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® |
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| 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 |