Index

  • 2D data, imported, layers, 809–810
  • 2D sketches
    • feature‐based modeling and, 15–16
    • Wrap feature, 271–272
  • 3 Point Arc tool, 69
  • 3D Drawing View, 749–750
  • 3D Drawing View tool, 150
  • 3D geometry, 113
  • 3D Interconnect, 1051–1052
  • 3D patterns, 291
  • 3D planes, 203
  • 3D Planes PropertyManager, 203
  • 3D Sketch Plane tool, 71
  • 3D Sketch tool, 65
  • 3D sketches
    • dimensions, 204
    • extruding from, 220
    • Instant 3D, 221
    • Layout feature, 505
    • mirroring in, 291
    • navigating in space, 201–202
    • path segments, planar, 204
    • relations, 202–203
    • space handle, 201
    • weldments, 1017–1018
      • dimensions, 1021–1022
      • navigating, 1018–1019
      • path segment limits, 1021
      • plane creation, 1020–1021
      • sketch relations, 1019
  • 3D solids, mirroring, 308–310
  • 3D surfaces, extruding, 910

A

  • absorbed sketches, 372
  • ACIS, imported geometry and, 1049
  • activation, Help menu options, 6–7
  • Add Dimensions option, 66
  • Add Relation PropertyManager, 71
  • Add Relation tool, 71
  • Add Relations dialog box, 71
  • Add Relations tool, 89
  • Advanced and Mechanical mates, 462
  • Advanced interface, 12
  • Alerts tab (Welcome dialog), 7
  • Align Collinear/Radial alignment tool, 803
  • Align Parallel/Concentric alignment tool, 803
  • alignment
    • annotations, 802–803
    • breaking, 803
    • Dimension palette, 803–804
    • dimensions, automatic, 804
    • grid snapping, 803
    • inferencing, 803
    • notes, 771
      • balloons, 771–772
  • All in This Sketch category, 22
  • alternate position views, 745–747, 849–850
  • Alt‐key combinations, 51–52
  • Ambient Occlusion tool, 152
  • Animated Explode/Collapse option, 852–853
  • animation, 669. See also motion; MotionManager
    • action speed, 693–694
    • assemblies
      • closing exploded, 681–682
      • explodes, 678–681
      • timelines, rotation in, 681
    • Basic Motion
      • chains, 698–700
      • contact, 696–697
      • gravity, 696–697
      • motors, 697, 698–700
      • springs, 698–700
    • cameras, paths, 688–690
    • compressors, 695
    • configurations, 671
    • contact, 672
    • dampers, 672
    • display, 673
    • dynamic, 672
    • exploded view, 677–678
    • force, 672
    • free motion, 672
    • friction, 672
    • gravity, 672
    • key points and, 672, 684, 691–692
      • copying motion, 693
      • creating, 685–686
      • Disable Playback of View Keys, 684
      • interpolation, 687
      • mirroring motion, 693
      • mistake correction, 687–688
      • Orientation and Camera Views, 684
      • timebar, 685, 692–693
      • view manipulation, 686
      • zooming, 686
    • MotionManager, 670
    • motors, 672
    • outputting, 694–695
    • parts
    • PhotoView 360 and, 671
    • planning, 672
    • playing, 677
    • RealView, 673
    • rotating, 674–677
    • SolidWorks Visualize, 673
    • springs, 672
    • testing animations, 695
    • views, key points, 684–688
    • zooms, 682
  • Animation Wizard, 669, 671, 674–683
  • Annotation Link Variable, 767
  • Annotation PropertyManager, 772–773
  • annotation views, 156–157, 728–729
    • reference dimensions, 792
  • annotations
    • alignment, 802–803
      • grid snapping, 803
      • inference, 803
    • Design Library, 541
    • notes
      • adding, 775
      • alignment, 771
      • balloons, 771–772
      • custom properties, 774–775
      • Fit Text button, 767
      • fonts, 766, 772–773
      • Format Painter, 774
      • leaders, 769–771
      • Linear Note Pattern PropertyManager, 767–769
      • patterns, 767–769
      • placing, 769–770
      • styles, 772–773
      • symbols and, 779
      • text boxes, 766–767
      • text wrapping, 766–767
      • workflow, 765–766
    • tutorials, 782–784
  • Annotations toolbar
    • CommandManager, 138
    • Note button, 765
  • ANSI standards, 8
  • appearance overrides, 590–591
  • appearances, 160
    • Display States and, 163
    • versus materials, 159–160
    • Overrides, 160–163
    • removing, 164–165
    • views, applying, 157–158
  • Appearances (DisplayManager), 157, 160
    • Appearance filter, 158
    • Appearance palette, 158
    • appearances versus materials, 159–160
    • applying appearances, 157–158
    • Context toolbar, 158
    • Display States, 163
    • Overrides, 160–163
    • removing appearances, 164–165
  • Appearances PropertyManager, 160–163
  • Application window controls, 26
  • Apply Scene tool, 152
  • Arc tool, 62
  • arcs
    • rectangles, 187
    • tangent arcs, 69
    • three‐point, 69
  • Area Hatch/Fill PropertyManager, 857
  • arrow keys, 144
  • assemblies, 8, 415–416. See also large assemblies
    • animation
      • closing exploded, 681–682
      • explodes, 678–681
      • timelines, rotation in, 681
    • BOM (Bill of Materials), 436–437
    • bottom‐up assembly, 422
    • chamfers, 554–555
    • color, layers, 811–812
    • Component Selection tool, 528–532
    • creating, 125–126
    • degrees of freedom, 459–460
    • design
      • base parts, 416–417
      • bottom‐up with mates, 416–417
      • bottom‐up with skeleton, 418
      • in‐context design, 419
      • mates, 416–417
    • display states, 590–592
    • Dynamic Assembly Motion, 459
    • elements, 422–423
    • equations, 423–424
      • configurations and, 425
      • external references, 424
      • global variables, 424
      • renaming, 424
    • exploded, views, 850–854
    • FeatureManager, 126
    • features, applying, 430–431
    • Fillet Beads, 1036–1038
    • fillets, 554–555
    • folders, 438–440
    • layout sketches, 426–427
    • library, 543
    • mates, 127–128
      • Mates folder, 638
      • solving, 435
    • modeling
      • base parts, 416–417
      • bottom‐up with mates, 416–417
      • bottom‐up with skeleton, 418
      • in‐context design, 418
      • master model, 421–422
      • mates, 416–417
      • multibody, 419–421
    • motion, dynamic, 872
    • parts, 429
      • layers, 812–813
      • modeling in place, 419
      • new, 606–607
    • Performance Evaluation tool, 651
    • populating, 126–127
    • PropertyManager, 126
    • reference geometry, 428
    • Reload tool, 653–654
    • SolidWorks Explorer, 425
    • SolidWorks Treehouse, 425–426
    • starting, 606
    • subassemblies, 433–434
      • from existing parts, 434–435
      • flexible, 435–436
      • mates, moving to, 650–651
      • parts, adding and removing, 649–650
      • process depiction, 437–438
      • purchased components, 437
      • relative motion, 437
      • Treehouse and, 649
    • Tree Display, 440–443
    • tutorial, 443–446
    • types, 416
    • virtual components, 428
    • Weld Beads, 1036–1038
  • assembly configurations
    • Advanced Component Selection, 594
    • best practices, 600
    • Configuration Publisher, 599–600
    • design tables, 599
    • Isolate function, 594
    • Modify Configuration interface, 599–600
    • parts
      • lightweight, 595
      • speed and, 593–594
    • performance and, 592
    • positions
      • mates and, 596–597
      • sketches and, 597–598
    • product variations and, 598–599
    • resolved, 595–596
    • SpeedPaks, 593, 595
    • suppression, 592–593
    • tutorial, 600–604
  • assembly cuts, 550–552
    • FeatureScope and, 552–554
  • assembly drawings
    • Broken‐Out section view, 858
      • closed loop, 858–859
      • depth, 859
      • editing, 860
      • properties, 860
    • detached drawings, 861–862
    • Draft Quality views, 865–866
    • features, dimensioning, 845–846
    • lightweight drawings, 863
    • properties
      • assigning document driving, 846–847
      • linking notes to custom, 847
    • Section view
      • alignment, 856–857
      • hatching, 856–857
      • Isometric Sections, 856
      • parts, excluding, 855
    • SpeedPak and, 863–865
    • templates, multi‐page, 847–849
    • tutorial, 866–868
    • views
      • alternate position, 849–850
      • color, 860–861
      • exploded, 850–854
  • Assembly Drawings folder, 847
  • assembly layouts, 499
    • master model technique, 504–505
    • modeling, 614–615
    • sketches, 500–504
  • assembly modeling versus multibody modeling, 872–873
  • Assembly Performance Evaluation, 532
  • assembly tree, history‐based/non‐history‐based portions, 428–429
  • AssemblyXpert, 532
  • associative links
    • base parts, 24
    • derived parts, 24
    • inserted parts, 24
  • associativity, 24
    • bidirectional, 24
  • asymmetric fillets, 232, 240–241
    • profiles, 241–242
  • asymmetrical chamfers, 254–255
  • Auto Insert Dimension tool, 86
  • Auto Relief feature, 956–957
  • Auto Trace, 196
  • Autodimension PropertyManager, 794–795
  • autodimensioning, 794–795
  • Automatic Relations setting, 90
  • Automatic Solve setting, 90–91
  • auto‐transitioning, 69
  • auxiliary views, 745
  • axes, 94
  • asymmetric fillets, profiles, 241–242

B

  • balloons, 771–772
    • magnetic lines, 771–772
  • Base Flange method, 949–950
    • Base Flange/Tab tool, 950–951
    • BaseBend features, 951
  • base parts
    • associative links, 24
    • configurations, 354–355
  • Baseline Dimension tool, 86
  • baseline dimensions, 793–794
  • Basic Motion, 669
    • chains, 698–700
    • contact, 696–697
    • gravity, 696–697
    • MotionManager, 670
    • motors, 697, 698–700
    • springs, 698–700
  • Belt/Chain mate, 470–471
  • Belt/Chain tool, 92
  • Bend Allowance feature, 953
    • bend calculation tables, 955–956
    • Bend Deduction, 954–955
    • bend tables, 953–954
    • K‐factor, 954
  • bend calculation tables, 951–953
  • Bend Radius feature, 953
  • BibleInchTemplate.prtdot template, 99
  • bidirectional assocativity, 24
  • Bill of Materials PropertyManager, 837
  • BIM (building information model), 667
  • black boxes, 878
  • Block menus, 779–780
  • Block PropertyManager, 775–776
  • blocks, 725–726
    • creating, 778
    • Design library, 775
    • editing, 779
    • exploding, 779
    • inserting, 775–778
    • rebuilding, 779
    • sketch relations
      • adding, 777
      • definition, 777
      • editing, 778
      • existing, 776
      • layers, 778
      • leaders, 778
      • lock angle, 778
      • parameters, 778
      • text/dimension display, 778
  • Blocks and Belts tutorial, 102–105
  • Blocks toolbar
    • Add/Remove tool, 92
    • Belt/Chain tool, 92
    • Edit Block tool, 92
    • Explode Block tool, 92
    • Insert Block tool, 92
    • Make Block tool, 92
    • Rebuild Block tool, 92
    • Save Block/Save Sketch As Block tool, 92
  • bodies
    • disjointed, connecting, 888
    • Feature Scope, 889–890
    • indents, 879–881
    • parasolids, 1051–1052
    • sharing, multibody modeling, 876–877
    • solid, patterns and, 293
    • surface, patterns and, 293
  • Body folders, 895–897
  • BOMs (Bills of Materials), 14
    • creating, manually, 821
    • default, 821
    • sample, 822
    • table‐based
      • appearance, 827
      • columns, 828
      • combining indented, 827–828
      • configurations, 824–825
      • dissolving indented, 827–828
      • editing, 826–829
      • Excel‐based, retiring, 829
      • indented lists, 827–828
      • item numbers, 826
      • Keep Missing Items, 825
      • numbering indented, 827–828
      • restructured indented, 827–828
      • rows, 828
      • table anchors, 823–824
      • templates, 822–823
      • types, 824
      • Zero Quantity Display, 826
    • tutorials, 837–840
  • Boolean operations, multibody modeling and, 875
  • Bottom Line
    • animation, 1145
    • annotations, 1147
    • assemblies
      • building, 1136–1137
      • configurations, 1142
      • drawings, 1150–1151
      • features, 1141–1142
      • sketches, 1139–1140
    • assemblies tools, 1140–1141
    • automation, 1145–1146
    • colors, 1149
    • dimensioning, 1148–1149
    • Direct Editing, 1161–1162
    • display states, 1142
    • drawing views, 1146–1147
    • drawings, 1129–1130, 1150
    • editing, 1135–1136, 1143–1144
    • equations, 1134
    • evaluating, 1135–1136, 1143–1144
    • Hole Wizard, 1141–1142
    • imported geometry, 1161–1162
    • interface navigation, 1127–1128
    • large scale design, 1144–1145
    • layers, 1149
    • layouts, 1139–1140
    • libraries, 1141–1142
    • line fonts, 1149
    • master modeling, 1153–1155
    • mates, 1137–1138
    • mirroring, 1133–1134, 1138–1139
    • modeling in context, 1143
    • Mold tools, 1165–1168
    • MotionManager, 1145
    • multibody modeling, 1151–1152
    • parts, 1129–1130
      • configurations, 1135
    • patterning, 1133–1134, 1138–1139
    • Plastic Features, 1162–1165
    • primary features, 1131–1132
    • reference geometry, 1129
    • secondary features, 1132–1133
    • sheet metal drawings, 1159–1160
    • sheet metal tools, 1155–1159
    • sketches, 1128–1131
    • surfaces, 1152–1153
    • symbols, 1147
    • tables, 1150
    • tolerancing, 1148–1149
    • troubleshooting, 1135–1136, 1143–1144
    • visualization, 1130
    • weldment drawings, 1160–1161
    • weldments, 1160–1161
  • bottom‐up assembly, 422
  • bottom‐up modeling, 605
  • Boundary feature, 223
    • lofts and, 224–225
    • profile arrangements, 225
  • Boundary Surface feature, 911–912
  • Boundary Surface PropertyManager, 912
  • bounding boxes, 872
  • bracket casting tutorial, 256–260
  • Break view, 743–745
  • bridges
    • multibody modeling and, 875
    • solids, multibody modeling, 887–888
  • Broken category, 23
  • Broken View PropertyManager, 745
  • Broken‐Out section view, 740–743, 858
    • closed loop, 858–859
    • closed loops, 741–742
    • depth, 743, 859
    • editing, 743, 860
    • properties, 860
    • Spline loop, 858–859
  • .btl documents, 11

