Design Clipart
Design Clipart allows you to find and reuse
many entities from SolidWorks, DWG, and DXF files.
How Design Clipart Works
Design Clipart, using SolidWorks File and
Model Search 
, searches specific folders, finds and dissects
files, and extracts data that you can reuse in SolidWorks.
Parts are dissected
into features (extrudes and cuts), sketches, and blocks.
Features are dissected
into sketches.
Drawings are dissected
into general tables and blocks.
DWG/DXF files are
dissected into tables, blocks, and views.
The source files are not changed when Design
Clipart dissects them.
Using SolidWorks Search |
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The images created during dissection are displayed as thumbnails in
the Search tab  when
you do a SolidWorks
Search for Files and Models.
Drag the thumbnails into SolidWorks files to recreate the dissected entities. |
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In the Search results, select
a dissected file thumbnail and click  in the context toolbar
to view a thumbnail of the dissected entity in the Search
results pane.
The SolidWorks Search box displays the search path
to the entity. In the Search pane,
entities are filtered by Kind
and Search Locations.
For example, if you select Boss-Extrude1
in the image shown, another thumbnail of dissected Sketch3,
appears in the Search results
pane.
The path to the extrusion appears in the SolidWorks Search box. |
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To use Design Clipart to immediately dissect an individual
file:
Use SolidWorks Search for Files
and Models to find the file.
On the Search
tab, double-click the file's thumbnail image
A prompt appears asking if you want to dissect
the file.
Click Yes.
The file opens, file dissection runs, and
the file closes. Thumbnail images of the dissected entities appear in
the Search pane.
To use Design Clipart with SolidWorks Task Scheduler:
Create a dissection
folder and place files to dissect there.
Click Options
, File Locations.
In Show folders for, select Search Paths. Add the dissection folder
under Folders and click OK.
Click Options
, Search,and
select Schedule dissection daily to automatically
dissect files in search paths.
Set a Daily
Start Time and Daily Stop Time
to run the Design Clipart dissection (default is 11p.m. start).
Task Scheduler runs the dissection task at
the scheduled time.
If a daily dissection is
missed by over two hours, Design Clipart does not try to run that same
scheduled dissection the following day. For example, you set the dissection
start time to 11p.m., but you power down the computer at 6p.m. When you
power up the computer the next morning at 9a.m., the missed 11p.m. dissection
from the night before does not run.
To reuse Design Clipart entities:
Dissect a file using individual dissection or
Task Scheduler.
Run a SolidWorks Search to find a Design Clipart
entity.
Open a model into which you want to add the entity.
Drag the entity into the file.
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