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SOLIDWORKS Composer Tech Tips and Tutorials for creating technical documentation
SOLIDWORKS Composer Silhouette Styles: Crest, Per Actor, and Model
By Sarah Taylor on December 29, 2025
When creating technical illustrations in SOLIDWORKS Composer, selecting the right display styles is crucial for conveying technical information. In the Technical Illustration Workshop, showing silhouettes adds clean, distinct outlines to the model views. There are…
SOLIDWORKS Composer Image Distortion – Strange Artifacts and Triangles
By Keily Grubaugh, CSWE on April 9, 2025
Have you experienced an issue with SOLIDWORKS Composer image distortion where some components have strange artifacts upon opening an assembly?
Panel Assembly Instructions using SOLIDWORKS Electrical & Composer
By Sawyer Gara on September 20, 2024
This blog explores how combining SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematic, SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D, and SOLIDWORKS Composer can provide a cohesive view of electro-mechanical assemblies, enhance design accuracy, and streamline the creation of assembly instructions and technical documentation.
How to publish SOLIDWORKS Composer content in a PDF document
By John Lee, CSWE on June 25, 2024
SOLIDWORKS Composer content can be published in a PDF document in three different formats: Universal 3D: This format displays as 3D data. SMG: displays an SMG file in an embedded SOLIDWORKS Composer player. Preview image:…
How to Copy a Property’s Value Across Selected Views in SOLIDWORKS Composer
By John Lee, CSWE on June 14, 2024
In SOLIDWORKS Composer, maintaining consistency of properties across multiple views for entities like actors and cameras can be challenging, prompting the need for a method to achieve uniformity without manual editing.
Learn how SOLIDWORKS Composer and PDM can help users creating technical documentation work smarter with revisions and approvals.
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SOLIDWORKS Composer does not support mates like SOLIDWORKS, and SOLIDWORKS mates are not transferred to Composer during the import process. Mating relationships between actors must be re-created in Composer. Learn more about SOLIDWORKS Composer Kinematic…
Importing Hidden and Suppressed Components into SOLIDWORKS Composer
By Sarah Taylor on May 16, 2023
When working in SOLIDWORKS, components can be “removed” from an assembly by either Suppressing or Hiding them. In SOLIDWORKS, Suppressing a component takes it out of the assembly, including the calculation of mass properties and mate positions,…
Access and control backup file options in SOLIDWORKS Composer
By Vipanjot Kaur, CSWP on January 30, 2023
SOLIDWORKS Composer stores a backup of the original document before any changes are saved to the file. It is one version before the last saved version of the document. SOLIDWORKS Composer Backup file settings/options can…
How to hide and show a BOM in SOLIDWORKS Composer Animations
By Vipanjot Kaur, CSWP on February 26, 2021
SOLIDWORKS Composer geometric actors or collaborative actors such as a BOM can be shown or hidden in an animation. If once the actor is hidden it will remain hidden throughout the animation and if we…
How to create Multiple Animations from a SOLIDWORKS Composer Assembly
By Vipanjot Kaur, CSWP on February 17, 2021
SOLIDWORKS Composer is used to create the technical documentation or animations referring to the various processes such as assembling components. There is always a need to create multiple animations from the same composer assembly such…
How to Speed Up a SOLIDWORKS Composer Animation Export
By Vipanjot Kaur, CSWP on February 10, 2021
SOLIDWORKS Composer can often take an extended amount of time to export animations as MP4. The main cause for the slow processing is due to the number of animation keys within the animation key track….
Copying or Moving animation keys in SOLIDWORKS Composer
By Vipanjot Kaur, CSWP on February 2, 2021
While working with a SOLIDWORKS Composer animation, there could be cases when we have to copy or move the animation keys from one time-frame to another. Maybe there is a need to copy the location,…
Greetings, users of SOLIDWORKS Composer! In our previous article we explained how to access the Help for SOLIDWORKS Composer. In this article, we explain how to get the keyword search function working in the Help. …
Controlling the Display of Hidden Edges in SOLIDWORKS Composer 2021
By Vipanjot Kaur, CSWP on November 20, 2020
Now in SOLIDWORKS Composer 2021, the visibility of hidden edges can be controlled, when we select or highlight elements. We can define the colour and intensity used to display hidden edges whereas this wasn’t possible…
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