SolidWorks 2010 Bible

Chapter 6: Getting More from Your Sketches

FIGURE 6.14

The Sensor PropertyManager

In addition to turning Sensor alarms on or off, you can also suppress Sensors when they are no

longer needed or to improve performance.

Sensors are a great way to keep an eye on particular values, such as wall thickness or clearance

between parts. You can use a Sensor to monitor any value you want to monitor but don’t drive

directly.

Metadata for sketches

Metadata in SolidWorks is non-geometrical text information. Metadata is particularly helpful as

keywords in searches as well as in Product Data Management (PDM) applications. If you don’t use

metadata within your CAD documents, it can be easy to forget that it is there at all.

The sources for storing metadata in SolidWorks files are

l Sketch and feature names

l (^) Sketch and feature comments (access comments via the RMB menu)

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l (^) Design Binder documents
l Tags for features (located on Status Bar in the lower-right corner)