C

  • CADKEY, 1049
  • calloutformat.txt documents, 11
  • Cam mate, 464–465
  • camera, paths, 688–690
  • Camera PropertyManager, 170, 171, 688–689
  • Cameras (DisplayManager), 157, 165–166, 170
    • adding cameras, 171
    • Camera view, switching to, 172
    • positioning cameras, 171
  • Cartoon tool, 152
  • center creation, 67
  • center marks, 780–781
    • patterns and, 781
  • Centerline tool, 70
  • centerlines, 201
    • dimensioning and, 189
  • center‐of‐gravity, calculation, parts, 872
  • centerpoint, 116
  • Centerpoint Arc tool, 68–69
  • Center‐Radius circle, 69
  • chain pattern, 492–494
  • chamfer dimensions, 87
  • Chamfer tool, Flip Direction option, 254–255
  • chamfers, 135–137, 253–254
    • in assemblies, 554–555
    • asymmetrical, 254–255
    • direct control, 254–255
    • indirect control, 254–255
    • switching to fillets, 255–256
  • change, predicting, 112–113
  • Change Display States tool, 153
  • Check Entity dialog box, 390
  • Check tool, 389–390
  • Circle PropertyManager, 67–68
  • Circle tool, 62
    • center creation, 67
    • perimeter creation, 68
      • Tangent to Three Entities, 68
      • Tangent to Two Entities, 68
  • circles, Center‐Radius, 69
  • Circular pattern, 299–300, 484
    • tutorial, 310–311
  • Circular Pattern PropertyManager, 289
  • circular references, 427, 503
  • Circular Sketch pattern, 288–289
  • Circular Sketch Pattern tool, 80
  • Clearance Verification, 520
  • closed contour sketches, 220
  • Closed Corner feature, 967–968
    • Break Corner, 969–970
    • Coplanar Faces, 969
    • Corner Trim, 969–970
    • Faces to Extend, 968
    • Faces to Match, 968
    • Gap, 968
    • Open Bend Region, 969
    • Overlap/Underlap Ratio, 968
  • closed‐loop sketches, 218
  • Coincident mates, point‐to‐point, 459–460
  • coincident sketch relation, 19
  • Collision Detection, 525–526
  • color
    • applying, 174
    • assembly drawings, 860–861
    • dimensions, driven, 792–793
    • interface, 47–48
    • lines, 198
    • tutorial, 208–211
  • Color PropertyManager, 176
  • Combine feature, 881–883
  • Combine PropertyManager, 882–883
  • CommandManager, 25–26
    • Annotations toolbar, 138
    • appearance, 29–30
    • Auto Collapse, 29
    • Customize mode, 27–28
    • docking, 28
    • Drawings toolbar, 138
    • Dual Monitors option, 36
    • Evaluate tab, 388
    • icons, 52
    • Instant2D, 83
    • limitations, 30
    • Sketch, 83
    • Sketch Ink toolbar, 97–98
    • Sketch toolbar, 64
    • tabs, 26, 27
      • document types and, 29
    • toolbars and, 29, 30
      • context toolbars, 32–33
      • flyouts, 32
      • Heads‐Up View, 31
      • Shortcut (S), 33–34
      • Title Bar, 31–32
    • Widescreen option, 36
  • Commands tab, 36
  • complex parts, simplifying, 886–887
  • complex shapes, multibody modeling, 877–878
  • Component Line Font dialog box, 812–813
  • component patterns, 432, 483
    • feature‐driven, 491
    • local, 484
      • Instances to Skip option, 485
      • pattern references, 484
      • Pattern Seed only, 486
    • tutorial, 495–497
  • components
    • Isolate tool, 653
    • LDR and, 660
    • mates, listing, 639
    • replacing, 647–649
    • selecting, 528–532
      • Advance Select options, 531
      • hidden components, 530
      • identical components, 530
      • internal components, 530
      • parts mated to others, 530
      • by size, 532
      • subassemblies, 530
      • suppressed components, 530
      • toolbox parts, 530
      • Volume Select, 529
    • virtual, 607–608
  • Components to Explode, 850–851
  • compositive curves, 266–267
  • Concentric mates, exploded views and, 850
  • Configuration Publisher, 364–366
  • ConfigurationManager, 26, 336–337
    • Display States interface, 163–164
  • configurations, 335
    • activating, 339–340
    • animation and, 671
    • color, 342
    • creating, 341–344
    • deleting, 337–338
    • derived, 347–348
    • descriptions, 341–342
    • dimension control, 350
    • dimension modification, 343
    • dimensions, negative, 344
    • display states and, 590
    • feature suppression, 342
    • file size, speed and, 348–350
    • library features, 355
    • mate suppression, 342
    • Modify Configurations dialog box, 344–346
    • options, 341–342
    • parts, 336
      • base, 354–355
      • derived, 354–355
      • inserted, 354–355
    • planes, 353–354
    • properties, 341–342, 346
      • custom, 346–347
  • controlling, 351–352
    • purging data, 349
    • rebuilding, 342–343
    • relations, controlling, 352–353
    • saving data, 349
    • sorting
      • alphabetization, 338
      • naming configs, 338–339
    • suppression control, 350–351
    • Table Views, 345
    • tutorials, 365–368
    • Confirmation Corner, 26, 63
    • Conic radius fillet, 242
    • Conic rho fillet, 242
    • conics, 77–78
    • Constant Pitch helix, 262
    • constant‐size fillet, 232
      • creating, 233–234
    • constant‐width fillets, 249–250
    • construction geometry, 72, 201
    • Construction Geometry tool, 75
    • construction lines, 70, 201
    • consumed features, Rollback Bar and, 372
    • context bar, 26, 63
    • context toolbars, 32–33
    • contexts, multiple, 606
    • continuous curvature fillets, 242–243, 249
    • contour selection, 121–122
      • Revolve feature, 223
    • Convert Entities tool, 72, 262
      • Offset Entities command, 72–73
    • coordinate systems, 94–96
      • reference geometry and, 93
    • Coordinate triad, 26
    • Copy Appearance tool, 152
    • Copy Entities tool, 191
    • Copy tool, 76
    • core features, 1109
    • Corner Rectangle tool, 66
    • Corner Relief feature, 970–971
    • cosmetic patterns, 307–308
      • tutorial, 313–314
    • Crop Views, 740
    • cursors
      • changing, 38
      • sketch cursor, 38
    • curvature
      • continuous, fillets, 249
      • Gaussian curvature, 909
      • tangents, 919
      • Zebra Stripes tool, 153–154
    • Curve Through Reference Points feature, 266
    • Curve Through XYZ Points feature, 265–266
    • Curved Slot tool, 82
    • Curve‐Driven pattern, 300–302
    • curves, 261
      • composite, 266–267
      • conics, 77–78
      • Convert Entities tool, 262
      • ellipses, 77
      • equation driven, 267
      • Helix, 262
      • lighting, 170
      • parabola, 77
      • projected, 264
        • sketch on face, 265
        • sketch on sketch, 265
      • Projected, 262
      • sweeps, 227–228
    • Curves toolbar, 262
    • custom drafting standards, 706–707
    • Custom Properties tab, 347
    • custom units, 26
    • customization
      • interface
        • hotkeys and, 49–52
        • icons, 52
        • saving settings, 54–55
      • mouse gestures, 51
    • Customize dialog box, 36
    • Customize Menu, 37
    • cut‐lists
      • items, 872
      • properties, 872
    • cuts, multibody modeling, 876

D

  • daisy chaining, 427, 503
  • Dangling category, 22
  • dangling sketches, 20
  • data import, 1049–1050
  • Data Migration tab, 1050–1051
  • data transfer, IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) file type, 667–668
  • Deboss feature, 272–273
  • Decals (DisplayManager), 157, 165
  • Default Templates option, 14
  • Defeature, 533–534
  • Defined in Context category, 23
  • Deform feature, 275–277
  • degenerate geometry, 908
  • degree of freedom, 459–460
  • Delete Body command, 872
  • derived configurations, 347–348
  • derived parts
    • associative links, 24
    • configurations, 354–355
  • derived sketches, 193
  • design
    • assemblies
      • base parts, 416–417
      • bottom‐up with mates, 416–417
      • bottom‐up with skeleton, 418
      • in‐context design, 418
      • mates, 416–417
    • documents
      • .sldasm, 10
      • .slddrw, 10
      • .sldprt, 10
    • intent, 19
    • top‐down, 185
  • design intent, 20, 111–112
    • change prediction, 112–113
    • editing
      • Display/Delete Relations tool, 22–23
      • sketch relations, 22
    • functional features, 112
    • primary features, 112
    • symmetry, 112
  • Design Library, 537–543
    • annotations, 541
    • blocks, 775
    • display modes, 546
    • folder location, 542
    • library parts, 542–543
    • Task pane, 538
    • thumbnail size, 546–548
  • design tables, 355–356, 830–832
    • assembly configurations, 599
    • creating, 357–362
    • dimensions, suppressed, 356
    • editing, 364
    • items driven by, 356–357
    • planes, configuration, 356
    • relations, suppressed, 356
    • settings, editing, 362–363
    • tutorials, 365–368
  • design trees
    • FeatureManager, 18
    • MotionManager, 671
  • Detach Segment on Drag setting, 91
  • detached drawings, assembly drawings and, 863
  • Detached PropertyManager, 26
  • Detail View
    • activated drawing views, 734–735
    • detail circles, 735
    • editing, 735–736
    • Locked Focus, 735
  • developable surfaces, 908
  • devices, 52–53
    • touchscreen support, 53–54
  • dialog boxes
    • Add Relations, 71
    • Check Entity, 390
    • Component Line Font, 812–813
    • Dimension, 329
    • Equation Export, 330
    • Equations, 317–318, 322
    • External References, 937
    • Grid Components, 666–667
    • Keyboard, 50–51
    • Layers, 811
    • Link to Property, 847
    • Modify, 343
    • Modify Configurations, 344–346
    • Modify Sketch, 191–192
    • New SolidWorks Document, 8, 99
    • Open, 56
    • Page Setup, 792–793
    • Save As, 646
    • Save As with References, 646
    • Sheet Properties, 137, 846–847
    • SketchXpert, 188
    • Specify Configurations, 343
    • Summary Information, 711
    • Systems Options Colors, 47–48
    • View Orientation, 154–156
    • Welcome to SolidWorks, 7
  • Dimension dialog boxes, 329
  • Dimension palette, 798–799
    • alignment and, 803–804
  • Dimension PropertyManager, 84, 318–319, 791
    • Angle option, 84–85
    • Arc Length option, 85
    • Diameter option, 84
    • Dimension palette, 798–799
    • Dimension Text, 795–796
    • display options, 796–797
    • Primary Value Override, 796
    • Radial option, 84
  • Dimension Text panel, 795–796
  • dimensions. See also Smart Dimension tool
    • 3D sketches, 204
      • weldments and, 1021–1022
    • alignment, 802–803
      • automatic, 804
      • grid snapping, 803
      • inference, 803
    • animation and, 671
    • arranging automatically, 804
    • assembly features, 845–846
    • baseline, 86
    • break lines, 798
    • centerlines and, 189
    • chamfer, 87
    • controlling with configurations, 350
    • design tables, 356
    • dimension text, 795–796
    • direct, 124–125
    • display options, 796–797
    • driven, 787–788
      • color, 792–793
      • equations, 323–325
    • equations
      • driven, 323–325
      • Modify dimension box, 327–328
    • formatting, 798–799
    • horizontal, 86
    • inserting automatically, 86
    • Instant2D, 83
    • layers, 811
    • library features, 550
    • Model Items PropertyManager, 788–790
    • modification, 343
    • naming, equations, 318–320
    • negative, 344
    • numeric input, 189
    • ordinate, 86–87
    • parts, 322
    • placing, Insert Model Items, 787–788
    • primary value override, 796
    • Rapid Dimension manipulator wheel, 791
    • reference dimensions, 790–791
      • Annotation views, 792
      • autodimensioning, 794–795
      • baseline, 793–794
      • DimXpert and, 791–792
      • ordinate, 793–794
      • reference sketches, 795
    • styles, 802
    • symbols and, 779
    • thickness, 218
    • tolerances, 799–800
      • Fit tolerances, 800
      • Geometric Tolerancing symbols, 801–802
      • precision values, 801
      • tutorials, 805–808
    • tutorials, 805–808
    • vertical, 86
    • witness lines, 798
  • Dimensions/Relations toolbar
    • Add Relations tool, 89
    • Auto Insert Dimension tool, 86
    • Baseline Dimension tool, 86
    • Horizontal Dimension tool, 86
    • Isolate Changed Dimensions tool, 89
    • Ordinate Dimension tool, 86
    • Scan Equal tool, 89
    • Smart Dimension tool, 86
    • Vertical Dimension tool, 86
  • DimXpert Manager, 26
    • reference dimensions and, 791–792
  • direct dimensions, 124–125
  • Direct Editing tools, 1060–1063
    • history and, 1064–1067
    • Move Face feature, 1063–1064
  • Display pane, 26, 173
  • display states, 590–592
    • configurations and, 590
    • drawings and, 592
    • parts, 592
  • Display States, appearances, 163
  • display tools, 816–818
  • Display Warnings option, 186
  • Display/Delete Relations dialog box
    • All in this Sketch, 185
    • Dangling, 185
    • Defined in Context, 185
    • External, 185
    • Locked (Broken), 185
    • Overdefining/Notsolved, 185
    • Selected Entities, 185
  • Display/Delete Relations Property Manager, 23, 184, 205
  • Display/Delete Relations tool, 22–23
    • Quick Snaps flyout, 72
  • DisplayManager, 26, 45, 129
    • Appearances, 157
    • Cameras, 157, 165–166, 170–173
    • Decals, 157, 165
    • Lights, 157, 165–166, 169–170
    • RealView, 173
    • Scenes, 157, 165–169
    • Task pane
      • Appearances, Scenes, and Decals, 43
      • Custom Properties, 43
      • Design Library, 43
      • File Explorer, 43
      • Home tab, 43
      • Recovered Documents, 43
      • SolidWorks Forum, 43
      • View Palette, 43
    • walk‐throughs, 662
  • Document origin, 26
  • Document Properties dialog box, 14
  • Document Property setting, 14
  • documents
    • assemblies, 8
    • .btl, 11
    • calloutformat.txt, 11
    • design
      • .sldasm, 10
      • .slddrw, 10
      • .sldprt, 10
    • drawings, 8
    • driving assembly properties, 846–847
    • library files
      • .sldblk, 10
      • .sldlfp, 10
    • multiple windows, 55
    • new, 8–9
    • open, cycling through, 56
    • parts, 8
    • recent, 56–58
    • Recent, 56–58
    • .sldclr, 11
    • .sldmat, 11
    • .sldreg, 11
    • .sldstd, 11
    • styles
      • .sldgtolfvt, 10
      • .sldsffvt, 10
      • .sldweldfvt, 10
    • .swb, 11
    • .swp, 11
    • symbol files
      • gtol.sym, 11
      • swlines.lin, 11
    • templates and formats
      • .asmdot, 10
      • .asmprp, 10
      • .drwdot, 10
      • .drwprp, 10
      • journal.doc, 10
      • .prtdot, 10
      • .prtprp, 10
      • .sldbombt, 10
      • .slddrt, 10
      • .sldholtbt, 10
      • .sldrevtbt, 10
      • .sldtbt, 10
      • .sldwldtbt, 10
      • .xls, 10
  • Dome feature, 269–271
  • double hold‐line fillets, 249
  • doubly nested contour sketches, 220
  • Draft, Undercut, and Parting Line Analysis tool, 152
  • Draft Analysis tool
    • Basic, 1094
    • Face Classification, 1096–1097
    • Gradual Transition, 1095–1096
    • steep faces, 1097
    • workflow, 1098
  • Draft feature, 1083–1084
    • draft limitations, 1086
    • DraftXpert, 1087
    • failure, 1086–1087
    • Neutral Plane draft, 1084
    • Parting Lane draft, 1084–1985
    • Step draft, 1085–1086
  • Draft Quality views, 865–866
  • Drafting Standard setting, 9
  • drafting standards
    • custom, 706–707
    • templates, 8
  • DraftSight, 809
  • dragging entities, 192, 516–517
    • Along Assembly XYZ, 517
    • Along Entity, 517
    • By Delta XYZ, 517–518
    • Use For Positioning Only Option, 513–514
  • Drawing View PropertyManager, 138
  • drawings, 8
    • blocks, 725–726
    • creating, 128
    • display states and, 592
    • drafting standards, 706–707
    • FeatureManager, 862
    • formats, 705–707
      • creating, 707–720
      • editing, 708–709
      • files, 716–717
      • maintaining, 706
      • properties, 710–715
      • saving, 717–718
      • second sheet, 718–720
      • Sheet Format tools, 707
      • sheet formats, 705
      • templates, 705
      • text, 710
      • text boxes, 709–710
      • title blocks, 715
    • Hole Wizard, 132–133
    • saving, as detached, 862
    • sheet metal drawings, 1005–1006
    • Sheet Properties dialog box, 137
    • sketch techniques, 130–132
    • SpeedPak and, 433
    • tabulated, 830–832
    • templates, 128, 705–706
      • blocks in, 724–725
      • maintaining, 706
      • predefined views, 720–724
      • properties, 725
      • saving, 725
      • styles in, 724–725
    • tutorial, 137–141
  • Drawings toolbar, 138
    • Alternate Position, 849–850
  • driven dimensions, 787–788
    • color, 792–793
  • drop‐down menus, 37
  • DRV (Dynamic Reference Visualization), 40, 372
  • DWG/DXF, saving views to, 748
  • Dynamic Assembly Motion, 459
  • Dynamic Clearance, 523–525
  • Dynamic Mirror command, 80, 290
  • dynamic motion, 672
    • assemblies, 872

