SOLIDWORKS Save As
If you go to the trouble of saving a SOLIDWORKS part as a neutral file format in order to remove ALL feature data from your model then you will find that modern releases of SOLIDWORKS can save you a few steps with the new “Convert to…
The Scale feature (found by selecting the Insert menu, Features, then pick Scale) can be used to change the scale of all features within a single part. When used, this tool appears as an extra feature in the Feature Tree. However, this feature is limited to use…
A simple but very welcome improvement that has been made in SOLIDWORKS 2020 is the file type list in the Open and Save As dialog boxes. In previous releases, if you needed to open a non-SOLIDWORKS file, when opening the file type drop list, you…
SOLIDWORKS 2020 assembly performance has been improved when working with older version files. Previously, components not upgraded to the latest release caused longer open and save times. This was more noticeable when referenced components had multiple configurations. In SOLIDWORKS 2019 and earlier, only the “master”…
Recently, a few customers have contacted me to report that their SOLIDWORKS Save as dialog box is missing the description field? When saving a part, assembly, or drawing document, you can add a description for the file via the Save As dialog box as shown…
SOLIDWORKS Composer data can be published into various external tools such as a PDF, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and HTML. Sometimes when you want to show your content to other users who do not have Composer or the Composer Player installed on their machines, publishing…
“SOLIDWORKS Save as” saves your already existing part/assembly/drawing, with a new name, and replaces any references made to the original file with that of the new file. “SOLIDWORKS Save as Copy” saves your already existing part/assembly/drawing, with a new name, but breaks all references to…
How to replace SOLIDWORKS Sub-assemblies with Multi-Body Parts while maintaining Drawing References!
As design evolves within SOLIDWORKS we find many customers have a desire to swap sub-assemblies for multi-body components. We could spend some time in this article to discuss why I think this may not be the best idea in regard to overall SOLIDWORKS performance, however…
Here at Javelin we are witness to a wide variety of ways that customers manage their custom property data. Often, we also get to see which of those values become the most important details to a project. Some versatility that SOLIDWORKS offers us in regard…