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Solidworks is a very beginner friendly program, people of have never used the program can open it up and start using it with little trouble. If you have never used a Computer Aided Design (CAD) program before solidworks has a great build in tutorials. After running though these quick well written tutorials you will be ready to start CADing any simple parts.
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- A good website to learn tricky or advanced solidworks features is http://www.solidworker.com It has tutorial video that steps you thought several tricky solidworks maneuvers such as: Putting Threads on a Shaft or working with sheet metal.
- Penn State University has a course devoted to the use of solidworks called "EDSGN 496A". http://www.hvswug.org/edsgn-496a.html
- Penn State Also has a Happy Valley SolidWorks User Group. Which is an organization that brings together solidworks users of all skill level together and holds lectures with solidworks professionals from around that area. http://www.hvswug.org/index.html
- A few other websites to consider looking at when you get stuck are: http://www.cadd-works.com/ and of course http://www.solidworks.com/