawing, and sheet metal environments; learn how to enable, deactivate, add, remove, and arrange commands.

Explore the feature manager design area in SolidWorks, focusing on the design tree and property manager, plus configuration manager across part and assembly environments.

Explore the heads-up toolbar in the graphic window and master zoom, fit, section view, view orientation, view selector, display style, hide/show items, and view settings to control appearance and perspectives.

Explore the task pane in solidworks, access solidworks resources and the design library to insert fasteners and standard components into assemblies, while learning to manage pane visibility.

Explore the context sensitive shortcut menu that changes with your selection, revealing different options and tools. Learn how the context toolbar adapts to edges, faces, and assembly contexts.

Master the SolidWorks comment feature to annotate assemblies and parts, attach screenshots with timestamps, set show on open, and share feedback with teammates directly inside the file.

Learn to zoom, pan, and rotate a model in SolidWorks 2025 using the middle mouse button, zoom to fit or area, and pan with the Ctrl key.

Learn to change model view orientation in solidworks 2025 using the heads up toolbar, space key, and shortcuts like ctrl+1 for front and ctrl+4 for right, plus multi-view options.

Use mouse gesture to quickly activate tools and orient a part to front, top, or right view. Customize in SolidWorks environments and access the measure tool.

Show or hide sketches, planes, axes, and annotations using the heads up toolbar across parts, sketches, assemblies, and drawings.

Learn to create and customize section views in SolidWorks 2025, selecting planes, adjusting direction, color, and exclusions across up to three sections for clear internal visualization.

Explore advanced options in section view, switching between planar and zonal methods, selecting planes or an axis, and customizing zones, transparency, and saved views.

Learn to create, save, open, and close Solidworks files using part, assembly, and drawing templates, and filter by type to locate files.

Learn to create a new sketch in a part file, an assembly, or a drawing, select a plane, and use sketch editing mode to draw, edit, or discard changes.

Learn to create and edit lines in a SOLIDWORKS sketch with the line tool: activate from the sketch tab or Tools menu, set two points, and manage chain.

Create centerline, midpoint line, infinity line, and construction line in solidworks 2025 by using line tools, toggling options, and converting lines between construction, centerline, and infinity length.

Explore box and lasso sketch selection methods to pick single or multiple entities, understand clockwise versus anticlockwise behavior, and use the control key to add selections.

Create various rectangle entities in a SolidWorks sketch by using five rectangle types on the front plane, including corner, center, three-point, three-point centre, and parallelogram.

Learn to create circles in sketch environment using the circle tool on front plane, with center and diameter or radius, or a perimeter circle via three lines and construction geometry.

Create arcs in a sketch using center point, three-point, or tangent methods; specify center, radius, and angle or define two endpoints and radius.

Learn how to use the document group option in SolidWorks to save, close, and reopen all open documents at once, enabling fast recovery of 13 files.

Learn how constraints govern sketches in SolidWorks, using geometric and dimensional constraints to keep a circle centered in a rectangle and achieve design intent.

Explore automatic geometric constraints in SolidWorks 2025, creating horizontal, vertical, parallel, co-linear, perpendicular, and tangent sketch relations via inferencing lines, and know when manual constraints better capture design intent.

Learn to create geometric relations manually in SolidWorks 2025 by using the add relation tool or direct selection, specifying equal, colinear, vertical, and other constraints to control sketch intent.

Delete sketch geometric relations in SOLIDWORKS by hovering to highlight entities, then pressing delete, or use the Display/Delete Relations tool to remove selected, all, or external, broken, or dangling relations.

Learn to use the Smart Dimension tool to dimension sketch entities, set tolerances and names, switch between radius and diameter, and manage driven versus driving dimensions with leaders.

Master the on screen numeric input to create sketch entities and add dimensions in SOLIDWORKS 2025, enabling the feature and using add dimension for precise lines and rectangles.

