In the SolidWorks application, each part, assembly, and drawing is referred to as a document, and each document is displayed in a separate window. (Each drawing document can contain multiple drawing sheets, though.)
The main section of the window, where the model or drawing is displayed, is the graphics area.
The left panel displays the FeatureManager design tree, the PropertyManager, and the ConfigurationManager.
You can have multiple part, assembly, and drawing document windows open at the same time. Also, you can have multiple views of the same document visible at the same time with New Window, by splitting the graphics area display, or with viewports.
To arrange the windows, you can drag them by their title bars, and you can resize them by dragging a corner or border. Also, from the Window menu, you can select Cascade, Tile Vertically, or Tile Horizontally or viewports.
To gain as much space as possible in the graphics area, use the Full Screen Mode, which hides the menus, status bar, Task Pane, and FeatureManager design tree area. You can toggle visibility of all open toolbars and the FeatureManager design tree area separately.
To organize your SolidWorks window, you can minimize
open documents. Click Minimize
in the upper right corner of the document border. An
icon appears in the lower part of the SolidWorks window. If the icon is
not visible, it may be behind another open document. Resize any open documents
as necessary. Click Window, Arrange
Icons
to arrange them at the bottom of the SolidWorks window.
An asterisk (*) beside the document name in the title bar indicates that the document has changed since it was last saved.
Click Window, Close All to close all open documents. You are prompted to save any unsaved documents.