Solidworks Dimensioning Question

It would be appreciated by several of us Solidworks students if someone
in this
Forum could tell us if there is a consistent way to display dimensions
of a model after the model is completed and assembled.
We have a model of a machine part that is finished, colored and all,
and would like to show several dimensions of certain sliding members of
it, along with the finished model.

Thanking you in advance,
Karen and Classmates

 

Make a drawing. That's what drawings are for.

 

Actually, we do know what drawings are for, sir, the drawings obviously
have been made, in order for the model to be finished, wouldn't you
say? We are looking for a way to show dimensions to a person viewing
a completed model maybe in the jpg format, or maybe someone like a
Client, who may not know Solidworks, nor have the ability to roll back
the design tree to the sketch in order to see what the actual
dimensions are.
We also know that there is a way to do what we are asking, and now you
make me wonder why Solidworks would go through all the trouble of
including that ability in their code when all the while, "that's what
drawings are for".
Your obviously smug attitude, and acid like reply is very discouraging
to those of us who may or may not have the level of skill that you seem
to think that you have. I am wondering, were you born with the knowlege
that you now have, or did you perhaps depend on books, and trial and
error, and maybe have the privalege of belonging to a Forum such as
this, where most here politely attempt to help one another by sharing
their skills, and it being a given, that some of us have a lower level
of skills than others?

Thank you for your reply,
Karen and classmates

 

too funny.

you must have missed the sign on the door ... the one that reads; "don thy
flame suit" or "grow extremely thick skin" before entering this news group.

3 options that may or may not help.
- save as eDrawing (model or drawing)
- save as jpeg (model only)
- save drawing as pdf (drawing only)

then again, i may be missing your goal.

 

SolidWorks Students,

Tick was just messing with you. Don't take that seriously.

If presentation or graphical communication is your goal, I would
encourage you to look into using the SolidWork's eDrawing format, as
this prolly will give you what you are looking for. You can even save
an eDrawing as an executable, so your end user doesn't have to install
anything on their computer.

Matt
http://sw.fcsuper.com

 

Here's a possibility..
On a part model file, the first item in the feature manager (FM) is
Annotations. If you right click it, you can check "Display Annotations" and
also "show feature dimensions".
If those aren't adequate, you can add dimensions in the same manner as when
in a drawing, and sometimes you must do this instead of using feature
dimensions because of clutter.
On an assembly model, same thing, except the "built-in" dimensions" from
sketches, etc need to be displayed on each component within the assembly.
Here too, you can add any dimensions you need at the assembly level.

hth
bill

 

The best advice, like the best meat, is cooked and served on a sharp
stick.

SW drawings are a great medium to accomplish what you wish. Place
views on a blank drawing with no format that show the what you wish to
convey. Place dimensions as you need. Notes, GDT, etc. at your
discretion. You can even use shaded views. Cross-sections until
you're blue in the face. Details, magnification, whatever. Then save
your drawing to any one of a number of formats (JPEG, PDF, TIFF) for
use in presentations and other documents.

 

Thank you all for your response. The "annotations", and their use,
are exactly what we are looking for. Most of all, we remain grateful
that your messages were not delivered by means of a sharp stick.
Karen and Classmates