From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2020 Essential Training

Markup view - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2020 Essential Training

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Markup view

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- [Instructor] If you have a pen or touch device like this Cintiq tablet, or maybe a laptop with a touch screen, you have the ability to add markup to your parts and assemblies and it's a pretty cool tool that's been added for SOLIDWORKS 2019. Let me show you how to turn it on. Now for some reason SOLIDWORKS decided to kind of hide this and I don't entirely know why, but let me show you. If you click over here at the top screen, we're going to go ahead and show the bar. Hidden Tree Items, click on that, and then come down here to Hide/Show Tree Items. Now down here at the bottom, you can see Markups. Click on Automatic and change that to Show. Click on Okay and now we have that right over here in our toolbar. Now if you want to make a markup, go ahead and just orient your part however you'd like. So, I can use my touchscreen and move around the screen, I can zoom in or zoom out, or place it wherever you'd like in the screen so that you're ready for that markup 'cause whatever that orientation is, that we create here, is going to stay inside of your markup drawing. All right, now click on Markups, and we're going to say Insert Markup View. Click on that and make sure we're in the pen mode. Now, I can change the type of pen I have if you'd like to, or just go ahead and start drawing. So I'm going to draw directly on this markup view. I can change things, maybe like defining a size or maybe specifying a hole, like change to eight, to eight, something like that. You can just add this information just like you would, maybe, doing a red-line drawing on a regular sheet of paper, but it's going to be saved with your actual markup inside of SOLIDWORKS. All right, we can also erase things. If you write, draw something on here, you don't like it, just go ahead and erase it out. You can switch over here to finger mode, so if we want to draw something on the screen, not erase something on the screen, actually draw something, turn that mode on with the pen mode and we should be able to draw now on the screen. So pretty much anything you want, if you want to put an arrow, something like that, you can use your finger but I prefer to use the pen. Now if you want to create some type of a typed information you can do that very easily as well. So I'll say something like add, and when you're done it's going to be stuck there to your tooltip. And when you're done just go ahead and hit Esc on your keyboard. When you're done with your markup, go ahead and exit out of that sketch and out of your little markup drawing, and now you can see over here under Markups, if you twirl down you can see Markup3. Now of course if you go back to your regular design, if you spin it around, that markup kind of hides, it goes away. But if you come back roughly to that view, you can start seeing it and as you zoom in, you can see it again. You can also click over here on Markups and you can see Orient, and it'll bring you right back to the original view or the angle you were looking at when you created that markup. Now you can add as many markups to your part or assembly as you'd like and they'll all show up right over here under the Markups, and this makes it a really great way to collaborate with your team. Maybe you have a manager who's reviewing your work and he might just want to make a few red-line markups to your part or your assembly, and then when you come back to work the next day, you can take a look at these and modify them as needed.

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