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I hope this part of the What’s New series gives you a better understanding of the new features and functions of SOLIDWORKS 2019. Please check back to the CATI Blog as the CATI Application Engineers will continue to break down many of the new items in SOLIDWORKS 2019. This is great for saving time when working in SOLIDWORKS PDM, because add-ins allow you to change read/write attributes on files without closing out of them first. The ribbon will allow you to use SOLIDWORKS PDM features such as check in, check out, change state, search, and get version directly in SOLIDWORKS Inspection. You might recognize this ribbon if you’ve used the Microsoft Office Integration or Draftsight add-ins in the past. From here, you will want to expand the “General” page, and check the box next to “ SOLIDWORKS PDM Integration” under “Add-ins”Īt this point, you should see a new ribbon added to the interface. To enable the SOLIDWORKS PDM Ribbon, navigate to the Home ribbon in the Stand-alone SOLIDWORKS Inspection application and click on “Options”. But seeing as it made its way into the What’s New Guide this year, we’ll give it some time to shine here. Back in 2018 SP2, SOLIDWORKS slipped this new ribbon into the Stand-alone SOLIDWORKS Inspection application. I’ll admit, this functionality isn’t exactly new in SOLIDWORKS 2019. By hitting cancel on the “Create File References” dialog box, they are not created, and they can be removed or modified at any time by checking out the parent file and going to the “Custom References” Link on the contains tab. Ultimately, these references are the same as user-defined custom references. This will help keep your SOLIDWORKS Inspection files organized and save you from creating user-defined references manually. When exporting files from SOLIDWORKS Inspection into SOLIDWORKS PDM, you will now have the option to automatically add it as a reference to the SOLIDWORKS Inspection Project File (for Stand-alone SOLIDWORKS Inspection) or the SOLIDWORKS Drawing file (for the SOLIDWORKS Inspection add-in). The SWICustomProperty block will behave like the SOLIDWORKS Custom Property block, allowing you to read/write custom named attributed to and from SOLIDWORKS Inspection Project files.
This includes six predefined Read/Write attributes: Part Name, Part Number, Part Revision, Document Name, Document Number, and Document Revision. The SWIPrjProperty block will define mapping for the SOLIDWORKS Inspection Project Properties.
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This new update will allow for mapping into two SOLIDWORKS Inspection blocks: SWIPrjProperty and SWICustomProperty. Here is a closer look into the capabilities of these three new components: With all these new tools, SOLIDWORKS Inspection users will start to see the same ease of use as SOLIDWORKS, Office, and Draftsight users in SOLIDWORKS PDM. This will include variable mapping, reference management, and a new SOLIDWORKS PDM ribbon in the stand-alone SOLIDWORKS Inspection application. With the introduction of SOLIDWORKS 2019, SOLIDWORKS Inspection users will now have integration with SOLIDWORKS PDM.