E

  • Edge Flange feature
    • Angle panel, 961
    • curved edges, 962–963
    • default radius, 960
    • Edit Flange Profile button, 959–960
    • Flange Length, 961
    • Flange Position, 962
    • Gap Distance, 960–961
    • Trim Side Bends, 962
  • edges, 174
    • filleting, 187
    • hiding/showing, 815–816
    • sharp, 196
    • tangent, 754–756
  • Edit Appearance tool, 152
  • Edit Block tool, 92
  • Edit Scene PropertyManager, 145
  • editing. See also Direct Editing tools
    • Broken‐Out section view, 743
    • Detail Views, 735–736
    • formats, 708–709
    • mates, 642–645
      • existing, 471–473
    • Section Views, 739
    • Smart Components, 575–576
    • tutorials, 406–412
  • ellipse, 77
  • ellipsis button (…), 728
  • Emboss feature, 272
  • Emboss PropertyManager, 272
  • empty views, 747
  • Enable On‐Screen Numeric Input, 65
  • Enable Snapping setting, 91
  • end conditions
    • Extrude feature, 221
    • Revolve feature, 222
  • entities
    • deleting, relations and, 184
    • dragging, 192
    • fillets and, 236
    • in lofts, 226
    • Mated Entities, 642
    • moving, 190
    • pasting, 192
    • reference entities, 462
    • replacing, 186–187
    • rotating, 190
    • scaling, 191
  • envelopes, 560–562
  • Equal sketch relation, 116
  • Equation Driven Curve PropertyManager, 82
  • Equation Driven Curve tool, 81–82
  • equation driven curves, 267
  • Equation Editor, 327
  • Equation Export dialog box, 330
  • equations, 317
    • building, 320–322
    • comments, 323
    • creation, 318–323
    • dimensions
      • driven dimensions, 323–325
      • Modify dimension box, 327–328
      • naming, 318–320
    • expressions, Dimension dialog boxes, 329
    • external
      • assemblies, 424
      • linking to, 330
    • IF statements, 325–326
    • tutorial, 330–332
    • variables, global, 326–327, 424
  • Equations dialog box, 317–318, 322
  • Equations interface, 317
    • Dimension View, 318
    • Equation View, 318
    • Ordered View, 318
    • Sketch Equation View, 318
  • errors versus warnings, 638
  • Evaluate tab, 388
  • evaluation techniques, 387–388
    • Check tool, 389–390
    • geometry
      • Curvature Comb, 395–396
      • curvature display, 391, 392
      • Deviation Analysis, 391–393
      • Geometry Analysis tool, 394–395
      • Performance Evaluation tool, 395
      • RealView, 391
      • Tangent Edges as Phantom settings, 393–394
      • Zebra stripes, 390–391
    • tutorials, 406–412
    • Verification on Rebuild, 388–389
  • Excel tables versus SolidWorks, 821–822
  • Explode Animation Wizard, 677–678
  • Explode Block tool, 92
  • Explode command, 851–852
  • Explode Directions box, 850–851
  • explode lines, 853
  • Exploded View, 670, 854–855
  • exploded views
    • animation, 677–678
    • assemblies, 850–854
  • expression equations, Dimension dialog boxes, 329
  • Extend Surface tool, 916–917
  • Extend tool, 79, 909
  • External category, 23
  • external equations, linking to, 330
  • External References dialog box, 937
  • Extrude feature, 113, 116, 217–218
    • from 3D sketches, 220
    • end conditions, 221
      • Blind, 118
      • Offset from Surface, 118–119
      • Through All, 120
      • Up to Next, 120
      • Up to Surface, 118
      • Up to Vertex, 118
    • from selection, 116–118
    • Thin Feature panel, 120–121
    • workflow, 219
  • Extrude PropertyManager, 120–121, 876
  • Extrude tool, 909–910
  • Extruded Boss feature, 218
  • Extruded Cut tool, 129
  • Extruded Surface PropertyManager, 909–910
  • extruded surfaces, 909–910
  • extruding, loops, multibody modeling, 875

F

  • Face Curves tool, 79, 908
  • Face fillets, 232, 246–247
  • FEA (Finite Element Analysis), 347–348
  • Feature Scope, 889–890
  • Feature toolbar, Extruded Cut, 129
  • feature‐based modeling, 15–16
  • feature‐driven component patterns, 491
  • FeatureManager, 15, 26, 38
    • Annotations folder, 156
    • assemblies, 126
    • design trees, 18
    • detachable, 380–381
    • Display pane, 173
    • displaying, 381
    • DRV (Dynamic Reference Visualization) and, 40
    • flyout, 44, 380–381
    • folders, 42
    • interface
      • Appearances, 39
      • collapse tab, 39
      • ConfigurationManager, 39
      • DimXpertManager, 39
      • Display Mode, 39
      • Display pane, 40
      • Display Pane Splitter, 39
      • DisplayManager, 39
      • Feature folder, 39
      • FeatureManager Filter, 39, 41
      • FeatureManager panel splitter bar, 39
      • features, 39
      • Freeze Bar, 39
      • Freeze bars, 40–41
      • Hide/Show, 39
      • Metadata folders, 39
      • PropertyManager, 39
      • Reference Geometry, 39
      • Rollback bar, 40–41
      • Rollback Bar, 39
      • splitter bar, 40
      • Transparency, 39
    • Material folder, 159–160
    • parts, new, 62
    • Pen Sketch entry, 98
    • PropertyManager split screen, 40
    • Sensors, 199–200
    • sketch pictures, 81
    • split, 44
    • symbols, 651–652
    • tabs, 26
    • toggling, 36
    • tutorial, 446–447
  • FeatureManager Filter, dimension names, 320
  • features
    • assemblies, applying, 430–431
    • mates and, 639–640
    • ordering, 378–379
    • reordering, 883
  • file management
    • Pack and Go, 645, 646–647
    • PDM (product data management), 645
    • Replace Components tool, 647–649
    • Save As tool, 645
    • Save Copy tool, 645
    • Save tool, 645
  • files
    • configurations, speed, 348–350
    • DWG/DXF, 716–717
    • searching for, 47
    • Smart Components, 574–575
  • Fill pattern, 303–304
  • Fill Surface tool, 918–920
  • Fill tool, 909
  • Fillet Bead tool, 558–560
  • Fillet feature, 231
  • Fillet PropertyManager, 135, 232–233
    • Keep Edge/Keep Surface toggle, 239
    • Keep Feature, 239–240
    • Multiple Radius Fillet option, 238
    • Round Corners option, 239
    • Selection toolbar, 236
    • Variable Radius Parameters panel, 244
  • Fillet tool, 909
  • fillets, 70, 135–137, 231
    • in assemblies, 554–555
    • asymmetric, 240–242
    • constant‐size, 232
      • creating, 233–234
    • constant‐width, 249–250
    • continuous curvature, 242–243, 249
    • double hold‐line, 249
    • edges, 187
    • entity selection, 236
    • Face, 232, 246–247
      • Help Point, 247
    • folders, 237
    • full round, 232, 250–251
    • hold line, 267
    • large number, 236
    • multiple sizes, 238–239
    • patterning, 295
    • preview, 236–237
    • setback, 232
    • setback with variable radius, 232
    • single hold‐line, 247–249
    • switching to chamfers, 255–256
    • symmetric, 240–242
    • Tangent Propagation option, 235
    • variable‐radius
      • transitions, 245
      • uses, 245
      • values, 243–245
    • variable‐size, 232
  • FilletXpert, 236
  • FilletXpert PropertyManager, 236
  • filters
    • FeatureManager, 41
    • MotionManager, 671
  • Fit Text Button, 767
  • Fit tolerances, 800
  • fixtures, 845–846
  • Flat Pattern feature, 957
    • Convert Entities, 958
    • Corner Treatment option, 958
    • Fixed Face parameter, 958
    • suppressed, 957
  • Flex feature, 273–275
    • multibody modeling, 883–884
  • flexibility, parts, 682
  • Flip Direction option, chamfers, 254–255
  • floors
    • orientation, 145
    • position, 145
  • Flyout FeatureManager, 177
  • flyouts, 32, 35–36
    • FeatureManager, 44
    • Quick Snaps, 72
  • folders
    • assemblies, 438–439
      • creating, 439–440
    • Assembly Drawings, 847
    • Design Library, 542
    • FeatureManager, 42
    • libraries, adding, 550
    • Mates, 637–638
    • naming, 380
    • ordering, 379–380
  • fonts
    • notes, 772–773
    • OLF SimpleSansOC, 766
    • stick fonts, 196
    • TrueType fonts, 196–197
  • footprints, 974
  • Format Painter, 774
  • formats, 705, 707
    • editing, 708–709
    • files, DWG/DXF, 716–717
    • Format Painter, 774
    • maintaining, 706
    • properties, 710–711
      • custom data, 711
      • Custom Properties tab, 711–712
      • error display, 713–714
      • link variables, 713–714
      • linked, 714–715
      • links, 712–713
      • Summary Information dialog box, 711
    • saving, 717–718
    • second sheet
      • adding sheets, 718–719
      • reloading formats, 719–720
    • Sheet Format tools, 707
    • sheet formats, 705
      • layers, 810–811
    • templates, 705
      • assembly drawings, 847–848
    • text, image placement, 710
    • text boxes, 709–710
    • title blocks, 715
  • Formatting toolbar, 766
  • Free Drag, 516–617
  • free motion, 672
  • full round fillet, 232, 250–251
  • Fully Define Sketch tool, 87–88, 287, 795
  • fully defined sketches, 20
  • functional features, 112

