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Already fluent in SolidWorks, Fusion or Onshape? Map what you know onto the Recipe, parameters, selectors and history, then set up a keyboard-first workflow.
Where each familiar concept lives in Solid Vibes: feature tree, equations, mates, configurations, rollback, drawings, and the places the model is deliberately different.
Every piece is built from a list of plain-language steps. Learn to read it, edit it, and use it to understand any model, including ones you did not make.
Name the numbers that matter, tie the others to them with formulas, and your model becomes a family of designs you can reshape with a slider.
Where sketch relations, equations and design intent live in Solid Vibes: formulas that define geometry, rule checks that guard it, and what sketch constraints currently do.
The constrained sketcher: enter sketch mode on a plane or face, draw with inferred constraints, see what is still free (blue), fully defined (black) or over-defined (red), fix conflicts, drag, trim, offset, mirror, pattern and fillet corners.
Dimension a sketch with one tool: click one or two items and place the label; type a number, a formula with parameters, or name = value to create a parameter. Driving vs reference dimensions, and how dimensions show up in the Recipe.
Recipes never store face or edge indices. They store semantic queries. Here is the selector vocabulary, why it survives upstream edits, and how to debug an empty match.
Every piece is also readable code, editable both ways. When to use script view, and the small set of edit types that describes every change anyone, human or agent, can make.
How History works in Solid Vibes: versions that save themselves at the right moments, Restore and Compare for any version, alternatives for trying ideas without risk, and releases that freeze what you sent to the factory.
Solid Vibes saves a version for you when you accept an AI change, before an export, a print or a share link, and at the end of a long editing session. What gets saved, when, and how to give one a name.
How to bring geometry in from SolidWorks, Fusion or Onshape, build on top of it, and send exact solids back out to a shop or a colleague.
The command palette finds any command, page or help article from the keyboard. Plus the shortcuts worth learning on day one.
How power users work: palette for commands, terse prompts for edits, parameters by name, and a layout that keeps the model central and your hands on the keys.