Tips and tricks - Helping you to get the most out of SOLIDWORKS

Do you want to improve your sketching speed and efficiency in SOLIDWORKS? In this tips and tricks video, we explore 30 practical sketch techniques that can help streamline your workflow and make every day sketching tasks faster and easier.

This video walks through a variety of useful techniques—from keyboard shortcuts like S, Q, and Tab, to smarter ways of creating lines, arcs, circles, and sketch relations. It also covers features such as shaded sketch contours, box selection methods, preview sketch dimensions, and efficient ways to copy, move, mirror, and fully define sketch geometry.

Whether you’re new to SOLIDWORKS or a long-time user looking to refresh your skills, these sketch tips can help you work more productively and build cleaner, more efficient models. Watch the full video to discover small techniques that can make a big difference in your daily design workflow.

The second video in our SOLIDWORKS Tips and Tricks series focuses on powerful feature-based techniques to help you model faster and more efficiently. Continuing from our previous sketch tips video, we build on the same part and demonstrate 30 practical feature tips.

Throughout the video, we explore a range of useful tools and workflows including multi-radius fillets, rapid sketching across multiple faces, advanced hole creation, and faster ways to launch and repeat commands. You’ll also see techniques for selecting hidden geometry with “Select Other,” mirroring features and bodies efficiently, using global variables to control dimensions, and managing multibody parts with tools like Isolate, Move Face, and Indent.

Whether you’re refining machined components or building more complex models, these tips show how combining small interface shortcuts with powerful feature tools can significantly speed up your workflow.

The third video in our SOLIDWORKS Tips and Tricks series, takes you through powerful assembly workflows and techniques. In this video, we cover 30 practical assembly tips designed to help you build, and navigate assemblies more efficiently. If you’ve already watched our sketch and feature tips videos, this installment continues the series by exploring the tools and shortcuts that make working with assemblies faster and easier.

The video demonstrates a variety of useful techniques—from improving performance when opening large assemblies to smarter ways of inserting components, creating mates, and working with sub-assemblies. You’ll also learn helpful tricks such as using keyboard shortcuts to hide or reveal geometry, selecting hidden faces, copying components with mates, and using quick mates or smart mates to speed up your processes..