Solidworks mechanical design software offers unmatched performance, ease of use, and timesaving capabilities. It delivers leadership innovations and hundreds of customer-requested enhancements that allow getting product design work done more quickly and accurately. It enables one to work faster through unmatched performance and familiar windows functions like grag-and-drop, point-andclick, and cut-and-paste. With solidworks 2006 software, design data is 100 per cent editable, and relationships between parts, assemblies, and drawings always up-to-date. Features include: ease of use; reduced design steps; lessens visual clutter; minimizes fatigue with heads-up user interaction, a set of intuitive display and control functions; 2d-to-3d data integration and transition; edit and maintain dwg files in their native format with dwg editor tm, an editing tool that provides an interface familiar to autocad@ users; preserves the value of legacy data with the best available tools for converting 2d data to 3d, accommodating reusable 2d geometry; and enabling a smooth transition to 3d, including extensive help documentation for autocad users.