Hello!
My first thread here. Still learning Blender an searcing the net for good tutorials 
We have a 3D-modeling course at school and we use Solidworks.
We can also have a 1 year student licence but the student kit doesn’t include Photoview 360 render.
That course is only about modeling no rendering. I decided to try rendering with cycles.
I found this: https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/54270
Works fine with the latest Solidworks version 2012-2013.
An exercise:
Model this
.obj to blender
and playing with materials