Master fully defining a sketch in SolidWorks by applying dimensions and constraints, using the fully defining sketch tool, and verifying the status bar to ensure all entities are black.

Identify and fix an over defined sketch in SolidWorks 2025. Diagnose conflicts, choose between driven and driving dimensions, and use SketchXpert for manual repair.

Learn to create fillets inside a sketch using the fillet tool from the sketch tab, selecting a vertex or two lines and applying 10 mm with keep constrained corners.

demonstrates how to create a chamfer inside a sketch using the chamfer tool in SolidWorks 2025. shows angle-distance and distance-distance options with vertex or line selections for precise chamfers.

Create polygon shapes in a sketch using the polygon tool on the front plane. Choose sides and select inscribed or circumscribed mode to measure diameter edge-to-edge or vertex-to-vertex.

Create and fully define an ellipse in a sketch by specifying its center, major axis, and minor axis, then use the partial ellipse tool with start and end points.

Create a linear pattern of a sketch entity with direction 1 and direction 2, set spacing and instances on the x-axis and y-axis, adjust angle, and skip instances if needed.

Use the circular sketch pattern tool to create a circular pattern of a sketch entity, setting center, radius, angle to 360°, and equal spacing for multiple instances.

Trim sketch entities in SolidWorks with the power trim tool, including extend, corner types, and trim away inside or to closest, while maintaining defined sketches and construction geometry.

Use the convert entities tool to convert sketch geometry, including outer edges and inner loops from a face, unlink the sketch, and set construction geometry with the for construction option.

Create offset entities from sketch elements in SolidWorks 2025, by specifying an offset value, adding dimension, reversing direction, selecting chain or bi-directional, and applying cap and construction geometry options.

Mirror sketch entities using the mirror entities tool in the sketch tab, selecting entities, setting mirror about a center line, and choosing copy or delete options to create mirrored versions.

Use the intersection curve tool in the sketch tab to create curves between a plane and a surface, two faces, two surfaces, or an entire part.

Master sketching techniques in SolidWorks 2025 by using a single sketch for multiple features, and learn to start from the sketch center for symmetric parts.

Explore two sketching techniques in solidworks 2025: start with a large sketch area if you know the design, or create an overall shape first and add geometric and dimensional relations.

Create a sketch on the front plane, apply and link dimensions using equal sign to drive from an overall dimension, and use mirror entities to speed design while honoring intent.

Practice sketching in solidworks by choosing a sketch origin, creating the overall shape, adding circle and chamfer, and defining driven and equal dimensions in millimeters.

Create an axially symmetry sketch with two circles and an outer shape, then apply a circular pattern and merge its center with the sketch center.

Create the outer shape first, then build the inner sketch using offset distances and arcs, establish tangent relations and vertical construction geometry, and finalize with offset, trim, and dimensions.

Learn to create a SolidWorks sketch on the front plane using a sketch center point, outer and inner shapes, offset curves of 0.1 inch, and extend curves with tangent relations.

Practice project 05 sketch teaches building the outer shape with circles and arcs, applying tangent relations, using offset curves, trimming, and keeping constrained corners to complete a precise SOLIDWORKS sketch.

Create an axial symmetric sketch on one side, mirror it, and apply a six-instance circular pattern using a circle radius 2.5 with tangent and center-line constraints.

Create the right side of the sketch in SolidWorks, then apply mirror tools and tangent relations with a front plane, rectangle, construction geometry, and metric units.

Start a sketch on the front plane, apply dimensions and geometric relations including tangent, parallel, coincidence, and horizontal constraints, and fully define the sketch with an arc center alignment.

Create a sketch on the front plane in SolidWorks 2025, applying trim, arcs with vertical and tangent constraints, and optionally mirror, then trim to finish the 70-degree, 50% split.

Create this sketch in SolidWorks by forming the outer shaft and final shape on the front plane, using tangent relations, offset curves, and trim operations.