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Terminology

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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