The part editor, laid out like SolidWorks

Laid out from 77 sourced references on how SolidWorks arranges its window (docs/research/solidworks-ui-references.md). Only positions and names were followed: the icons, colours and code are our own.

Ribbon: Features · Sketch · Evaluate tabs under a full-width band of large icon-over-label buttons. Left pane: FeatureManager, PropertyManager and Display tabs, a Filter field, and the tree in SolidWorks' order (Front, Top, Right Plane, Origin, then features). A command or sketch opens its PropertyManager there, with OK / Cancel at the top and in the corner of the view.

The view toolbar runs, left to right: zoom to fit, zoom to selection, previous view, section view, view orientation, display style, hide/show, then select, rotate and measure. The status bar shows the part and what you are editing, one short prompt, the sketch coordinates and definition state (Under defined · 4 DOF), the part's mass and size, viability, MMGS and zoom.

The sketch PropertyManager edits the selection. For a line, edit its length, angle and end points, or for a circle, arc, point or polygon its own values. Existing relations are listed and Add Relations offers only the ones that fit. Typing 60 into a line's length is one sketch undo step.

Gone while a part is open: the floating mass chip, the viability pill, the bottom dock, the help bubbles and the How to and Next lists, and the previous product's title block and callouts. One-pager and Deck move into Export. Other workspaces are unchanged.

Not yet: sketch definition marks in the tree, History and Material folders, Zoom to area, scene and appearance in the view toolbar, and selection breadcrumbs.