G

  • gauge tables, 951–953
  • Gaussian curvature, 909
  • Gear mate, 466
  • general tables, 836
  • Geometric Tolerancing symbols, 801–802
  • geometry. See also imported geometry
    • appearance overrides and, 590–591
    • calculators, 212–214
    • construction geometry, 72, 201
    • degenerate, 908
    • multibody modeling and, 875
    • parts, 608
    • reference geometry, 62, 93
      • assemblies, 428
  • geometry evaluation
    • Curvature Comb, 395–396
    • curvature display, 391, 392
    • Deviation Analysis, 391–393
    • Geometry Analysis tool, 394–395
    • Performance Evaluation tool, 395
    • RealView, 391
    • Tangent Edges as Phantom settings, 393–394
    • Zebra stripes, 390–391
  • Geometry Pattern, 284–286, 292–293
  • Gestures donut, 26
  • ghost graphics, 865
  • ghosts, 432–433
  • global shape modeling, 275–277
  • global variables, 326–327, 424
  • graphics, ghost graphics, 865
  • graphics window
    • scrollbars, 147–148
    • splitters, 147–148
  • grid, 63
  • Grid Components dialog box, 666–667
  • grid snapping, 803
  • Grid/Snap tool, 77
  • GridSystem, 663–664
    • Grid Components dialog box, 666–667
    • output, 665–666
    • sketches, 664–665
  • GridSystem PropertyManager, 665

H

  • Heads‐Up View toolbar, 26, 31, 143–144
  • Helix curve, 262
    • Constant Pitch, 262
    • pitch, 262
    • taper, spirals, 264
    • Variable Pitch, 262
    • workflow, 264
  • Helix PropertyManager, Taper Helix panel, 262
  • Helix/Spiral PropertyManager, 263
  • Help
  • Help menu
    • Activation options, 6–7
    • What's New, 7–8
  • Help Point, Face fillets, 247, 248
  • Hem feature, 964–965
  • Hidden Lines Removed (HLR), 151, 811
  • Hidden Lines Visible (HLV), 151, 811
  • Hide All Types tool, 153
  • Hinge mate, 470
  • history‐based modeling, 16–18
  • hold lines
    • fillets and, 247–249
    • split lines and, 267
  • Hole Alignment tool, 534–535
  • Hole Series interface, 556–558
  • hole tables, 832–834
    • tutorials, 840–842
  • Hole Wizard, 19, 132–133, 555–558, 832–834
  • Horizontal Dimension tool, 86
  • horizontal modeling, 386
  • hotkeys
    • customization and, 49–52
    • Keyboard dialog box, 50–51
    • macros and, 54
  • hybrid modeling, 907–908
  • hyperlinks, text, 775

I

  • IAI (International Alliance for Interoperability), 667
  • icons, 52
    • CommandManager, 52
  • IF statement
    • in equations, 325–326
    • suppression states, 329
  • IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) file type, 667–668
  • IGES (Initial Graphics Exchange Specification), 1049
  • image placement, text and, 710
  • imported geometry, 1049–1051
    • 3D Interconnect, 1051–1052
    • data
      • cloud point, converting, 1060
      • ensuring good, 1059–1060
    • errors, 1057
      • manual repair, 1058–1059
      • repairing, 1057–1058
    • Import Diagnostics, 1058
    • import results, 1052
    • imports, data imports, 1052–1057
    • tasks, 1050–1051
    • tutorial, 1067–1068
  • in‐context design, 419
  • in‐context modeling, 608–609
    • advantages, 613
    • assembly layout modeling, 614–615
    • best practices, 623–624
    • configurations and, 625–626
    • design intent, 630
    • Edit Component button, 618–620
    • external references, 620–623, 630
      • mirror parts, 631
      • split parts and, 631
    • file management and, 627
    • instances, multiple, 627
    • layouts, 628
    • in libraries, 629
    • mates and, 627
    • versus mating, 630
    • motion and, 626–627
    • multibody modeling, 614
    • multiple contexts, 624–625
    • parts
      • color, 617–618
      • transparency, 617–618
    • problems, 613–614
    • process
      • InPlace mate, 616
      • relations, 617
      • starting, 615–616
    • references, 611–613
      • circular, 627–628
    • relations, removing, 629–630
    • skeletons, 628
    • text color, 617
    • tutorial, 631–635
    • virtual components, 607–608
  • in‐context references, editing driving part, 611–613
  • in‐context relations, 427
  • Indent feature, 277–279, 879–881, 1087–1088
  • Indent PropertyManager, 880–881
  • inferencing, 89–90
    • alignment, 803
  • inflection point, 71
  • in‐place modeling, 605
    • update holders, 606
  • Input Dimension Value function, 66
  • Insert Block tool, 92
  • Insert Component PropertyManager, 561
  • Insert Into New Part tool, 934, 938
  • Insert Line option
    • Angle option, 66
    • Horizontal option, 65
    • Infinite Length option, 66
    • Vertical option, 65
  • Insert menu, 37
  • Insert Model Items, 787–788
  • Insert Part feature, 892–893
  • Insert Part PropertyManager, 893, 935
  • Insert Part tool, 934, 935–937
  • inserted parts
    • associative links, 24
    • configurations, 354–355
  • installation, 3
    • reinstallation, 11
  • Installation Manager, 5
  • Instant 2D, 83
  • Instant 3D, 122–123, 221
  • interfaces
    • Advanced, 12
    • Application window controls, 26
    • background options, 48–49
    • color, 47–48
    • CommandManager, 25–26
    • ConfigurationManager, 26
    • Confirmation corner, 26
    • context bar, 26
    • Coordinate triad, 26
    • custom units, 26
    • customization
      • hotkeys and, 49–52
      • icons, 52
      • saving settings, 54–55
    • Detached PropertyManager, 26
    • Dimension Properties, 84–85
    • DimXpert Manager, 26
    • Display pane, 26
    • DisplayManager, 26
    • Document origin, 26
    • Dual Monitors, 36
    • Equations, 317–318
    • FeatureManager, 26
      • Appearances, 39
      • collapse tab, 39
      • ConfigurationManager, 39
      • DimXpertManager, 39
      • Display Mode, 39
      • Display pane, 40
      • Display Pane Splitter, 39
      • DisplayManager, 39
      • Feature folder, 39
      • FeatureManager Filter, 39, 41
      • FeatureManager panel splitter bar, 39
      • features, 39
      • Freeze Bar, 39
      • Freeze bars, 40–41
      • Hide/Show, 39
      • Metadata folders, 39
      • PropertyManager, 39
      • Reference Geometry, 39
      • Rollback bar, 40–41
      • Rollback Bar, 39
      • splitter bar, 40
      • tabs, 26
      • Transparency, 39
    • Full Screen mode, 36
    • Gestures donut, 26
    • Heads Up View Toolbar, 26
    • Hole Series, 556–558
    • library features, 538
    • Mode tabs, 26
    • Novice, 12
    • Offset Entities, 72
    • PropertyManager, 26
    • RMB menu, 26
    • Rollback bar, 26
    • "S" menu, 26
    • Selection breadcrumb, 26
    • SolidWorks login, 26
    • tags, 26
    • Task bar, 26
    • task pane, 26
    • Title Bar, 26
    • Title Bar menu, 26
    • Title Bar Toolbar, 26
    • Touch Mode, 32
    • Trim, 73
    • View indicator, 26
    • Widescreen, 36
    • Window expander, 26
  • Interference Detection, 521
    • Component View, 522
    • ignoring interference, 522
    • results display, 522
  • interpolated features
  • Intersect feature, 279
  • Intersect tool, 923–924
  • Intersection Curve tool, 78
  • Inventor, 1049
  • ISO standards, 8
  • Isolate Changed Dimensions, 89
  • Isolate tool, 653
  • Isometric view, 138
  • isoparameter lines, 908

J

  • Jog feature, 965–966
    • Fixed Face, 965–966
    • Fixed Projected Length, 966–967
    • Jog Angle, 967
    • Jog Offset, 966
    • Jog Position, 967
  • Jogged Leader icon, 771
  • jogged leaders in notes, 771

K

  • keyboard
    • Alt‐key combinations, 51–52
    • arrow keys, 144
  • Keyboard dialog box, 50–51
  • kinematic motion, 672
  • Knit function, 906
  • Knit Surface tool, 915

L

  • large assemblies, LDR (Large Design Review), 657–659
    • Snapshots, 660–661
    • updating, 660
  • Layer toolbar, 811
  • layers
    • 2D data, imported, 809–810
    • components
      • assembly colors, 811–812
      • assembly parts, 812–813
    • dimensions, 811
    • notes, 811
    • sheet formats, 810–811
    • views, 752–753
  • Layers dialog box, 811
  • Layout feature, 499, 504
    • 3D sketches, 505
    • advantages, 507
    • limitations, 507
    • virtual components, 506
    • workflow, 505–506
  • layout sketches, assemblies, 426–427
  • layouts, 499
    • assembly layouts, 499, 500
      • daisy chaining, 503
      • master model technique, 504–505
      • workflow, 501
    • tutorial, 507–512
  • LDR (Large Design Review), 657–659
    • components, 660
    • Snapshots and, 660–661
    • updating, 660
  • leaders, notes
  • Learn tab (Welcome dialog), 7
  • Library Feature PropertyManager, 540
  • library features, 537–543
    • assemblies, 543
    • configurations, 355
    • creating, 543–544
      • from parts, 548–550
    • dimensions, 550
    • folders, adding, 550
    • interface, 538
    • limitations, 544
    • routing, 543
    • saving, 545–546
    • Task pane, 538
    • thumbnail display, 546–548
    • tutorials, 579–586
  • library file documents
    • .sldblk, 10
    • .sldlfp, 10
  • library parts, reusing, 872
  • license agreement, 6
  • lighting, 169–170
  • Lights (DisplayManager), 157, 165–166, 169–170
  • lightweight drawings, assembly drawings and, 863
  • limit mates, 466–468
  • line font, 813
  • line format, 813
    • color display mode, 815
    • end cap style, 814
    • Line Format settings, 814
    • line style, 815
    • line thickeness, 814–815
  • Line Format toolbar, 813–815
  • Line Style tool, 198–199
  • Line Thickness tool, 198–199
  • Line tool, 62, 65
  • Linear Coupler mate, 470
  • Linear Note Pattern PropertyManager, 767–769
  • Linear pattern
    • instances, 296
      • increments, 298–299
      • modified, 299
      • skipping, 297
      • varying, 298
    • spacing, 296
    • Vary Sketch option, 297
    • visual properties, 297
  • Linear Pattern PropertyManager, 288
  • Linear Sketch pattern, 287–288
  • Linear Sketch Pattern tool, 80
  • lines
    • color, 198
    • construction lines, 70
    • creating, 65–66
    • explode lines, 853
    • isoparameter lines, 908
    • split lines, 267
    • style, 198–199
    • thickness, 198–199
  • Link to Property dialog box, 847
  • linking
    • to external equations, 330
    • notes to custom properties, 847
    • properties, 712–715
      • notes, 774–775
    • variables, 713–714
  • local component patterns, 484
    • Instances to Skip option, 485
    • pattern references, 484
    • Pattern Seed only, 486
  • local operations, multibody modeling
    • Flex feature, 883–884
    • Shell feature, 884–885
  • Locked category, 23
  • Locked mates, 516
  • Loft feature, 223
    • Boundary comparison, 224–225
    • interpolation and, 223
    • spline comparison, 226–227
    • transitions, 224
  • Loft PropertyManager, 226
  • Loft tool, 909
  • lofts, entities in, 226
  • loops, extruding, multiple, 875

