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Explore the refreshed Spatial Visualization course designed to help beginners build core 3D visualization skills with practice exercises and assessments.

Sheet Formats can be swapped in SOLIDWORKS drawings to increase sheet size or update title blocks without impacting existing drawing views.

SOLIDWORKS 2026 features several quality of life and performance enhancements for assemblies, including AI fastener recognition.

Bills of materials can be managed, modified, and exported in 3DEXPERIENCE by using the Engineering Release app, part of the Product Release Engineer role.

The free eDrawings viewer allows you to open SOLIDWORKS files without a license and enables design review and collaboration with available markup tools.

The updated Introduction to eDrawings course focuses on CAD viewing and collaboration, using updated tools and design review processes.

SOLIDWORKS 2026 allows Cut List properties such as Total Length to be accessed, linked, and used downstream similar to standard File Properties.

PDM 2026 introduces automatic synchronization, which lets you transfer ownership between users/machines and recover stranded data.

Magnetic Lines in SOLIDWORKS 2026 now work with notes, weld symbols, GD&T, surface finishes, and revision symbols for faster, cleaner drawings.

SOLIDWORKS branding has caused recent confusion, using several terms which have since been abandoned.