Convert to High Quality Views

You can schedule tasks to convert the views in SOLIDWORKS drawings from draft quality to high quality.

Draft Quality

Only minimum model information is loaded into memory. Used in Lightweight drawings. Some edges may appear to be missing, and print quality may be slightly degraded. You can annotate views in draft quality without resolving the model.

High Quality

All model information is loaded into memory.
You can specify one or more files or folders, but you cannot specify both files and folders in the same task.

Creating a Convert to High Quality Views Task

To create a Convert to High Quality Views task:

  1. Click Convert to High Quality Views on the sidebar, or click Tasks > Convert to High Quality Views.
  2. In the dialog box, type a new title for the task or leave the default in Task title.
  3. Select the files or folders you want to convert:
    • To select files:
      1. Under Task files or folders, click Add File.
      2. Browse to the file to convert, then click Open.
      3. Repeat steps a and b to select additional files.
    • To select folders:
      1. Under Task files or folders, click Add Folder.
      2. Browse to the folder that contains the files to convert, then click OK.
      3. Repeat steps a and b to select additional folders.
      4. If you do not want to include subfolders, clear Include subfolders.
      To delete a file or folder from the list, click its number in the leftmost column, then click Delete.

Scheduling the Task

To schedule the task:

  1. Under Task schedule, set:
    Option Description
    Running mode Specifies how often the task runs. Select Once, Daily, Weekly, or Monthly .
    Start time  
    Start date  
  2. Click Advanced if you want to change task options such as backup file location and time-out duration.
  3. Click Finish.
    The task and its title, scheduled time, scheduled date, and status appear in the Tasks panel. The status of the task is Scheduled.
    To run a scheduled task, your computer must be on at the scheduled start time. The SOLIDWORKS Task Scheduler window does not need to be open. If your computer is off at the scheduled start time, the task runs when you turn your computer on.

    At the scheduled start time, the task is initiated. If the task acts on more than one file, a sub-task is generated for each file. If you selected Backup task files in Task Options, a backup copy of each file is saved to a .zip file. Then a drawing is created for each file. When the task completes, the status changes to Completed.

    After the task completes, click Completed to see the SOLIDWORKS Task Scheduler Report.
    If your backup files include Unicode file paths, use a zip file extraction application that supports UTF-8 encoding.