The objective of this lesson is to help a new user become familiar with and the 3DCS workbenches and toolbars. All icon functions can also be found under the 3DCS menu.
Start 3DCS. The 3DCS workbench can be found by going to the Start menu then Analysis & Simulation and select 3DCS Variation Analyst.
Open the completed Lesson 6 Manual Gear Shifter Asm from the Completed Lessons folder. The default location of the Completed Lessons folder is:
C:\Users\Public\Public Documents\DCS\3DCS_V5_8_1_0_4\Tutorials\V5SWMCNXCREO \Completed Lessons
The location of your Completed Lessons folder may be different depending on how 3DCS was installed. For this lesson, we will explore the completed model. In the following lessons, we will build the model from scratch.
•Select the 3DCS tab from the ribbon if not already there.
•Click 
Load 3DCS.
•Click 
Update Model.