- [Instructor] If you have a pen or touch device,
you have access to use what we call markup.
And markup inside of SolidWorks is a little bit hidden,
and I'm not sure why they decided
to kind of hide this behind the scenes,
but it's a pretty cool thing you can do.
And it's especially handy if you have a pen device.
So let me show you how to turn it on first.
So if you go over here to the Feature manager,
if you right click at the very top of your Feature manager,
and you get this thing called Hidden Tree Items.
And if you go down here, it says Show.
Or, sorry, Hide/Show Tree Items, click on that.
And down here at the very bottom of that is Markups.
So if you click on Automatic,
you actually just want to say Show.
I want to show markups. Click OK.
And now it shows up right here in the Feature manager.
So if you right click on the Markups,
you can say, Insert Markup. Click on that.
And now you get this little sketch or Markup toolbar,
which it looks a very similar to your Sketch Ink toolbar.
But the Markup toolbar is allowing us to kind of markup
what we have here.
So we have the option of changing the color.
We can choose drawing, erase,
and then we can even type in some notes.
So if I switch over here to my Wacom tablet,
I can then go over here,
and I can start drawing on the screen and I've got pink.
And I don't like that.
So let's say, hey, let's go over to the eraser,
get rid of the pink.
And let's say, yeah, instead of pink,
let's go ahead and make it blue.
I want to make it a little bit smaller, for instance.
And then head back over here to Draw.
And now I can draw a nice blue arrow here.
I can make some notes.
I could say, you know, change to something like eight holes.
I can define, you know, dimensions.
I can do anything you want here in this Markup view, right?
If you want to switch over here to a note,
you can then click and add a note.
Like, "hello", you know, whatever you want.
Obviously, it'd probably be more useful to have some,
a better note, but that's a note.
Or you can add whatever you want here.
Now, this is very similar to what you'd see in eDrawings.
When you're done, go ahead and just exit out.
So I'm going to switch back over here to my mouse,
and I'm going to exit out of the Markup view.
So as soon as I zoom out and turn, guess what happens?
That mark kind of hides. It goes away, right?
'Cause I don't see it anymore, but it's still there.
And it's under this Markups folder.
So here's Markup1, if you click on that,
it spins your model around right to where you were,
and you can see the notes you've added to the design.
Now you can have as many of these as you'd like.
And the cool thing about this,
especially if you're working with a team of people,
you might have somebody reviewing your work,
and they can just make some quick markup changes
or some suggestions on your design
without actually changing your design.
Then you can come back and start looking
through the different markups you have over here
and checking them off, say,
"Hey. Did that, did that, did that.
I changed this from eight to 12 or whatever it is."
And it's just a great way to actually work
or collaborate inside a SolidWork.
It's very similar what you might see inside of eDrawings
in as far as making some notes, but it's all here.
You're right inside of SolidWorks.
And if you right click on it,
of course, you can then check these off. You can delete.
You can do all the kinds of things with the Markup view.
And I'm not sure why SolidWorks decided to hide markups
'cause they're pretty cool.
But definitely take a look and play with those tools.
They are very useful for collaborating.