{"id":348,"date":"2012-07-09T10:13:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T09:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/?p=348"},"modified":"2013-05-09T14:06:44","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T13:06:44","slug":"solidworks-tip-part-review-instead-of-rollback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/07\/solidworks-tip-part-review-instead-of-rollback\/","title":{"rendered":"SolidWorks Tip: Part Review Instead of Rollback"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>With the 2012 version SolidWorks nearing the end of its release, and 2013 beta available for download and testing, I thought I&#8217;d mention a new add-in that SolidWorks snuck in to the 2012 release called the Part Reviewer.\u00a0 Like most users, I totally missed this one during my normal new feature gleaning of each annual release of SolidWorks.\u00a0 So what is the Part Reviewer and how does one use it?<\/p>\n<p>In short the Part Reviewer is a more user friendly way of seeing how someone created a model in SolidWorks.\u00a0 It&#8217;s really an alternative to rolling back in the feature tree and having to constantly drag the rollback bar up or down.\u00a0 It provides you the ability to step through each feature one at a time or to play through all of them is succession.\u00a0 Any comments a user has added to the features are also neatly displayed in the Part Reviewer.<\/p>\n<p>The Part Reviewer can be easily turned on via the SolidWorks add-ins menu.\u00a0 Once enabled, it adds a tab to the SolidWorks Task Pane. Open a part file and click the Next or Play buttons to start reviewing your part.\u00a0 At any step, you can interact with the model just as you would had you used the Rollback option in SolidWorks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-vamQ1BxOzWg\/T_ME35SDl5I\/AAAAAAAAAAo\/go6bOEP73zM\/s1600\/PR1.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-vamQ1BxOzWg\/T_ME35SDl5I\/AAAAAAAAAAo\/go6bOEP73zM\/s640\/PR1.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"348\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I think there are some nice things SolidWorks could do to enhance the Part Reviewer even more, so provide your feedback in the discussion forums.\u00a0 There is a link to the Part Reviewer forum in the Task Pane when you pull up a new model for review.\u00a0 They also have many sample parts you can download and review.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this short video for a more detailed look at the Part Reviewer and enjoy this alternative to rolling back.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i1-I1xIIQ8U\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Brian VanderPloeg is an Applications Engineer at Fisher\/Unitech, a SolidWorks Value Added Reseller with locations across the Midwestern and Northeastern United States. He is a regular contributor to the Fisher\/Unitech blog.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the 2012 version SolidWorks nearing the end of its release, and 2013 beta available for download and testing, I thought I&#8217;d mention a new add-in that SolidWorks snuck in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[19,23,37,25],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solidworks","tag-cad","tag-design","tag-hints-tips","tag-solidworks-2"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1062,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/1062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}