- [Instructor] The use of markups in SolidWorks
has been greatly improved with SolidWorks 2021.
And if you've ever used eDrawings or even a PDF
and marked-up a PDF with hand drawings,
you can easily see those tools are pretty much similar
to what you're going to see here in SolidWorks.
So jump over here to the Markup Toolbar.
If you don't have it turned on, right-click
and come over here to Tabs and click on Markup.
Make sure that toolbar is turned on.
Come over here and click on Markup.
Now you've got a few different tools here.
You've got a basic drawing tool. You've got eraser tool.
You had a select tool and you've got a typing tool.
So if you just want to make an arrow,
you can change the color of your arrows.
If you want something like this,
you can say, "Here's my arrow."
You can make notes over here.
You can also type notes.
So if you want to put a typed note over here
and says, "Change size," or something like that,
so you can add these.
This is your note or your markup you're going to add here
and when you're done with this markup here,
click on the X out of that one,
so you have it over here and notice over here,
we have this little folder called Markups.
You can control it down,
you can see that's my first markup there.
And notice if I spin this around, that goes away.
You don't see it anymore,
but if you click on that markup
and double click it,
it'll bring it right back to where you were
so you can see what's going on.
So if you're collaborating with somebody else,
maybe you're the supervisor
and somebody else is working below you,
and you look at the design and say,
"Eh, I want to change this, this and this,"
you can make these markups and they're stored with the file.
So now, the other person comes in,
they can be clicking on each one of these markups.
Again, if I do another one over here,
I might say like, "Hey, on the bottom here,
let's make another markup."
I'm going to grab a color.
Let's say it's going to be this color here,
like a pink color and make some note,
whatever it is, right here, save that markup.
Then now, see I have Markup1 and Markup2.
If you click on Markup1, it spins back
to where it was before, you can see the notes you made.
Click on Markup2 and it spins back
over to the next one I have here
and you can have as many of these as you'd like.
This is very similar to what you see in eDrawings.
You can also save these.
So right-click on Markups over here
and you can see Insert Markup, of course.
You can see different things here
and then if you click on the markups themselves,
you can actually see Export the Markup.
And you can probably choose multiples
at the same time and see Export.
So export that markup.
And then it's going to ask you
where you'd like to save these as.
So I'm going to say, "Hey, let's go ahead
and just put it in this folder here,"
and click Okay.
There's my PDF.
It creates a PDF for us.
And let's go ahead, I'm going to try to open that up
and you can see exactly what's going to happen here.
I'm going to go into the file system and grab that one.
And again, I'm going to pull over to that screen here
and you can see exactly what's going on.
So here's my markup right there.
If I scroll down, you can see my second markup.
Obviously, there's not that much there,
but it's a quick and easy way to create these documents
and then send them to a coworker.
They can see exactly what's going on
without even having SolidWorks,
or if you jump into SolidWorks,
of course, you have access to all those, as well.
You can cross them off when they're done
and it really makes a great way to collaborate.
Of course, you can also use this with a PenTouch
if you have a touch screen,
but it also works with a regular mouse
and it's a really great feature
they've improved in this version of SolidWorks.