Lesson goal
Act on dozens of features or annotations in a single operation.
4 videos
1 exercise
Intermediate
Prerequisite: Modeling basics learning path
1. Watch the videos
Dassault Systèmes videos hosted on MySolidWorks: they open in a new tab and a free account is enough. Watch them in order.
Utilities: Power SelectSelect features in bulk by type and act on them in one go.↗ Utilities: Find, Modify, and Simplify FeaturesFind features by criteria, modify them or create a simplified configuration.↗ Utilities: Feature PaintCopy the properties of one feature to others, in the same part or elsewhere.↗ Utilities: Find and Replace AnnotationChange a text string in every annotation of a drawing.↗
2. Key takeaways
Power Select selects by type: all fillets, all holes, all faces of one color…
The Simplify tool suppresses small features in a dedicated configuration, useful before a simulation.
Feature Paint applies the parameters of a reference feature to other features of the same type.
Replacing text in annotations saves you from fixing a note by hand in every view.
Tip
Before a simulation, create a simplified configuration without fillets under 1 mm: the mesh will be lighter.
3. Do the exercise
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