From the course: Learning SOLIDWORKS xDesign

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- [Instructor] The most important part of the xDesign GUI is the toolbar. This is where you actually find all the features and functions that you need to create your part. Starting from left to right, we have the Sketch tab, Features tab, Surfaces, Assembly, Design Guidance, Tools, Manage, Marketplace, and View. We're going to take a look at all of these tools as we go through the next section of the course, but you're going to be doing a lot of work, starting in the Sketch tab, and then moving on into the Features, and Surfaces, and then Assemblies as your designs mature. Over on the right-hand side is more of the analytical and auxiliary performance things that you'll need with your designs, whereas the design part of it really starts from Design Guidance and over to the left. You'll always find this toolbar at the bottom. If you want to hide it you can just click on the little arrow down there, and then just hover over the white arrow to bring it back up, just toggling back and…

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