M

  • machined parts, 113
  • macros
    • hotkey access, 54
    • mates and, 458
  • magnetic lines, balloon alignment, 771–772
  • Magnifying Glass, 148
  • Make Block tool, 92
  • Make Path function, 80
  • master model, 421–422, 933
    • child relationships, 933–934
    • Insert Into New Part tool, 934
    • Insert Part tool, 934
    • parent relationships, 933–934
    • Pull functions, 934–935
      • Insert Into New Part feature, 938
      • Insert Part feature, 935–937
    • Push functions, 934–935, 938–939
      • Save Bodies feature, 940–941
      • Split feature, 939–940
    • Save Bodies tool, 934
    • Split tool, 934
    • tutorials, techniques, 941–945
  • Master Model workflow, 878
  • master models, 504
  • Mate Controller, 670, 700–702
  • Mate PropertyManager, 450, 513, 642–645
    • Copy with Mates, 457–458
    • editing mates, 642–645
    • faces, hiding, 452–453
    • macros, 458
    • Multiple Mate mode, 453–454
    • Select Other command, 452
    • workflow, 450–451
  • Mated Entities PropertyManager, 642, 644
  • Material folder (FeatureManager), 159–160
  • materials
    • adding, 113
    • editing, 159–160
    • removing, 113
  • mates, 127–128
    • Advanced and Mechanical, 462
    • animation, 682–683
    • applying, 449–450
    • assemblies, Mates folder, 638
    • Belt/Chain mate, 470–471
    • best practices, 475–476
    • Cam mate, 464–465
    • Coincident, point‐to‐point, 459–460
    • Component Preview window, 457
    • Copy with Mates, 457–458
    • displaying, without features, 639–640
    • editing, 642–645
      • existing, 471–473
    • faces, hiding, 452–453
    • Gear mate, 466
    • Hinge mate, 470
    • limit mates, 466–468
    • Linear Coupler mate, 470
    • listing, components, 639
    • Locked, 516
    • macros and, 458
    • models, position, 451
    • Multiple Mate mode, 453–454
    • options, 474–475
    • organization, 429–430
    • Path mate, 468–469
    • Peg‐in‐Hole mate, 455
    • Profile Center mate, 463
    • Rack and Pinion mate, 466
    • references, 93
    • Replace Mate Entities tool, 642, 644
    • Screw mate, 468
    • Select Other command, 452
    • SmartMates, 454
      • alt+dragging, 454–456
      • dragging between windows, 456
      • mate references, 456
    • subassemblies, 650–651
    • Symmetric mate, 463–464
    • troubleshooting, 473
    • tutorials, 477–480
    • View Mates tool, 640
    • views, 451
    • Width mate, 465
    • workflow, 450–451
  • Mates folder, 637–638
  • MateXpert, 638, 641–642
  • MBD (Model‐Based Definition), 125
  • menus
    • Customize Menu, 37
    • drop‐down, 37
    • Insert, 37
    • shortcut menus, 38
    • Tools, 37
    • View, 37
    • Window
      • Arrange Icons option, 58
      • Cascade option, 58
      • Close All option, 58
      • New Window option, 58
      • Tile Horizontally option, 58
      • Tile Vertically option, 58
  • Merge Result option, 876
    • Feature Scope and, 889–890
  • meshes, Face Curves tool, 908
  • metadata, 200–201
    • tutorial, 211–212
  • MidSurface PropertyManager, 921
  • MidSurface tool, 920–921
  • Mirror Components tool, 486–488
    • opposite‐hand versions, 488–490
    • orientation, 488
  • Mirror Entities PropertyManager, 290
  • Mirror Entities tool, 72, 289–290
  • MirrorComponent icon, 432
  • mirroring, 289
    • 3D sketches, 291
    • 3D solids
      • bodies, 308–309
      • features, 309
      • parts, entire, 309–310
    • Dynamic Mirror, 290
    • mirror components, 432, 487
      • opposite‐hand versions, 488–490
      • orientation, 488
    • Mirror Entities tool, 289–290
    • tutorial, 311–313
  • Miter Flange feature, 963–964
  • MMB (middle mouse button), 143, 144–145
  • Mode tabs, 26
  • Model Items PropertyManager, 788–790
  • Model View PropertyManager, 137, 728–729
  • Model views, 728–732
    • Cosmetic Thread Display, 730
    • dimensions, 732
    • Display State, 731
    • Display Style, 731
    • Import Options panel, 731
    • multiple views, 730–731
    • open documents, 729
    • Reference Configuration, 730
    • scale, 731–732
    • Select Bodies, 730
    • Start Command When Creating New Drawing, 730
    • thumbnail preview, 730
  • modeling
    • assemblies
      • base parts, 416–417
      • bottom‐up with mates, 416–417
      • bottom‐up with skeleton, 418
      • in‐context design, 418
      • mates, 416–417
    • best practices, 383–385
    • bottom‐up, 605
    • bottom‐up assembly, 422
    • feature‐based, 15–16
    • history‐based, 16–18
    • horizontal, 386
    • hybrid modeling, 907–908
    • in‐place, 605
    • master model, 421–422
    • mates, position, 451
    • multibody, 419–421
    • resilient, 386
    • solid modeling, 15
    • top‐down, 605
  • models, tables in, 836–837
  • Modify Configurations dialog box, 344–346
  • Modify dialog box, 343
  • Modify Dimension box, 83–84, 327–328
  • Modify Sketch tool, 80–81, 191–192
  • Mold tools, 1107–1109
    • Core feature, 1121
    • mold folders, 1111–1112
    • nonplanar parting surfaces, 1123–1124
    • Parting Lines feature, 1113–1115
    • Parting Surface feature, Manual mode, 1117–1119
    • plastic part model
      • applying draft, 1109–1110
      • blank parts and, 1110
      • shelling, 1109–1110
    • Scale feature, 1110–1111
    • shut offs, 1115–1117
      • passing, 1122–1123
    • Tooling Split feature, 1119–1121
  • monitors, multiple, 58–59
  • motion. See also animation
    • animation and, 669
    • basic motion, 669
    • creating, 460–462
    • dynamic, 872
    • Dynamic Assembly Motion, 459
    • Exploded View, 670
    • Mate Controller, 670
    • Record Screen, 670
    • walk‐throughs and, 669
  • motion studies, 669
  • MotionManager. See also animation
    • action speed, 693
    • animation, 670
      • dynamic assembly motion, 670
      • exploded, 678–682
      • key frames, 670
      • playing, 677
    • Animation Wizard, 671
    • Basic Motion, 670
    • camera, paths, 688–690
    • change bar, 671, 676
    • design tree, 671, 673
    • filters, 671
    • formatting output, 673–674
    • interface access, 673
    • key points, 671, 673, 684
      • copying motion, 693
      • creating, 685–686
      • Disable Playback of View Keys, 684
      • interpolation, 687
      • mirroring motion, 693
      • mistake correction, 687–688
      • Orientation and Camera Views, 684
      • timebar, 685, 692–693
      • view manipulation, 686
      • zooming, 686
    • Motion Manager toolbar, 671
    • Motion Study Properties, 673
    • motion study tab, 671
    • playback speed, 673
    • SolidWorks Motion, 670
    • study type, 671
    • timebar, 671, 673
    • timeline area, 671
    • timeline zoom, 673
  • mouse
    • customizing, 51
    • gestures, 145–146
    • MMB (middle mouse button), 144–145
    • RBM (right mouse button), 145–146
    • spaceball (3D), 144
    • wheel settings, 144
  • Move Component tool, 516–519
  • Move Entities tool, 190
  • Move tool, 76
  • Move with Triad tool, 519
  • Move/Copy Bodies feature, 877–879, 881–883, 887–888
  • multibody modeling, 419–421, 614–615, 871
    • adding bodies, 892–893
      • secondary operations, 893
      • starting point, 894
    • versus assembly modeling, 872–873
    • Body folders, 895–897
    • Boolean operations, Indent feature, 879–881
    • Combine feature, 881–883
    • creating multiple bodies, 875–877
    • cuts, 876
    • Delete/Keep feature, 899–900
    • deleting bodies, 899–900
    • disjointed bodies, connecting, 888
    • Feature Scope, 889–890
      • Delete/Keep Bodies, 890
      • Rib feature, 890
    • hiding bodies, 897–899
    • Insert Part feature, 892–893
    • Intersect, 894–895
    • local operations
      • Flex feature, 883–884
      • Shell feature, 884–885
      • tutorial, 900–901
    • loops, extruding, 875
    • Master Model workflow, 878
    • Merge Result option, 876
      • Feature Scope and, 889–890
    • merging tutorial, 900–901
    • Move/Copy Bodies feature, 881–883
    • parts, complex, simplifying, 886–887
    • patterning, 885–886
      • tutorial, 901–903
    • renaming bodies, 900
    • shapes, complex, 877–879
    • sharing bodies, 876–877
    • sheet metal drawings
      • cut list properties, 1013–1014
      • cut list templates, 1015
      • cut lists, placing, 1014–1015
      • cut lists in parts, 1013
      • displaying bodies, 1012–1013
    • showing bodies, 897–899
    • solids, bridging, 887–888
    • Split feature, 890–891
      • planes and, 892
      • sketches and, 891–892
      • surface bodies and, 892
      • tutorial, 901–903
    • techniques, 873–874
      • Boolean operations, 874
      • bridges, 875
      • complex shapes, 874
      • geometry, imported, 875
      • local operations, 875
      • patterning, 875
      • solids, bridges, 875
      • tool bodies, 874
      • undetermined manufacturing methods, 875
    • tool bodies, Indent feature, 879–881
    • troubleshooting, 872
    • tutorials
      • local operations, 900–901
      • merging, 900–901
      • patterning bodies, 901–903
      • splitting bodies, 901–903
    • undetermined manufacturing methods, 888–889
    • uses, 873–874
  • multiple‐radius fillet, 232
  • myths about sketches, 286–287

N

  • naming dimensions, equations, 318–320
  • navigating 3D sketches, 201–202
  • nested contour sketches, 220
  • nested loops, 124
  • net shape processes, 1073
  • networks, template access, 14
  • new documents, 8–9
  • New SolidWorks Document dialog box, 8, 99
  • No Solve Move setting, 91
  • Note button, 765
  • Note PropertyManager, 138, 775
    • Style panel, 772–773
    • Text Format panel, 767
    • Wordwrap, 766–767
  • notes
    • adding, 775
    • alignment, 771
    • balloons, 771–772
    • custom properties, linking to, 774–775
    • Fit Text button, 767
    • fonts, 772–773
      • OLF SimpleSansOC font, 766
    • Linear Note Pattern PropertyManager, 767–769
    • linking to custom properties, 847
    • patterns, 767–769
    • placing, 769–770
    • styles, 772–773
    • symbols and, 779
    • text boxes, 766–767
    • text wrapping, 766–767
    • workflow, 765–766
  • Novice interface, 12
  • numbers, Enable On‐Screen Numeric Input, 65
  • numeric input, 189
  • NURBS (Non‐Uniform Rational B Spline), 908

O

  • Offset Entities interface, 72, 73
    • Add Dimensions option, 72
    • Bi‐Directional option, 72
    • Cap Ends option, 72
    • Construction Geometry option, 72
    • Reverse option, 72
    • Select Chain option, 72
  • Offset Surface feature, 912–913
  • Offset tool, 909
  • OLF SimpleSansOC font, 766
  • OmniClass, 667
  • On‐Screen Numeric Input option
  • open and closed contours sketches, 220
  • Open command, 56
  • open contour construction line sketches, 220
  • open contour sketches, 220
  • Open dialog box, 56
  • ordering
    • features, 378–379
    • folders, 379–380
  • Ordinate Dimension tool, 86–87
  • ordinate dimensions, 86–87, 793–794
  • orientation
  • Overdefining/Not Solved category, 23
  • Override Dims on Drag setting, 91
  • Overrides, appearances, 160–163

