The 3D part is the basic building block of the SolidWorks mechanical design software. This section describes parts and some ways to work with them, including:
Modeling solid multibody parts
Applying custom properties
Editing properties of features and faces
Editing, moving, and copying
Using color
Specifying material properties
Using equations
Dependency editing using suppress and unsuppress
Derived parts and external references
Splitting parts
Displaying a section view of the model
Annotating parts
Specifying lighting characteristics
Calculating or assigning mass properties
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