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The existing ability to add Comment to models has been enhanced. It is easier to view and edit models based on the Comment over the life-cycle of a product's design. Turning on Comment Indicators You can turn on comment indicators in the Feature Manager design tree display to locate the Comment more easily. To turn on comment indicators: 1. In the Feature Manager design tree, right-click the top node. 2. Click Tree Display > Show Comment Indicator.   Visual indicators appear in the Feature Manager design tree to indicate if a comment exists. Adding Standalone Comment You can add standalone Comment that are not attached to a feature or node in the Feature Manager design tree. When you add a comment to a feature, a time-stamp is added automatically to the comment. To add standalone Comment: 1. Right-click Comment folder in Feature Manager design tree.   2. Click Add Comment. 3. In the Comment box, type the comment and click Save a...

SOLIDWORKS  provides the Engineers with a Valuable development for mold designing, with a feature called Advance Hole. This best feature is been brought as an enhancement in the 2017 version of SOLIDWORKS  for creating complex multi diameter holes. Previously, many features were used in the design interface for making a Single callouts. The designers had to define the exact callouts in Drawings for manufacturing operation. The advance hole feature offers designers in customizing holes within SOLIDWORKS  while creating Manifolds & Holes.This feature allows the user to define hole types with combination of counter bore ,countersink,straight and tapered selections. Designers can also indicate Advanced Hole Position using dimensions, sketch tools, sketch snaps and inference lines. Also, the Advanced Hole tool provides options to add, update, save, delete or load holes from the Favorites toolbar. Benefits Creating Multiple ho...

SOLIDWORKS 2017 introduces some great new capabilities that make the design process even more productive. Even the simplest looking design can be visually complex and hard to interpret, due to high amounts of internal detail. SOLIDWORKS 2017 delivers a great new capability for increasing visual clarity, when working in a section view. Now the sectioned geometry of any component or body can be displayed transparent, enabling you to maintain complete visualisation of geometry hidden by the section plane. Using the new property manager option, simply select the components, and set the level of transparency, now it’s even easier to interpret complex designs. It’s often necessary to have to model the physical Threads on holes and shafts, for applications such as digital simulation and 3D Printing . SOLIDWORKS Thread feature is a great time saver for modelling Threads in one quick and easy to use command. New for SOLIDWORKS 2017, the Thread Feature now provides the option...