From the course: Learning SOLIDWORKS PDM
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Where used? - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: Learning SOLIDWORKS PDM
Where used?
- [Instructor] In the other videos we touched on the where used tool just slightly, but at this point I want to jump back into Windows Explorer and SolidWorks and see how we can leverage all the available options and the where used tool on SolidWorks PDM. So let's start an Explorer here. I've selected a part in one of my assemblies that's just a flange, a custom flange for a pressure vessel. So you can see when I go to the where used tab, this is used in a drawing and used in a couple other assemblies and other drawings. As I go across all of these categories, I can see if it has any warnings or if the other parts have warnings, what configurations they're set in, or quantity, version, and you notice I can sort by all of these. Who's got it checked out, where it's checked out. So this'll give me the physical location. What folder it's found in, and then last what state it's also in. So if we go back to the other side here, we can see that we can also change versions. So if you have…
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