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SOLIDWORKS Drawing
SOLIDWORKS Drawing Tech Tips and Tutorials from Javelin experts. Learn about the best practices and procedures for creating and managing drawings more effectively with SOLIDWORKS software.
How to apply All Uppercase to SOLIDWORKS Dimensions & Hole Callouts
In SOLIDWORKS 2020, you can set the dimension characters or hole callouts to show as all uppercase characters in the…
Overlay Configurations in Alternate Position View with SOLIDWORKS 2020
With SOLIDWORKS 2020 you can now overlay two configurations of a part in a single view in your part drawings…
Using the SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal Bounding Box to create Flat Pattern Data
Several times in my career I’ve had rush jobs that need an estimate right away, or, the material might be…
SOLIDWORKS VBA Macro Code to Save Drawing as a PDF
Usually when we want to speed up process tasks in SOLIDWORKS, we tend to search for Macros that can do…
How to Align Breaks in a SOLIDWORKS Projected View with a Parent View
A customer recently contacted me with a strange situation: they were unable to drag the breaks in a SOLIDWORKS projected…
How to automatically create a SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal Flat Pattern Configuration
If a job can be automated in SOLIDWORKS and reduces the amount of time it takes to create I say…
How to change the SOLIDWORKS Drawing background appearance
While model-based definition (MBD) is gaining momentum in industry, many companies currently rely on drawings, which brings us to this…
How to link SOLIDWORKS Drawing Sheet details to a PDM Data Card
In SOLIDWORKS PDM we can map SOLIDWORKS Drawing Sheet details directly to a Data Card, making the information easily accessible…
Creating a Checklist for Dangling Dimensions in Drawings using the SOLIDWORKS Design Checker
One of the most common drawing questions that users ask if there is a way to list all the dangling…
How to include SOLIDWORKS files in the SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional Content Search (Updated)
After enabling the content search in SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional, by default the Windows Search Service supports indexing the following files…
SOLIDWORKS Compare and DrawCompare Tools
SOLIDWORKS Compare gives you the ability to find slight differences between two models. Perhaps you receive an updated model back…
SOLIDWORKS Spell Checker
SOLIDWORKS can check the spelling of the words in your document notes, dimension text, and drawing title block using a…
SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard vs Professional
In a previous post we talked about SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard which is included with SOLIDWORKS Professional and Premium software with…
SOLIDWORKS Drawing Open Progress Indicator
The SOLIDWORKS drawing open progress indicator introduced for SOLIDWORKS 2019 provides insightful information about the status of operations when a…
How to set default values generation for new sheets in a SOLIDWORKS PDM Drawing
New in SOLIDWORKS PDM 2019, when you add new sheets to a checked-out SOLIDWORKS drawing file, SOLIDWORKS PDM generates default…