P

  • Pack and Go, 645, 646–647
  • Page Setup dialog box, 792–793
  • palettes, View, 727–728
  • Pan tool, 150
  • parabola, 77
  • Parallelogram tool, 66
  • parallelograms, 66
  • parasolids, 1049, 1051–1052
  • parent/child relationships, 18
    • DRV and, 40
    • master model and, 933–934
    • Rollback and, 372–376
  • Part Reviewer, 377–378
  • partial ellipse, 77
  • parts, 8
    • animation
    • assemblies and, 429
    • bounding boxes, 872
    • building in place, 520
    • center‐of‐body calculation, 872
    • chamfers, 135–137
    • complex, simplifying, 886–887
    • configurations, 336, 354–355
    • contour selection, 121–122
    • creating, 61–62
      • starting, 113–116
      • tutorial, 128–136
    • dimensions, 322
      • direct, 124–125
    • display states and, 592
    • dragging, 516–517
      • Along Assembly XYZ, 517
      • Along Entity, 517
      • By Delta XYZ, 517–518
      • Use For Positioning Only option, 513–514
      • To XYZ Position, 518–519
    • Extrude feature, 116
      • end conditions, 118–120
      • Mid Plane, 123–124
      • from selection, 116–118
      • Thin Feature panel, 120–121, 124
    • FeatureManager, new part, 62
    • fillets, 135–137
    • flexibility, 682
    • Free Drag, 516–517
    • geometry, creating, 608
    • in‐context, 609–611
    • Instant 3D, 122–123
    • library features, creating, 548–550
    • library parts, 542–543
      • reusing, 872
    • machined, 113
    • Move Component tool, 516–519
    • Move with Triad, 519
    • multibody modeling, 419–421
    • new, 606–607
    • patterns, component patterns, 432
    • properties, custom, 872
    • proximity tools, 520
      • Clearance Verification, 520, 523
      • Collision Detection, 525–526
      • Dynamic Clearance, 523–525
      • Interference Detection, 521–523
      • Physical Dynamics, 526
      • Sensors, 526–528
    • Reload tool, 653–654
    • renaming, 645
    • reusing, 872
    • size, relative, 124–125
    • slots, 134
      • Hole Wizard, 133–134
      • sketched, 133–134
    • subassemblies, 649–650
    • symmetry, 116
    • template, 61–62
  • Paste Appearance tool, 152
  • Path mate, 469
  • path segments, planar, 204
  • Pattern Faces option, 294–295
  • patterns, 283
    • center marks and, 781
    • chain, 492–494
    • Circular, 288–289, 299–300, 484
    • Component, 432, 483
    • component, feature‐driven, 491
    • component patterns, 432
      • local, 484–486
    • cosmetic, 307–308
    • Curve‐Driven, 300–302
    • faces, 294–295
    • Fill, 303–304
    • fillets, 295
    • Geometry Pattern, 284–286, 292–293
    • Linear, 287–288, 296–299
    • multibody modeling and, 875, 885–886
    • notes, 767–769
    • rebuild times, 285
    • Sketch Pattern tool, 287
    • sketch‐driven, 302
    • table‐driven, 302–303
    • Variable, 304–307
  • PDM (Product Data Management), 14, 200, 645
  • Pen Settings, 91
  • Pen Sketch tool, 54, 97–98
  • Pen tool, 54
  • Performance Benchmark, 403–405
  • Performance Evaluation tool, 651
  • perimeter creation
    • Tangent to Three Entities, 68
    • Tangent to Two Entities, 68
  • perspective, 196
  • PhotoView 360, animation and, 671
  • Physical Dynamics, 526
  • pictures, tutorial, 208–211
  • Pierce sketch relation, sweeps and, 228–229
  • planar path segments, 3D sketches, 204
  • planar surfaces, 916
  • Plane PropertyManager, 93
    • Flip Normal, 93
  • planes
    • 3D, 203
    • axes, 94
    • configurations and, 353–354
    • coordinate systems, 94–96
    • creating, 93–94
    • design tables, 356
  • planning animation, 672
  • plastic evaluation tools, 1093
    • Draft Analysis tool
      • Basic, 1094
      • Face Classification, 1096–1097
      • Gradual Transition, 1095–1096
      • steep faces, 1097
      • workflow, 1098
    • Thickness Analysis
      • Show Thick Regions option, 1098–1099
      • Show Thin Regions option, 1098
      • workflow, 1099–1101
    • Undercut Analysis, 1100–1101
      • workflow, 1101–1102
  • Plastic features, 1073
    • Draft feature, 1083–1084
      • DraftXpert, 1087
      • failure, 1086–1087
      • Neutral Plane draft, 1084
      • Parting Lane draft, 1084–1085
      • Step draft, 1085–1086
    • Indent feature, 1087–1088
    • Lip/Groove feature, 1078–1079
    • Mounting Boss feature, 1074–1076
    • Rib feature, 1079–1080
      • draft, 1080–1081
      • intersection curves, 1081
      • terminating ribs, 1081–1082
    • Shell feature, 1088–1089
      • multi‐thickness shell, 1089
      • Shell Outward option, 1089–1090
      • workflow, 1090–1091
    • Snap Hook feature, 1076–1078
    • Snap Hook Groove feature, 1076–1078
    • Thin features, 1083
    • Vent feature, 1091–1093
  • Point tool, 71
  • points
    • inflection point, 71
    • reference geometry and, 96
    • splines, 71
  • point‐to‐point Coincident mate, 459–460
  • Polygon tool, 77
  • polygons, control, 71
  • populating assemblies, 126–127
  • positioning, floors, 145
  • Power Trim tool, 79
  • predefined views, 747
  • predicting change, 112–113
  • primary features, 112
  • prismatic shapes, 113–114
  • Pro/ENGINEER, 1049
  • Profile Center mate, 463
  • projected curves, 262, 264
    • sketch on face, 265
    • sketch on sketch, 265
  • Projected View PropertyManager, 733
  • Projected views, 732–733
  • Projection Angle setting, 9
  • properties
    • assemblies
      • assigning document driving, 846–847
      • linking notes to, 847
    • configurations, 351–352
    • custom, 346–347
      • parts, 872
    • cut‐list, 872
    • formats, 710–711
      • custom data, 711
      • Custom Properties tab, 711–712
      • error display, 713–714
      • link variables, 713–714
      • linked, 714–715
      • links, 712–713
      • Summary Information dialog box, 711
    • mass calculations, 872
    • notes, linking to, 774–775
  • Property Managers
    • Insert Part, 893
  • Property Tab Builder, 346–347
    • templates, 347
  • PropertyManagers, 26, 38, 380–381. See also specific PropertyManager
    • 3D Planes, 203
    • Add Dimensions option, 66
    • Add Relation, 71
    • Annotation, 772–773
    • Appearances, 160–163
    • Area Hatch/Fill, 857
    • assemblies, 126
    • Autodimension, 794–795
    • Bill of Materials, 837
    • Block, 775–776
    • Boundary Surface, 912
    • Broken View, 745
    • Camera, 170, 171, 688–689
    • Circle, 67–68
    • Circular Pattern, 289
    • Color, 176
    • Combine, 882–883
    • For Construction option, 70
    • Detached, 26
    • detaching, 42–44
    • Dimension, 84, 318–319, 791
    • displaying, 381
    • Drawing View, 138
    • Edit Scene, 145
    • Emboss, 272
    • Equation Driven Curve, 82
    • Extrude, 120–121, 876
    • Extruded Surface, 909–910
    • FeatureManager split screen, 40
    • Fillet, 135, 232
    • FilletXpert, 236
    • GridSystem, 665
    • Helix/Spiral, 263
    • Indent, 880–881
    • Insert Component, 561
    • Insert Line interface, 65
    • Insert Line option, 65–66
    • Insert Part, 935
    • Library Feature, 540
    • Linear Note Pattern, 767–769
    • Linear Pattern, 288
    • Loft, 226
    • Mate, 450, 642–645
    • Mated Entities, 642, 644
    • MidSurface, 921
    • Mirror Entities, 290
    • Model Items, 788–790
    • Model View, 137, 728–729
    • Note, 138, 775
    • Offset Entities interface, 72
    • Plane, 93
    • Point reference geometry, 96
    • Projected View, 733
    • Relative View, 749
    • Revision Table, 834–836
    • Revolve, 222
    • Scale, 191, 268
    • Scene, 167, 168
    • Section View, 151, 179, 737–738
    • Sensor, 200
    • Sheet Metal, 951–953
    • Sketch Pattern, 767–769
    • Sketch Picture, 193–194, 196, 209
    • Sketch Text, 197
    • Slot, 134
    • Slot sketch entries, 82
    • Snap Hook, 1077
    • Snap Hook Groove, 1077
    • SpeedPak, 864
    • Sweep, 227, 228
    • switching to, 42
    • Text Format, 138
    • Thicken, 916
    • Title Block, 715–716
    • Trim interface, 73
    • Walk‐through, 661–663
    • Wrap, 271–272
  • proximity tools, 520
    • Clearance Verification, 520
    • Collision Detection, 525–526
    • Dynamic Clearance, 523–525
    • Interference Detection, 521
      • Component View, 522
      • ignoring interference, 522
      • results display, 522
    • Physical Dynamics, 526
    • Sensors, 526–528
  • Pull functions, 934–935
    • Insert Into New Part feature, 938
    • Insert Part feature, 935–937
  • Push functions, 934–935, 938–939
    • Save Bodies feature, 940–941
    • Split feature, 939–940

Q

  • Quick Snaps flyout, 72

R

  • Rack and Pinion mate, 466
  • Radiate Surface tool, 913–914
  • Radiate tool, 909
  • Rapid Dimension manipulator wheel, 791
  • RapidSketch, 199
  • RBM (right mouse button), 145–146
  • RealView tool, 152, 173
  • Rebuild Block tool, 92
  • rebuilds
    • configurations, 342–343
    • patterns, 285
    • segmenting, 872
    • Verification on Rebuild, 388–389
  • Recent documents, 56–58
  • Record Screen, 670
  • records, update holders, 606
  • Rectangle flyout, 66–67
  • rectangles
    • arcs, 187
    • Corner Rectangle tool, 66
  • reference dimensions, 790–791
    • annotation views, 792
    • autodimensioning, 794–795
    • baseline, 793–794
    • DimXpert and, 791–792
    • ordinate, 793–794
    • reference sketches, 795
  • reference entities, 462
  • reference geometry, 62, 93
    • assemblies, 428
    • axes, 93, 94
    • coordinate systems, 93, 94–96
    • mate references, 93
    • planes, 93
      • creating, 93–94
    • points, 96
    • tutorial, 105–109
  • Reference Geometry toolbar, 93
  • reference sketches, 795
  • references
    • circular references, 427, 503
    • editing, 183–184
    • in‐context modeling, 611–613
    • records, update holders, 606
    • tracking, 386
  • relations
    • 3D sketches, 202–203
    • configurations and, 352–353
    • copying, tutorial, 204–208
    • design tables, 356
    • Display/Delete Relations tool, 184–186
    • editing, 183–184
      • tutorial, 204–208
    • Equal, 116
    • in‐context, 427
    • Replace Entity tool, 186–187
    • SketchXpert, 188
    • Symmetry, 291
    • tutorial, 98–102
  • relationships. See also sketch relations
    • DRV and, 40
    • parent/child, 18
  • relative size, 124–125
  • Relative View PropertyManager, 749
  • relative views, 748–749
  • reliefs, 956–957
  • Reload tool, 653–654
  • reloading formats, 719–720
  • reordering. See ordering
  • Replace Components tool, 647–649
  • Replace Entity tool, 186–187
  • Replace Face tool, 921
  • Replace Mate Entities tool, 642, 644
  • resilient modeling, 112–113, 386
  • Revision Table PropertyManager, 834–836
  • revision tables, 834–836
    • tutorials, 843–844
  • Revolve feature, 113
    • contours and, 223
    • end conditions, 222
    • workflow, 222–223
  • Revolve process, 15
  • Revolve PropertyManager, 222
  • Revolve tool, 909
  • Rhino, 1049
  • Rib feature, 1079–1080
    • draft, 1080–1081
    • intersection curves, 1081
    • terminating ribs, 1081–1082
  • RMB menu, 26
  • Roll View tool, 150
  • Rollback, 26, 371–372
    • consumed features, 372
    • parent‐child relationships, 372–376
  • Rotate About Scene Floor option, 145
  • Rotate Animation Wizard, 688
  • Rotate Entities tool, 190
  • Rotate function (Modify Sketch), 192
  • Rotate tool, 76
  • Rotate View tool, 150
  • rotating
    • animations, 674–677
    • Rotate About Scene Floor option, 145
  • Route Line feature, 853–854
  • routing, libraries, 543
  • Ruled Surface tool, 922–923
  • ruled surfaces, 908
  • Ruled tool, 909

