Before you draw your first extrusion, go to . Turn off "Enhanced graphics performance" if you have a gaming GPU. Turn on "Use Software OpenGL" only if you see black squares flickering.
If you are downloading from the web, go make coffee. Then tea. Then consider a nap. SolidWorks 2020 is roughly 15GB. Even on good internet, the "Download Manager" has the emotional speed of a filing cabinet.
SolidWorks 2020 introduced stricter validation. If your serial is for 2019, it will not work. Do not argue with the machine. It will not bend. solidworks 2020 install
Look at that cylinder. It is perfect. It is yours .
Do not open it yet.
You have a concept. It’s a messy, beautiful tangle of fillets, extrusions, and complex lofts living only in your head. To bring it into the physical world, you need a forge. For millions of engineers and designers, that forge is SolidWorks 2020.
Now, create a new part. Draw a circle. Extrude it 1 inch. Before you draw your first extrusion, go to
If you see the dialog with the blue background and the little house icon, you have succeeded.