Prerequisites: Mechanical design experience; experience with the Windows™ operating system.
Description: SolidWorks Essentials teaches you how to use the SolidWorks mechanical design automation software to build parametric models of parts and assemblies, and how to make drawings of those parts and assemblies.
The topics covered in this course are:
    Introduction
    Lesson 1: SolidWorks Basics and the User Interface
    Lesson 2: Introduction to Sketching
    Lesson 3: Basic Part Modeling
    Lesson 4: Modeling a Casting or Forging
    Lesson 6: Revolved Features
    Lesson 7: Shelling and Ribs
    Lesson 9: Editing: Design Changes
    Lesson 10: Using Drawings
    Lesson 11: Bottom-Up Assembly Modeling
    Lesson 12: Using Assemblies
    Appendix A: Templates