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Following are some AutoCAD® software terms and their equivalent SolidWorks® software terms, with links to SolidWorks Help topics. See the Glossary topic in the table of contents of the SolidWorks Help for more terms.

AutoCAD®	SolidWorks®

array	pattern
associative dimension	parametric dimension
associative hatching	area hatch
B-spline curve	spline
constraint	relation
construction plane	plane
continued dimension	ordinate dimension
crossing selection	cross selection
dimension style	styles
drawing extents	bounding box
extension line offset	extension line gap
freeze	suppress
initial environment	drawing sheet format
interpolation point	spline point
layout	drawing view
linetype	line style
model space	3D part or assembly document
named view	orientation
object snaps	sketch snaps
paper space	drawing sheet
polar array	circular sketch pattern
polar snap	snap to angle
regenerate	rebuild
template drawing	drawing template
thaw	unsuppress
window selection	box selection

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