S

  • S key toolbar, 38
  • "S" menu, 26
  • Save As Copy tool, 645
  • Save As dialog box, 646
  • Save As tool, 645
  • Save As with References dialog box, 646
  • Save Block/Save Sketch As Block tool, 92
  • Save Bodies tool, 934
  • Save tool, 645
  • saved views, 727–728, 747–748
  • saving, views, to DWG/DXF, 748
  • Scale Entities tool, 191
  • Scale Factor, 269
  • Scale feature, 268–269
  • Scale PropertyManager, 191, 268
  • Scale tool, 76
  • scaling, 192, 194
  • Scan Equal tool, 89
  • Scene, Lights, and Cameras DisplayManager, 166
  • Scene PropertyManager, 167, 168
  • Scenes (DisplayManager), 157, 165–169
    • Ambient Occlusion, 167
  • Screw mate, 468
  • Scribe feature, 272
  • scrollbars, 147–148
  • Search options, 46–47
  • searches, for files, 47
  • second sheet formats, 718–720
  • Section View dialog box, 855–857
  • Section View PropertyManager, 151, 179, 737–738
  • Section View tool, 151–152, 737–738
  • section views, 855–857
    • Aligned section, 738–739
    • alignment, 856–857
    • editing, 739
    • Half section, 738
    • hatching, 856–857
    • Isometric Sections, 856
    • Partial section, 738
    • parts, excluding, 855
    • Slice section, 738
    • workflow, 736–739
  • sections, pop‐up toolbar, 737
  • Segment tool, 80
  • segmenting rebuilds, 872
  • Select tool, 77
  • Selected Entities category, 23
  • Selection Breadcrumb, 26, 381–383
  • SelectionManager, 226
  • self intersecting contour sketches, 220
  • Sensor PropertyManager, 200
  • sensors, 199–200
    • adding, 527
    • dimension, 526
    • interference detection, 527
    • mass, 526
    • measurement, 527
    • proximity, 527
    • simulation data, 526
    • surface area, 526
    • volume, 526
  • setback fillet, 232, 251–253
    • variable radius, 232
  • Shaded Sketch Contours, 67, 91
  • Shaded tool, 151
  • Shaded with Edges tool, 151
  • Shadows in Shaded Mode tool, 151
  • shapes
    • complex, multibody modeling, 877–879
    • modeling, global modeling, 275–277
    • prismatic, 113–114
  • sharing
    • bodies, multibody modeling, 876–877
    • templates, 14
  • sharp edges, estimating, 196
  • Sheet Format, 141
  • Sheet Format tools
    • Automatic Border, 707–708
    • Edit Sheet Format, 707
    • Title Block Fields, 707–708
  • sheet formats, 705
    • layers, 810–811
  • sheet metal drawing, 1005–1006
    • bend areas, 1010–1011
    • bend lines, 1008–1010
    • bend notes, 1008–1010
    • flat pattern, 1006–1008
      • bounding box, showing, 1010
    • multibody modeling and
      • cut list properties, 1013–1014
      • cut list templates, 1015
      • cut lists, placing, 1014–1015
      • cut lists in parts, 1013
      • displaying bodies, 1012–1013
  • sheet metal features, 949
    • Auto Relief, 956–957
    • Base Flange method, 949–950
      • Base Flange/Tab tool, 950–951
      • BaseBend features, 951
    • Bend Allowance, 953
      • bend calculation tables, 955–956
      • Bend Deduction, 954–955
      • bend tables, 953–954
      • K‐factor, 954
    • bend calculation tables, 951–953
    • Bend Radius, 953
    • Closed Corner feature
      • Break Corner, 969–970
      • Coplanar Faces, 969
      • Corner Trim, 969–970
      • Faces to Extend, 968
      • Faces to Match, 968
      • Gap, 968
      • Open Bend Region, 969
      • Overlap/Underlap Ratio, 968
    • conical parts, 990
    • Corner Relief feature, 970–971
    • Edge Flange feature
      • Angle panel, 961
      • curved edges, 962–963
      • default radius, 960
      • Edit Flange Profile button, 959–960
      • Flange Length, 961
      • Flange Position, 962
      • Gap Distance, 960–961
      • Trim Side Bends, 962
    • Flat Pattern feature, 957
      • Convert Entities, 958
      • Corner Treatment option, 958
      • Fixed Face parameter, 958
      • suppressed, 957
    • Fold feature, 978–979
    • Forming Tool feature, 973
      • creating forming tools, 973–974
      • library, 975
      • placing forming tools, 975
      • techniques, 975–977
    • gauge tables, 951–953
    • geometry, import geometry starts, 989–990
    • Gusset feature, 980
    • Hem feature, 964–965
    • Jog feature, 965–966
      • Fixed Face, 965–966
      • Fixed Projected Length, 966–967
      • Jog Angle, 967
      • Jog Offset, 966
      • Jog Position, 967
    • Lofted Bends feature, 977–978
    • method mixing, 990–991
    • mirroring, 971–972
    • Miter Flange feature, 963–964
    • multibody modeling techniques and
      • base flanges, 992
      • Insert Part feature, 991–992
    • parts from generic models, 983–984
      • Convert to Sheet Metal feature, 988–989
      • Cut feature, 984–985
      • Flat Pattern feature, 988
      • Flatten Bends feature, 987
      • No Bends, 988
      • Process Bends feature, 987–988
      • Rip feature, 986
      • Sheet Metal feature, 987
    • patterning, 972
    • reliefs, 956–957
    • Sheet Metal PropertyManager, 951–953
    • Sketched Bend feature, 967
    • Swept Flange feature, 979–981
    • Tab and Slot feature, 981–983
    • Thickness, 953
    • tutorials, 992–999
    • Unfold feature, 978–979
  • Sheet Metal PropertyManager, 951–953
  • Sheet Properties dialog box, 137, 846–847
  • sheets, 141
    • versus views, 30
  • Shell feature, 1088–1089
    • multibody modeling, 884–885
    • multi‐thickness shell, 1089
    • Shell Outward option, 1089–1090
    • workflow, 1090–1091
  • shortcut bars, 38
  • shortcut menus, 38
  • shortcut tabs, 38
  • Shortcut (S) toolbar, 33–34
  • shortcuts, 38
  • Show Feature History, 896–897
  • shut‐off faces, 1108
  • simulation, 669
  • Simulation Display tool, 152
  • single hold‐line fillets, 247–249
  • size
    • relative, 124–125
    • sketch pictures, 193
  • skeleton sketches, 387
  • sketch blocks, 92
  • Sketch button, 64–65
  • Sketch Chamfer tool, 69, 87
  • Sketch CommandManager, 83
  • sketch cursor, 38
  • sketch entities. See entities
  • Sketch Fillet tool, 69
  • sketch fillets, 70
  • Sketch Ink toolbar, 97–98
    • Pen Sketch tool, 97–98
  • Sketch mode, 63
  • Sketch Pattern PropertyManager, 767–769
  • Sketch Pattern tool, 287
  • Sketch Picture PropertyManager, 193–194, 196, 209
  • sketch pictures, 81, 193
    • Auto Trace, 196
    • edges, sharp, 196
    • FeatureManager, 81
    • fonts, stick fonts, 196
    • perspective and, 196
    • scaling, 194
    • sizing, 193
    • transparency, 194
    • views, multiple, 195
  • sketch relations
    • blocks
      • adding, 777
      • definition, 777
      • editing, 778
      • existing, 776
      • layers, 778
      • leaders, 778
      • lock angle, 778
      • parameters, 778
      • text/dimension display, 778
    • categories
      • All in This Sketch, 22
      • Broken, 23
      • Dangling, 22
      • Defined in Context, 23
      • External, 23
      • Locked, 23
      • Overdefining/Not Solved, 23
      • Selected Entities, 23
    • coincident, 19
    • suppressed, 23
  • Sketch Settings
    • Automatic Relations, 90
    • Automatic Solve, 90–91
    • Detach Segment on Drag, 91
    • Enable Snapping, 91
    • No Solve Move, 91
    • Override Dims on Drag, 91
    • Pen Settings, 91
    • Shaded Sketch Contours, 91
  • sketch techniques, 130–132
  • Sketch Text, 196–197
  • Sketch Text Property Manager, 196–197
  • Sketch Text tool, 78
  • Sketch tool, 62
    • FeatureManager and, 63
  • Sketch toolbar, 63, 64–65
    • 3 Point Arc tool, 69
    • 3D Sketch Plane tool, 71
    • 3D Sketch tool, 65
    • Add Relation tool, 71
    • Centerline tool, 70
    • Centerpoint Arc tool, 68–69
    • Circle tool, center creation, 67
    • Circular Sketch Pattern tool, 80
    • Construction Geometry tool, 75
    • Convert Entities tool, 72
      • Offset Entities command, 72–73
    • Copy tool, 76
    • Corner Rectangle tool, 66
    • Curved Slot tool, 82
    • Display/Delete Relations tool, Quick Snaps flyout, 72
    • Dynamic Mirror command, 80
    • Equation Driven Curve tool, 81–82
    • Extend tool, 79
    • Face Curves tool, 79
    • Grid/Snap tool, 77
    • Intersection Curve tool, 78
    • Line tool, 65
    • Linear Sketch Pattern tool, 80
    • Make Path function, 80
    • Mirror Entities tool, 72
    • Modify Sketch tool, 80
    • Move tool, 76
    • Parallelogram tool, 66
    • Point tool, 71
    • Polygon tool, 77
    • Power Trim tool, 79
    • Rotate tool, 76
    • Scale tool, 76
    • Segment tool, 80
    • Select tool, 77
    • Sketch button, 64–65
    • Sketch Chamfer tool, 69
    • Sketch Fillet tool, 69
    • Sketch Text tool, 78
    • Smart Dimension tool, 65
    • Spline on Surface tool, 77
    • Spline tool, 70
    • Split Entities tool, 80
    • Straight Slot tool, 82
    • Stretch tool, 76
    • Tangent Arc tool, 69
    • Trim tool, 73–75
  • sketch‐driven patterns, 302
  • Sketched Bend feature, 967
  • sketches
    • closed contour, 220
    • closed‐loop, 218
    • color
      • Edit Sketch Or Curve Color tool, 198
      • lines, 198
    • Color Display Mode, 198
    • construction geometry, 201
    • context bar, 63
    • creating, 62–64
    • dangling, 20
    • defining fully, 87–88
    • derived, 193
    • design intent, 19
    • doubly nested contour, 220
    • entities, 64–82
    • Fully Defined, 20
    • as geometric calculators, 212–214
    • GridSystem, 664–665
    • inferencing, 89–90
    • layout sketches, assemblies, 426–427, 504–505
    • lines, 62
      • color, 198
      • style, 198–199
      • thickness, 198–199
    • metadata, 200–201
    • modifying, 191–192
    • myths, 286–287
    • nested contour, 220
    • open and closed contours, 220
    • open contour, 220
    • open contour construction line, 220
    • opening, 64
    • parametrics and, 19
    • planar faces, 62
    • planes, 62
    • RapidSketch, 199
    • reference geometry, 62
    • reference sketches, 795
    • requirements, 16
    • self intersecting contour, 220
    • sensors, 199–200
    • tools, 63
    • Underdefined, 20
    • unsolvable, 20
    • views, converting, 748
    • workflows, 62
    • wrongly shared endpoints, 220
    • zero length, 20
  • SketchXpert, 188
  • .sldclr documents, 11
  • .sldmat documents, 11
  • .sldreg documents, 11
  • .sldstd documents, 11
  • Slot PropertyManager, 134
  • Slot sketch entities, 82
  • slots
    • center points, 134
    • cutting, 134
    • Hole Wizard, 133–134
    • sketched, 133–134
  • Smart Components, 562–566
    • auto‐sizing, 566–568
    • creating, 568–570
      • auto‐sizing component, 570–574
    • editing components, 575–576
    • file management, 574–575
    • tutorials, 576–579
  • Smart Dimension tool, 65, 66, 86, 99, 790–791. See also dimensions
    • Autodimension and, 795
    • Instant2D, 83
  • Snap Hook Groove PropertyManager, 1077
  • Snap Hook PropertyManager, 1077
  • snapshots, 146
  • Snapshots, LDR and, 660–661
  • solid bodies, 871
    • bridges, multibody modeling, 887–888
    • multibody modeling and, 875
    • patterns and, 293
  • Solid Edge, 1049
  • solid features, 218
    • Intersect feature, 279
  • solid modeling, 15, 907–908
    • directions, 117–118
    • extruding, 118–120
  • SolidWorks
    • Activation, 5
    • Customer Portal
      • blogs forums, 1172–1173
      • CAD Admin Dashboard, 1172
      • downloads, 1171
      • forums, 1173
      • Forums, 1171
      • installation and administration guides, 1172
      • Knowledge Base, 1171
      • online forums, 1172
      • Release Notes, 1171–1172
      • What's New, 1172
    • Explorer, assemblies and, 425
    • installation, 3
      • reinstallation, 11
    • Installation Manager, 5
    • license agreement, 6
    • login, 26
    • Motion, 669, 670
    • requirements, 4
    • startup, initial, 6–9
    • tables, versus Excel, 821–822
    • Treehouse, assemblies and, 425–426
    • website, 1170
      • Customer Care, 1176
      • system requirements, 1175–1176
      • troubleshooting, 1176
    • website, Downloads area, 4
    • window, viewports, 9
  • SolidWorks RX, 400–403
  • space handle, 201–202
  • specialty features
    • Deboss, 272–273
    • Deform, 275–277
    • Dome, 269–271
    • Emboss, 272
    • Flex feature, 273–275
    • Indent, 277–279
    • Intersect, 279
    • Scale, 268–269
    • Scribe, 272
    • Wrap, 271–272
  • Specify Configurations dialog box, 343
  • speed, file size and, 348–350
  • SpeedPak, 432
    • assembly drawings and, 863–865
    • drawings and, 433
    • ghosts, 432–433
    • self‐contained data, 433
  • SpeedPak PropertyManager, 864
  • spirals, 264
  • Spline loop, Broken‐Out section view, 858–859
  • Spline on Surface tool, 77
  • Spline tool, 70
  • splines, 70
    • control polygon, 71
    • handles
      • direction, 71
      • magnitude, 71
    • inflection point, 71
    • loft comparison, 226–227
    • radius, minimum, 71
    • spline points, 71
    • top vertex, 77
  • Split Entities tool, 80
  • Split feature, 890–891
    • planes and, 892
    • sketches and, 891–892
    • surface bodies and, 892
  • Split Line feature, 262
  • split lines, 267
  • Split tool, 934
  • splitters, 147–148
  • Standard 3 View, 733–734
  • Standard Views toolbar
    • Front view, 146
    • Normal To view, 146
    • Top view, 146
  • status bar, 45–46, 63
  • STEP (Standard for the Exchange of Product), 1049
  • stick fonts, 196
  • stopping face, 973
  • Straight Slot tool, 82
  • Stretch tool, 76
  • style documents
    • .sldgtolfvt, 10
    • .sldsffvt, 10
    • .sldweldfvt, 10
  • styles
    • tutorial, 208–211
  • subassemblies
    • mates, moving to, 650–651
    • parts, adding and removing, 649–650
    • Treehouse and, 649
  • Summary Information dialog box, 711
  • suppressed sketch relations, 23
  • suppression states, 329
    • configurations and, 350–351
  • surface bodies, patterns and, 293
  • surface modeling, 905, 907–908
  • surfacing, 905–906
    • 3D surfaces, extruding, 910
    • Boundary Surface feature, 911–912
    • Boundary Surface PropertyManager, 912
    • curvature, 919
    • developable surfaces, 908
    • Extend Surface tool, 916–917
    • Extend tool, 909
    • Extrude tool, 909–910
    • Extruded Surface PropertyManager, 909–910
    • extruding, 909–910
    • Fill Surface PropertyManager, 919
    • Fill Surface tool, 918–920
    • Fill tool, 909
    • Fillet tool, 909
    • geometry, degenerate, 908
    • Intersect tool, 923–924
    • Knit function, 906
    • Knit Surface tool, 915
    • Loft tool, 909
    • MidSurface tool, 920–921
    • NURBS (Non‐Uniform Rational B Spline), 908
    • Offset Surface feature, 912–913
    • Offset tool, 909
    • planar surfaces, 916
    • Radiate Surface tool, 913–914
    • Radiate tool, 909
    • Replace Face tool, 921
    • Revolve tool, 909
    • Ruled Surface tool, 922–923
    • ruled surfaces, 909, 922–923
    • Ruled tool, 909
    • Sweep tool, 909
    • tangents, 919
    • Thicken Surface tool, 916
    • Thicken tool, 909
    • Trim function, 906–907
    • Trim Surface tool, 917–918
    • Trim tool, 909
    • tutorials
      • Cut With Surface feature, 924–925
      • Fill Surface blend, 927–930
      • Offset Surface command, 925–927
    • Untrim function, 907
    • Untrim tool, 909
  • .swb documents, 11
  • Sweep feature, 223, 227
    • 3D, 229
    • curves, guide curves, 227–228
    • Cut Sweep feature, 230–231
    • Pierce sketch relations, 228–229
    • workflow, 231
  • Sweep PropertyManager, 227, 228
  • Sweep tool, 909
  • .swp documents, 11
  • symbol files
    • gtol.sym, 11
    • swlines.lin, 11
  • symbols, 90
    • adding, 775
    • custom, 780
    • dimensions and, 779
    • FeatureManager, 651–652
    • Geometric Tolerancing symbols, 801–802
    • notes and, 779
  • symmetric fillets, 232, 240–241
  • Symmetric mate, 463–464
  • symmetry, 112, 116
  • Symmetry relation, 291
  • Systems Options Colors dialog box, 47–48

