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With DraftSight 2019 users now have the ability to add formulas to their tables,  just like one can add in a spreadsheet program. This feature is available in  DraftSight 2019 Professional, Premium, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus. Use the formulas in the cells with Arithmetic Operators and Sum, Average and  Count. Sum - Used to calculate the sum of the values from the defined cells. Average - Used to calculate the average of the values from the defined  cells. Count - Used to Count the number of defined cells. A formula should always start with the equal sign (=). To start with, you need to insert a Table in to your drawing. To do so, click on  the Annotate Tab and select Table from the menu. Once you have inserted your table, you can populate it to suit your needs.  In the example below, I’ve created a small table showing Door  Types, Quantity, Price and Cost. The Cost column for door is specified in column C4 and the value for each row  in it i...

Have we ever imagined how many workman hours we lose in trying to Reuse the Data which is supposed to be saving the time and money instead of losing them? It includes time spent on,  Searching right version of the data among many file versions created by our team members.  Finding missing references of data.  Recreating the File/Folder structure.  Maintaining Filenames/Folder names. The losses may sum up nearly the savings we make from data reuse. Hence it needs a system that is as much effective as possible to ease the pain and improve the Return of Investment spent on maintaining and reusing the older project files. The system we are proposing for this data reuse is SOLIDWORKS Product Data Management. Being a proven data management solution, SOLIDWORKS PDM provides excellent data management and reuse tools like Search tools, copy tree, Branching and Merging. SOLIDWORKS PDM Search Tools: The initial time-consuming process in data reuse is r...

The Property Tab Builder is a stand-alone utility that you use to create a customized interface for entering properties into SOLIDWORKS files. Traditionally, designer's use to modify the drawing template to insert custom property such as Description, Part No, Material, it’s a manual method. so, designers have to modify the custom property or metadata on each time, simultaneously BOM creation is also manual which increases a run time and errors in BOM table. It's also delayed the release of entire project. Three ways to create a customized interface for property template. In the SOLIDWORKS software, on the Custom Properties tab in the Task Pane, click Create now. In the SOLIDWORKS software, on the SOLIDWORKS Resources tab of the Task Pane, click Property Tab Builder From the Windows Start menu, click All Programs > SOLIDWORKS version > SOLIDWORKS Tools > Property Tab Builder version. To create the property tab, you will need to first create a new fil...

Latest DraftSight Offerings DraftSight helps users to create new drawings and access or edit existing DWG files with a strong CAD solution that meets their 2D and 3D DWG file needs. DraftSight provides a far better 2D drafting and 3D design experience for engineers, architects, and construction service providers (AEC), also as professional designers, CAD users, makers and manufacturers. This product is brought to you by Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE company, and provides flexible offerings for users to choose from:       DraftSight   Standard       DraftSight   Professional       DraftSight   Premium       DraftSight   Enterprise       DraftSight Enterprise   Plus DraftSight Standard Capabilities For individuals who required a straightforward 2D CAD drafting solution with a well- known interface.  Draw tools to make basic elements like lines, pol...