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Ensure Correct Drawings with Design Checker in SOLIDWORKS

Ensure Correct Drawings with Design Checker in SOLIDWORKS

Design Checker is a great feature in SOLIDWORKS Professional and Premium that can check a SOLIDWORKS file against a set of standards to help ensure consistency. The neat thing about it is that it has the ability to automatically correct many of the problems it finds. Using Design Checker involves two basic steps.

– Build the standards file (the “good” stuff)
– Check a document

SOLIDWORKS Design Checker tool

The standards file can be based on a published standard like ANSI or ISO, developed from an existing file or built item by item. I’ll explain the basic process to define the standards file using the Build Checks option.

  • In SOLIDWORKS go to Tools > Design Checker > Build checksSOLIDWORKS Design Checker
  • Select Create a New Standards File
    SOLIDWORKS Design Checker
  • There are tabs for the different kinds of checks.
    SOLIDWORKS Design Checker
  • Each tab has a list of the different checks that can be made. For example, the Dimension Checks tab has these things that can be checked:
    SOLIDWORKS Design Checker
  • Select a check to make from the list. Each check will have various options that can be selected. For example, for Arrow Style under Dimension Checks select the style of arrow and location or chose to use the document settings.
    SOLIDWORKS Design Checker tool

For each check, select how critical it is: Critical, High, Medium, or Low
SOLIDWORKS Design Checker tool to correct designs
When all checks are developed, save the checking standard.

To check a document using SOLIDWORKS Design Checker:

  1. Open the file to be checked in SOLIDWORKS and go to Tools > Design Checker > Check Active Document
  2. If you want to use one of the published standards just check the appropriate box. To use a customized standards file, click on the green plus and browse to the standards file to add the saved standard to the list.
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  3. Select the “Check Document” button to begin the check
  4. Results – The coloured circles correspond to the criticality set up in the standard. Expanding each node will list each found error instance. Clicking on the result will highlight it in the graphics area. The results can be saved out in a report by clicking the diskette icon in the upper left corner.
    Design checker in SOLIDWORKS
  5. Each problem can be corrected individually by clicking the Correct Selected button. Or you can also select Auto Correct All which will fix what it can. There will be some, though, that must be corrected manually such as overlapping dimensions and misspellings.

This is just a brief introduction to Design Checker. Try out the tutorial. Review the Help to learn other ways to build the standard such as using an existing document to build the check. Design Checker can even be run using Task Scheduler to check multiple documents or can be added as a task during a workflow transition in PDM.

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