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SOLIDWORKS Explorer: Renaming files

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SOLIDWORKS Explorer: Renaming files

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- [Instructor] In this week's example I'm gonna be showing you an easy way to rename SolidWorks files. Now I have a comparison here between Windows Explorer over here on the right, and SolidWorks Explorer over here on the left, and both of these programs are very similar. They allow us to view through our documents. We can rename things, we can move things around, but SolidWorks Explorer has a few extra powerful tools built into it which allows us to rename things which will automatically update the links of where those parts, or assemblies are used. Now let me show you the problem first. So over here in Windows Explorer I'm gonna go ahead, and change one of these files. So here's my assembly, and these are the individual files inside of that. Let's go down to this part right here, click on the name, and just add test to the end of it. So now we've changed the name inside of Windows Explorer. So, obviously, that's very easy to do, but that causes more problems down the road. So I…

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