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Find and Replace Annotation is a built-in SOLIDWORKS tool. It finds and replaces text for a variety of annotation types in an open part, assembly, or drawing document. The Find and Replace Utility is part of the group of SOLIDWORKS Utilities available through the SOLIDWORKS Tools menu. Tools->Find/Modify->Find and Replace Annotation.

There are a lot of useful perks that are available when your SOLIDWORKS license is on active subscription. One of them is access to the SOLIDWORKS Knowledge Base through the Customer Portal. You can think of the Knowledge Base as an online library of information about anything SOLIDWORKS. It contains an extensive amount of information related to warnings and errors, the functionality of different parts of the program, etc.

Did you know you can compare non-Excel-based BOM's (Bill of Materials) in SOLIDWORKS? The BOM Compare tool is helpful to those who have multiple versions of an assembly and require the ability to compare the difference between two BOMs at a time. The Compare tool is located under Tools>Compare>BOM. Once open, you can select the Referenced Document and the Modified Document.

The end of the year is near! As we wrap up 2020, we are rounding up our top 10 SOLIDWORKS webinars presented by our team of Application Engineers. Webinars included in this list are on a variety of SOLIDWORKS products including Simulation, Inspection, SIMULIAworks, 3DEXPERIENCE, and general CAD tips and tricks.

The SOLIDWORKS Task Pane provides access to SOLIDWORKS resources, libraries of reusable design elements, views to drag onto drawing sheets, appearance utilities, and other useful items and information. The Task Pane appears on the right side of the SOLIDWORKS user interface and contains the following tabs:

We have all done it; clicked 'Undo' one too many times and the entire SOLIDWORKS sketch was removed. Search for the 'Redo' command and discover it is greyed out. Unfortunately, we must face the fact that the sketch is gone, and we now need to “redo” the work. Historically 'Redo' was limited to sketch commands. Although you could Redo many sketch functions, the sketch creation itself was not available for Redo.

3D ContentCentral® is a website that provides access to 3D CAD models from component suppliers and individual users in all major CAD formats like SOLIDWORKS. In the SOLIDWORKS Task Pane, click Design Library. In the Design Library, expand 3D ContentCentral. There are two subcategories: Supplier Content and User Library.

 

There may come a time when the NVIDIA driver for your video needs to be updated or a clean install needs to be performed to solve an issue. Luckily, this is part of the installation process and can be done while installing the new driver.

If you can't launch your SOLIDWORKS software, you may need to deactivate it. Get step-by-step instructions on how to deactivate SOLIDWORKS if it is still installed or not installed here. If SOLIDWORKS is still installed, Navigate to C:\Program Files\\setup\i386. (If you did not name the directory during installation, then it is C:\Program Files\SOLIDWORKS Corp\\setup\i386).