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Starting in SOLIDWORKS 2017, jagged outlines can be added to Detail Views and Crop Views. Jagged lines can be used for Break Lines in Break Views. After creating a Detail, Crop, or Section View, the option to change the style of the outline or break line is in the view’s PropertyManager.

This article will help optimize your SOLIDWORKS Toolbox to increase performance and customize it to your company’s standards. The Toolbox has over 1.5 million configurations of hardware, fasteners & structural members in 19 different world standards.

The Automatic Border Feature in SOLIDWORKS quickly allows you to create a border in your sheet format. You can control every aspect of the border, including grid size and layout. When using the tool, border zones automatically update. You can also add Margin Mask areas, where labels and dividers are not shown.

Complex features, like physically modeled threads, increase the rebuild times of SOLIDWORKS part files. Table 1 shows the rebuild times on a simple part with a thread created using multiple methods. This document will prove these rebuild times and explain the various methods used to create these threads.

 

 

 

Why might someone want to use display states in drawings in SOLIDWORKS? One good example would be when the user wants to illustrate an assembly view in such a way that makes one or more components stand out from the others in the assembly. This can be accomplished by employing a display state that adds color to the component(s) of interest.

Create a SOLIDWORKS Bill of Materials from your desired view. Hover over your BOM without clicking and then click the arrow plus sign icon in the top left corner as shown in the picture below to highlight all of your BOM. Then, without moving your mouse, right-click and go to Formatting. The under Formatting, select Entire Table.

Why is SOLIDWORKS opening a new session every time I launch a part from Windows Explorer? Well, there is this thing called SOLIDWORKS Launcher, you may have seen the name lurking somewhere around in your computer. This program is what decides which version of SOLIDWORKS to launch when a file is open. Usually, accidentally, SOLIDWORKS files get associated to be launched by SOLIDWORKS itself, not the SOLIDWORKS Launcher.

Have you ever come across the problem of having a flange on a sheet metal part in SOLIDWORKS? When an exterior flange is needed to have the ends of the flange mitered, it can be difficult to create that feature. Our goal in this quick tip is to produce something similar to this:

 

There are two ways to save a SOLIDWORKS file to be used in Adobe Illustrator. The easiest way is to orient the part or assembly how you want to view it, and under the File tab, select Save As… and change the file type to Adobe Illustrator Files (*.ai). This method will work but can often result in a file that is difficult to work with because the file carries over the color gradient into Adobe Illustrator.