When using SOLIDWORKS Composer, you may have wondered what exactly a hotspot is and how to use it. First, let’s look at what we can do. The hotspot will be set as a group of components (or even just one) that will link to an action item.
You can share custom styles with other SOLIDWORKS Composer users. This helps ensure that annotations and other collaborative actor’s appearance won't change when opened by different users. To set this up, it will require manually editing file locations for custom styles in an XML file since this cannot be changed through the Composer user interface. Below is an outline of the steps that will be followed.
When creating a new PDF from a SOLIDWORKS Composer document, a few steps need to be taken first. This article explains how to complete this initial setup and publish the document.
Have you ever had technical documentation that was out of date simply because it was too hard to update all of the images? Did you know that Microsoft Word is capable of creating associative links to image files? Using SOLIDWORKS Composer in combination with Microsoft Word will allow us to update technical documents when that inevitable design change occurs.