3DVIA Composer Plug-in for SolidWorks: How to Configure Default Export Settings?

For those users of 3DVIA Composer that periodically need to ask a SolidWorks designer to export files into the native Composer file type, this tip is for you!

This is a very specific scenario where the users of SolidWorks do not have 3DVIA Composer installed on their machine, but they do have the Composer plug-in installed to allow them to export their SolidWorks files to the native .SMG Composer file type.  In this scenario, the SolidWorks user has no easy way of customizing the export options that are used when creating the Composer file.  So as a result, things like file properties (metadata), could be missing or you may have surface bodies appearing in Composer, or solid bodies not showing.  In this case, it would be nice to be able to customize the options used for the export.  The answer is not an easy one unfortunately.  Reach out to your VAR and they can provide assistance.  There are some registry settings that we can supply to allow customizing these options.  When you contact your VAR, mention SolidWorks Solution ID #S-023057.

See image below for a view of the Composer plug in, in SolidWorks.

Composer Plug-in menu in SolidWorks