Checking a Document

Now that you have created a requirements file, you can run the file against a SOLIDWORKS document to see if the document meets your requirements.

  1. Download and extract the sample files for this tutorial:
    1. Click here to download advdrawings.zip to your Downloads folder.
      For more information on downloading and managing sample files, see Sample Files.
    2. Browse to the Downloads folder and extract advdrawings.zip to a convenient location.
      For example, to organize your tutorial sample files, create a folder in your Documents folder named tutorial_files. Then extract into that folder to create a subfolder named advdrawings that contains a SOLIDWORKS drawings file named FoodProcessor.SLDDRW.
    3. Open FoodProcessor.SLDDRW.
  2. Click Tools > Design Checker > Check Active Document.
  3. On the Design Checker tab in the Task Pane, click Add Standards , browse to tutorial.swstd, then click Open.
  4. Select tutorial in Standard files and clear all other selected standard files.
    This option lets you check your model using one or more *.swstd files. Make sure that only tutorial is selected for a standard file.
  5. Click Check Document.
    The Design Checker runs the requirements file against the drawing and reports only the failed tests.
    Failed Checks are organized by criticality level: Critical, High, Medium, and Low. Because you did not assign any criticality levels to the checks, all are set to the default, High.
  6. Expand each check and select the failed entity to see the failing parameters and values:
    • Dimension's Units Setting Check. This check failed because two dimensions do not use the document's settings.
    • Drawing Document's Standard Template Check. This check failed because:
      • Sheet4 uses A3 - Landscape instead of c - Landscape.
      • Sheet1, Sheet2, and Sheet3 do not reference the c - Landscape format from the correct directory path.