Speaker 1: SOLIDWORKS Composer
is a 3D tool, which allows you
to repurpose your CAD data, to
create 2D and 3D graphical
content for use in publications,
such as instruction menus,
assembly guides, marketing
assets, sales, configurators,
and even training material. When
importing a new assembly into
composer is recommended to
select the appropriate inport
profile, depending on the origin
of the CAD data, Now in
SOLIDWORKS composer 2021, the
open dialogue gives you even
more control with direct access
to the configuration
information, of the parts or the
assembly. There are plenty of
great rendering styles built
into composer to get the right
look and feel for your final
documentation. Selecting the
flat technical display option
will be perfect for these
illustrations at the squares
robots, cleaning head brush
assembly for diving into the
rest of this project. There were
a few document properties worth
adjusting, navigating to the
file drop down menu solid works
composer 2021 offers additional
user settings to the selection
and highlighting options. You
can now allow for hidden edges
to be shown along with modifying
the color intensity just as
before colors can be set for
both part and the assembly
selection and model
highlighting. Previous versions
of SOLIDWORKS Composer have had
the ability to modify other
document properties as well.
Common changes include the
viewport background to remove
the gradient and adjust the
background color paper space can
be set to standard the document
sizes or in this case, just a
custom ratio of
16:9. Units can be modified from
metric to English or vice versa.
What's new in composer 2021 is
the ability to save these
document properties. This is
extremely helpful and working
with other systems updating
previous projects or
standardizing company-wide
document settings. The next step
for this replacement part
catalog is creating some views
for each different cleaner head
options. Composer offers quick
ways to hide and show components
with the right mouse button menu
pop up this case, hiding all of
the unselected components, just
leaving the desired cleaning
heads sub-assembly. New in 2021,
you'll see an updated user
interface that allows for
extended docking support of tabs
and windows moving the
configuration tab docking to the
right-hand side is a nice place
to access all of these
configurations that were bought
in during the import process.
Now with a new configuration
active, it's easy to create all
the additional required views
for this final document. In this
view, there are handful of parts
that are hidden. And when
selecting this assembly
configuration, see the only
visible components are
highlighted. New in SOLIDWORKS
2021 is the ability to toggle
this visibility on and off, and
the system preference by
enabling the option, highlight
in the viewport, invisible
actors, belonging to the
selection with this option on
you'll receive direct visual
feedback of hidden and shown
components with each of your
selections, each variation of
the cleaning head sub-assemblies
need their own exploded view. No
problem with SOLIDWORKS Composer
from this
view, all of these cleaning
blades can be selected. The
advanced selection tool and a
single click using the explode,
transform perfectly positions,
each blade, and finally with
predefined styles for callouts,
all the part numbers, and
descriptions are automatically
defined and formatted. Jumping
ahead, the completed project new
for 2021 is the ability to host
and share a native SOLIDWORKS
composer file directly on the
3DExperience platform. This
allows for the interactive
content to be viewed through any
web browser on any device.