These intermediate Mechanical tutorials are meant to accompany you during your onboarding project. They are not meant to hold your hand during the onboarding process. Instead they are meant to show how Solidworks has a multitude of tools that can be used in many different ways to solve the same problem. Hopefully, by the end you are not only more comfortable in Solidworks, but also a more confident engineer.
### Tips from a Former SW Newbie
Solidworks is not a text book it is a tool box
***Solidworks is not a text book:** Solidworks, Robotics at Maryland, and Engineering as a whole favors doers rather than book worms. Project based work can be extremely punishing to traditional students who are used to understanding a topic through books and lectures before practicing it. DO NOT STUDY SOLID WORKS USE SOLID WORKS. Every 1 min you spend in the modeling software is worth 1 hour of tutorial videos.
***Solidworks is a toolbox**
Push yourself in the first 1-2 hours of modeling
## Tools for Comfortable Solidworks
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## External Resources
* Best Solidworks Tutorial Series:[ SOLIDWORKS 2022 Essential Training](https://www.linkedin.com/learning/solidworks-2022-essential-training/learn-3d-cad-modeling-using-solidworks-2022?resume=false&u=41910388) by Gabriel Corbett on Linked-in Learning
***Explanation:** This tutorial series is formatted more like a reference book rather than a lecture series. You can easily navigate to a
