To get the most out of this book

You will need to have access to the SOLIDWORKS software for most of the chapters. Some chapters will also require you to have access to Microsoft Excel on the same machine.

You should practically follow all the steps and examples in this book in SOLIDWORKS as you are reading the book. This is because the book was designed to give you hands-on practical experience.

There are no prerequisite knowledge or skills required to follow this book. However, having a basic, theoretical understanding of what 3D modeling is would be helpful.

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You can download the example code files for this book from your account at www.packt.com. If you purchased this book elsewhere, you can visit www.packtpub.com/support and register to have the files emailed directly to you.

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2. Select the Support tab.
3. Click on Code Downloads.
4. Enter the name of the book in the Search box and follow the onscreen instructions.

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The code bundle for the book is also hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-3D-Modelling-with-SOLIDWORKS-2020. In case there's an update to the code, it will be updated on the existing GitHub repository.

We also have other code bundles from our rich catalog of books and videos available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/. Check them out!

Download the color images

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: https://static.packt-cdn.com/downloads/9781789804102_ColorImages.pdf.

Code in Action

Visit the following link to check out videos of the code being run:

http://bit.ly/37MKzn1

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in the text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "Input the Right View and Top View notes the same way."

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on screen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Select Drawing, then click on OK."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.