SolidWorks Legion

Line Styles: Random Appearance

Random Line Styles Author: Matthew Lorono

Source: SolidWorks Legion

Three line styles for SolidWorks that have a random appearance. To use this file (after downloading and unzipping):

1.Open a document in SolidWorks, such as a drawing template.

2.Goto Tools pulldown>Options…>Document Properties>Line Style. This brings up the Load Line Sytle(s) dialog.

3.Click on Load button.

4.Click on the … button. This brings up the Open dialog.

5.Navigate to location of the “RandomLine.sldlin” file and open. This returns back to the Load Line Style(s) dialog.

6.Highlight all of the line styles (SHIFT is necessary to multi-selection in this window).

7.Click on OK.

For this document, you will now have access to these new line styles.

Download RandomLine.zip

SolidWorks Help is being updated frequently based on user feedback

SolidWorks Help is being updated on a regular basis. The primary source for the frequent updates is user feedback through the Feedback on this topic link that you can find at the top of each help topic of the Web Help. SolidWorks appreciates user this feedback. For more information on some recent updates, please check out this posting on the SolidWorks Forums:

Recent Enhancements to SolidWorks 2013 SP2 Help in Response to User Feedback

What’s New in SolidWorks 2013: New capabilities of Exploded Views

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Multiple exploded views per configuration

In assemblies and multibody parts, the ability to create multiple exploded views for each configuration is now available. As before, each exploded view appears under the specific configuration in the Feature Tree at the Configurations tab. Now, multiple exploded views can appear as a list under each configuration . This means you now longer need that the old workflow of having to maintain separate configurations for separate exploded views, even when the configurations are otherwise identical.

This functionality is also now supported in eDrawings.

Copying exploded views

Additional power has been added to exploded views and configurations where you can use normal windows Copy-and-Paste functions (CTRL-C/CTRL-V) to copy and paste exploded views between configurations! To do this, highlight an exploded view in one configuration and hit CTRL-C. Go to another configuration in the same assembly, and hit CTRL-V. Easy!

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Supersonic Ping Pong Balls

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