Welcome to SolidWorks Design Checker
SolidWorks Design Checker verifies design elements such as dimensioning standards, fonts, materials, and sketches to ensure that SolidWorks documents meet pre-defined design criteria.
SolidWorks Design Checker is available in SolidWorks Professional and SolidWorks Premium only.
SolidWorks Design Checker has the following modules:
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Build Checks. Use this tool to set the requirements for evaluation. The requirements are saved in a file with a .swstd extension.
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Check Active Document. Use this tool to validate your document.
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Check Against Existing File. Use this tool to validate the active document against design checks created from existing files.
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Learn Checks Wizard. Use this tool to retrieve design checks based on attributes from an existing SolidWorks part, assembly, or drawing document.
To add SolidWorks Design Checker to SolidWorks:
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Click Tools, Add-ins.
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Select SolidWorks Design Checker 
, then click OK.
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Click Tools, Design Checker.
You can also access the Design Checker tools 
from the Tools toolbar.
From the Welcome to SolidWorks Design Checker dialog box, access the following:
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Create a New Standards File. Build a new .swstd file.
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Open an Existing Standards File. Browse to a .swstd file to check an active document.
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Design Checker Help. Opens the help document with table of contents and index.
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Design Checker Tutorial. Opens a tutorial that teaches you the basics about SolidWorks Design Checker.