Print screen tip from within SolidWorks
0 Comments Published by innovasys on Monday, 10 December 2007 at 13:18.
Most people are familair with the Print Screen key that exists on most keyboards and this is a quick way to capture your windows screen and copy it to the clipboard.
Alternately you can hold down your key while clicking the Print Screen button to have only the currently select Window copied to the clipboard.
The Screen capture icon in SolidWorks behaves much like the Print Screen with key but it excludes the SolidWorks user interface and only captures the SolidWorks window (viewport).
This can be a tremendous time saver, especially when needing to quickly capture a view of your SolidWorks model and paste it to another document or to a photo editing program like PhotoShop.
The Screen Capture function can be found in SolidWorks 2007 and later just underneath Menu/View at the top of your SolidWorks interface
Alternately you can hold down your
The Screen capture icon in SolidWorks behaves much like the Print Screen with
This can be a tremendous time saver, especially when needing to quickly capture a view of your SolidWorks model and paste it to another document or to a photo editing program like PhotoShop.
The Screen Capture function can be found in SolidWorks 2007 and later just underneath Menu/View at the top of your SolidWorks interface
Many times in the course of modifying designs you look at two versions of a design and wonder…. ‘…these look exactly alike – what’s changed?...”
You could have kept a log of changes in the Design Binder or if you use PDMWorks you could have noted what changed when you checked the new version into the vault. But, in the rush to ‘get the job done’, these tasks often get missed.
Not to worry! Use SolidWorks Utilities (Part of Office Professional) to ‘compare’ features and provide the ability to view differences between designs. These compare utilities include:
Compare Documents. Compares the properties of two SolidWorks documents (including two configurations of the same model or different PDMWorks versions).
You can compare two documents of the same type, or of different types. This utility identifies differences in file properties, document properties, and so on.
Compare Features. Identifies differences in solid features between two versions of the same part. This utility identifies unique and modified features in both versions of the part.
Compare Geometry. Identifies geometric differences between two versions of the same part. This utility identifies unique and modified faces in both parts. It also computes the common volume of the two parts (or assemblies) and the volume of material added and material removed.
These handy tools can save you from doing tedious forensic analysis of complex designs. To learn more about this capability simply review the SolidWorks on-line help topic ‘SolidWorks Utilities’.
You could have kept a log of changes in the Design Binder or if you use PDMWorks you could have noted what changed when you checked the new version into the vault. But, in the rush to ‘get the job done’, these tasks often get missed.
Not to worry! Use SolidWorks Utilities (Part of Office Professional) to ‘compare’ features and provide the ability to view differences between designs. These compare utilities include:
Compare Documents. Compares the properties of two SolidWorks documents (including two configurations of the same model or different PDMWorks versions).
You can compare two documents of the same type, or of different types. This utility identifies differences in file properties, document properties, and so on.
Compare Features. Identifies differences in solid features between two versions of the same part. This utility identifies unique and modified features in both versions of the part.
Compare Geometry. Identifies geometric differences between two versions of the same part. This utility identifies unique and modified faces in both parts. It also computes the common volume of the two parts (or assemblies) and the volume of material added and material removed.
These handy tools can save you from doing tedious forensic analysis of complex designs. To learn more about this capability simply review the SolidWorks on-line help topic ‘SolidWorks Utilities’.
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