T

  • Table views, 345
  • table‐based BOMs
    • appearance, 827
    • columns, 828
    • combining indented, 827–828
    • configurations, 824–825
    • dissolving indented, 827–828
    • editing, 826–829
    • Excel‐based, retiring, 829
    • indented lists, 827–828
    • item numbers, 826
    • Keep Missing Items, 825
    • numbering indented, 827–828
    • restructured indented, 827–828
    • rows, 828
    • table anchors, 823–824
    • templates, 822–823
    • types, 824
    • Zero Quantity Display, 826
  • table‐driven patterns, 302–303
  • tables
    • design tables, 355–356, 830–832
    • general tables, 836
    • hole tables, 832–834
      • tutorials, 841–843
    • in models, 836–837
    • revision tables, 834–836
  • tabulated drawings, 830–832
  • tags, 26
    • assigning, 46
  • Take Snapshot option, 146
  • Tangent Arc tool, 69
  • tangent arcs, 69
  • tangent edges, 754–756
  • tangents, 919
  • taper helix, 263
  • Task bar, 26
  • Task pane, 26
    • Design Library, 538
    • DisplayManager, 45
      • Appearances, Scenes, and Decals, 43
      • Custom Properties, 43
      • Design Library, 43
      • File Explorer, 43
      • Home tab, 43
      • Recovered Documents, 43
      • SolidWorks Forum, 43
      • View Palette, 43
  • templates, 347, 705
    • assembly drawings, multi‐page templates, 847–848
    • BibleInchTemplate.prtdot, 99
    • blocks in, 724–725
    • BOMs (Bills of Materials), 822–823
    • changing, 705–706
    • custom, 8
    • default, 14
    • drafting standards, 8
    • drawings, 128
    • formats, 705
    • maintaining, 706
    • multiple, 12–14
    • network access, 14
    • part, 61–62
    • predefined views, 720–722
      • aligning, 722
      • limits, 724
      • populating drawings, 722–723
      • scaling, 723
    • properties, 725
    • saving, 725
    • sharing, 14
    • styles in, 724–725
  • templates and formats documents
    • .asmdot, 10
    • .asmprp, 10
    • .drwdot, 10
    • .drwprp, 10
    • journal.doc, 10
    • .prtdot, 10
    • .prtprp, 10
    • .sldbombt, 10
    • .slddrt, 10
    • .sldholtbt, 10
    • .sldrevtbt, 10
    • .sldtbt, 10
    • .sldwldtbt, 10
    • .xls, 10
  • text
    • hyperlinking, 775
    • image placement, 710
    • Sketch Text, 196–197
    • tutorial, 208–211
  • text boxes, notes, 766–767
  • Text Format PropertyManager, 138
  • Thicken PropertyManager, 916
  • Thicken Surface tool, 916
  • Thicken tool, 909
  • thickness, 218
  • Thickness Analysis
    • Show Thick Regions option, 1098–1099
    • Show Thin Regions option, 1098
    • workflow, 1099–1101
  • Thickness feature, 953
  • Thin Feature panel, 120–121
    • Mid‐Plane option, 218
    • One‐Direction option, 218
    • Two‐Direction option, 218
  • Thin features, 218, 1083
  • Third Angle Projection system, 8
  • three‐point arcs, 69
  • thumbnails, Design library, 546–548
  • timeline, 671
  • Title Bar, 26, 63
  • Title Bar menu, 26
  • Title Bar toolbar, 26, 31–32
  • Title Block PropertyManager, 715–716
  • Tolerance/Precision panel, 801–802
  • tolerances, dimensions, 799–800
    • Fit tolerances, 800
    • Geometric Tolerancing symbols, 801–802
    • precision values, 801
  • tool bodies, 879–881
  • tool tips, 34
  • toolbars
    • Blocks, 92
    • CommandManager, 30
      • context toolbars, 32–33
      • Heads‐Up View, 31
      • Shortcut (S), 33–34
      • Title Bar, 31–32
    • Curves, 262
    • flyouts, 32, 35–36
    • Formatting, 766
    • Heads‐Up View, 143–144
    • Layer, 811
    • moving, 35
    • Reference Geometry, 93
    • S key, 38
    • Sketch, 64–65
    • Sketch Ink, 97–98
    • Standard Views, 146
  • Tools menu, 37
  • top vertex, 77
  • top‐down design, 185
  • top‐down modeling, 605
  • Touch interface, settings, 97–98
  • Touch Mode interface, 32
    • Pen Settings, 91
  • Touch tool, 54
  • touchscreen support, 53–54
  • tracking references, 386
  • Translate function (Modify Sketch), 192
  • transparency, 194
  • Tree Display, 440
    • Component References, 441
    • components, 440–441
    • configurations, 440–441
    • dependencies, 442–443
    • descriptions, 440
    • feature names, 440
    • features, 442–443
    • mates, 442–443
    • View Mates and Dependencies, 639–640
  • Treehouse, assemblies, 649
  • Triad, 148–149
  • Trim function, 906–907
  • Trim interface (PropertyManager), 73
    • Corner option, 74
    • Power Trim option, 74
    • Trim Away Closest option, 75
    • Trim Away Inside option, 74
    • Trim Away Outside option, 75
  • Trim Surface tool, 917–918
  • Trim tool, 73–75, 909
  • troubleshooting
    • common error messages, 398–399
    • dismissing errors, 400
    • mates, 473
    • multibody, 872
    • Performance Benchmark, 403–405
    • rebuild errors, 397–398
    • SolidWorks RX, 400–403
    • SolidWorks website, 1176
  • TrueType fonts, 196–197
  • tutorials
    • annotations, 782–784
    • assembly arrangement, 443–446
    • assembly configuration, 600–604
    • assembly drawings, 866–868
    • Blocks and Belts, 102–105
    • BOMs, 837–840
    • bracket casting, 256–260
    • circular patterns, 310–311
    • color, controlling, 208–211
    • component patterns, 495–497
    • configurations, 365–368
    • cosmetic patterns, 313–314
    • design tables, 365–368
    • dimensions, tolerances and, 805–808
    • Direct Editing tools, 1069–1072
    • drawing display tools, 816–818
    • drawings, 137–141
    • editing techniques, 406–412
    • equation use, 330–332
    • evaluation techniques, 406–412
    • FeatureManager, 446–447
    • hole tables, 841–843
    • imported geometry, 1067–1068
    • in‐context modeling, 631–635
    • layouts, 507–512
    • library features, 579–586
    • master model techniques, 941–945
    • mates, 477–480
    • metadata, 211–212
    • mirroring features, 311–313
    • multibodies
      • local operations, 900–901
      • merging, 900–901
      • patterning bodies, 901–903
      • splitting bodies, 901–903
    • part creation, 128–136
    • pictures, controlling, 208–211
    • reference geometry, 105–109
    • relations, 98–102
      • copying, 204–208
      • editing, 204–208
    • repairing solid geometry, 1067–1068
    • revision tables, 843–844
    • sheet metal features, 992–999
    • sketches as geometric calculators, 212–214
    • Smart Components, 576–579
    • styles, controlling, 208–211
    • text, controlling, 208–211
    • views
      • option, 756–762
      • settings, 756–762
      • types, 756–762
    • visualization, 175–179
    • weldments, 1040–1046
    • wire‐formed part, 280–282
  • twists, Flex feature, 273–275
  • .txt documents, 11

U

  • Undercut Analysis, 1100–1101
    • workflow, 1101–1102
  • underdefined sketches, 20
  • uniform scaling, 269
  • Unigraphics/SDRC (NX), 1049
  • unsolvable sketches, 20
  • Untrim function, 907
  • Untrim tool, 909
  • update holders, 606
  • Use For Positioning Only option, 513–514

V

  • Variable pattern, 304–307
  • Variable Pitch helix, 262
  • variable‐radius fillets
    • transitions, 245
    • uses, 245
    • values, 243–244
  • variables, global, 326–327, 424
  • variable‐size fillet, 232
  • Vent feature, 1091–1093
  • Verification on Rebuild, 388–389
  • Vertical Dimension tool, 86
  • View Bounding Box tool, 152
  • View indicator, 26
  • View Mate Errors window, 641
  • View Mates and Dependencies, 639–640
  • View Mates tool, 640
  • View menu, 37
  • View Orientation dialog box, 154–156
  • View Orientation toolbar, 150
  • View Orientation view, 747–748
  • View palette, 727–728
  • View toolbar
    • customizing, 146
    • Take Snapshot option, 146
    • tools, 147
  • viewports, 9
  • views, 143
    • 3D Drawing View, 150, 749–750
    • alignment and, 750–751
    • alternate position, 745–747, 849–850
    • Ambient Occlusion tool, 152
    • animating, 683–684
      • key points, 684–688
    • annotation views, 156–157, 728–729
    • appearances, 160
      • applying, 157–158
      • Display States and, 163
      • versus materials, 159–160
      • Overrides, 160–163
      • removing, 164–165
    • Apply Scene tool, 152
    • arrow keys, 144
    • auxiliary, 745
    • Break, 743–745
    • Broken‐Out section, 858
      • closed loop, 858–859
      • depth, 859
      • editing, 860
      • properties, 860
    • Broken‐Out Views, 740–743
    • Cartoon tool, 152
    • Change Display States tool, 153
    • color
      • applying, 174
      • assembly drawings, 860–861
    • displays
      • display states, 751
      • display styles, 751–752
      • layers, 752–753
      • tangent edges, 754–756
    • Draft, Undercut, and Parting Line Analysis tool, 152
    • edges, 174
    • Edit Appearance tool, 152
    • empty, 747
    • exploded, 850–854
    • Heads‐Up View toolbar, 143–144
    • Hidden Lines Removed (HLR) tool, 151
    • Hidden Lines Visible (HLV) tool, 151
    • Hide All Types tool, 153
    • Magnifying Glass, 148
    • Model, 728–729
    • mouse, MMB (middle mouse button), 144–145
    • mouse gestures, 145–146
    • multiple, 195
    • orientation and, 750–751
    • Pan tool, 150
    • Paste Appearance tool, 152
    • predefined, 747
    • Projected, 732–733
    • RealView tool, 152
    • relative, 748–749
    • Roll View tool, 150
    • Rotate About Scene Floor option, 145
    • Rotate View tool, 150
    • saved, 727–728, 747–748
    • saving, to DWG/DXF, 748
    • scrollbars, 147–148
    • section, 855–857
      • alignment, 856–857
      • hatching, 856–857
      • Isometric Sections, 856
      • parts, excluding, 855
    • Section, 736–739
    • Section View tool, 151–152
    • section views, 855–857
    • Shaded tool, 151
    • Shaded with Edges tool, 151
    • Shadows in Shaded Mode tool, 151
    • versus sheets, 756
    • Simulation Display tool, 152
    • splitters, 147–148
    • Standard 3 View, 733–734
    • Table views, 345
    • Triad, 148–149
    • View Bounding Box tool, 152
    • View Orientation, 747–748
    • View Orientation toolbar, 150
    • View Quality settings, 755–756
    • Walkthrough tool, 153
    • Wireframe tool, 150
    • Zebra Stripes tool, 153–154
    • Zoom about Screen Center tool, 150
    • Zoom In/Out tool, 150
    • Zoom to Area tool, 150
    • Zoom to Fit tool, 149
    • Zoom to Selection tool, 150
  • virtual components, 428, 607–608
  • Virtual Parts, 606
  • visualization, 143. See also views
    • tutorial, 175–179
  • VOR (Verification on Rebuild), 284

W

  • Walk‐through PropertyManager, 661–663
  • Walkthrough tool, 153
  • walk‐throughs, 661–663
    • DisplayManager, 662
    • motion and, 669
    • workflows, 663
  • warnings versus errors, 638
  • Welcome to SolidWorks dialog, 7
  • weld beads, 558–560
  • Weldment tools
    • Arc Segments, 1028–1029
      • configurations, 1029
      • patterning bodies, 1029
      • symmetry, 1029
    • cut lists, 1033–1034
      • excluding items, 1034–1035
      • properties, 1034
      • reordering items, 1034–1035
    • End Cap feature, 1030
    • Fillet Beads, 1036–1038
    • Gusset feature, 1030
    • nonstructural components, 1032
    • profiles, custom, 1026–1029
    • Structural Member feature
      • contiguous groups, 1024
      • disjoint sketch segments, 1025–1026
      • groups, 1024–1025
      • parallel groups, 1024
      • path segment groups, 1024–1025
      • profile orientation, 1025
    • sub‐weldments, 1032
    • Trim/Extend feature, 1029–1030
    • Weld Beads, 1036–1038
    • Weldment button, 1022
    • Weldment Properties, 1022–1023
    • Weldment toolbar, 1022
  • weldments
    • 3D sketches, 1017–1018
      • dimensions, 1021–1022
      • navigating, 1018–1019
      • path segment limits, 1021
      • plane creation, 1020–1021
      • sketch relations, 1019
    • drawings, creating, 1038–1039
    • tutorial, 1040–1046
  • Width mate, 465
  • Window expander, 26
  • Window menu
    • Arrange Icons option, 58
    • Cascade option, 58
    • Close All option, 58
    • New Window option, 58
    • Tile Horizontally option, 58
    • Tile Vertically option, 58
  • windows
    • documents, multiple, 55
    • monitors, multiple, 58–59
  • wire‐formed part, tutorial, 280–282
  • Wireframe tool, 150
  • workflows, 62, 218–219
    • assembly layouts, 501
    • exploded view creation, 850–854
    • Extrude feature, 219
    • Helix curves, 264
    • Master Model, 878
    • notes, 765–766
    • Section Views, 736–739
    • walk‐throughs, 663
  • Workspace menu, 32
  • Wrap feature, 271–273
  • Wrap PropertyManager, 271–272
  • wrongly shared endpoints sketches, 220

X

  • .xls documents, 11

Z

  • Zebra Stripes tool, 153–154
  • zero length sketches, 20
  • Zoom about Screen Center tool, 150
  • Zoom In/Out tool, 150
  • Zoom to Area tool, 150
  • Zoom to Fit tool, 149
  • Zoom to Selection tool, 150
  • zooms, animating, 682
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