It’s also easy to share CAD assemblies, with all the necessary references wrapped up in a zip file, utilizing the Export Template option. The external user clicks a link to a web page from which the file can be downloaded. You can password-protect the link and also set an expiration date. An internal user with the proper rights can simply right-click on a file and share a web link via an automated email or copy a link and paste it into an email. Sharing live file data with external stakeholders is now much easier with the new Share File feature.
This flexibility enables manufacturing engineers to easily create structures tailored to the way products are built.įor copying Bill of Material items from one product to another or for ease in working with multiple records simultaneously, SOLIDWORKS Manage now has modeless windows so that you can access multiple property cards simultaneously. Sub-assemblies can be dissolved, which replaces them with their child items. New features such as Cut, Copy, and Paste enable line item changes at the current level (and at any lower level). (Previously, the Promote option was not recognized.)Įditing and rearranging Bills of Materials is significantly easier than before. Now you can view hierarchical Contains and Where Used relationships in treehouse mode, which displays the relationships in a flowchart-complete with thumbnails and other file information-making it easier to visualize the relationship structure.Īnother enhancement in the display of file relationships is in the Bill of Materials, which now recognizes all the Bill of Materials Options settings for SOLIDWORKS configurations. Viewing relationships among files has gone graphical! For example, you can access the View Layout toolbar to control the layout of the vault view. This also frees up space to show the standard Explorer commands in the Windows Explorer menu bar.
You can now add quick access commands such as Check out, Check in, and Get Latest Version directly to the Quick Access Toolbar. Here are some of my favorite upgrades to the 2021 release. This includes SOLIDWORKS PDM Standard, SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional, and SOLIDWORKS Manage. The many enhancements of the 2021 release of SOLIDWORKS desktop data management products make it even easier to manage your data while freeing up more time to design great products.