- [Instructor] Whenever you open a drawing in SolidWorks.
There's several different modes you can work in.
So the most basic of these modes is called Resolve, right?
And what that's going to do,
is it's going to open the drawing
and then whatever's in that drawing
whether it's an assembly or individual parts
it's going to go look on your file system
for where those parts are supposed to be and open them up.
And if there's a change
it's going to take that information
and it's going to resolve it
and bring it into who the latest drawing.
So we have all the information you need.
Now, the next mode below that is Lightweight
and it's pretty much going to do the same thing.
It's going to look at the file system,
find all the parts of an assemblies,
and it's going to load them in,
but it's going to load them in lightweight
and it's not going to bring all the information.
It's just going to find it and kind of reference it.
But then if you want to actually work on that component
you do need to resolve it.
But what's cool is if you have like,
you know, 100 components in your design
or your assembly
and you're opening, them up all Lightweight
you can then resolve just like one
or two of them work on those,
and it's not going to affect everything
but the assembly's going to spin around
and you can work with it a lot easier
because everything else has been loaded Lightweight.
Now, noticing both Lightweight and Resolve mode.
You have the option of like loading hidden components.
You can use a speed pack, which will speed up.
You know, if you want to bring like a circuit board
it has like a thousand components on it.
You don't really care where those components are.
You're not going to work on the components.
You just want to use it as a reference.
You can create a speed pack for that.
So a couple options there
samely like large assembly settings.
You can change things in SolidWorks.
So when you open a really big assembly
it applies certain things.
It makes it go faster.
So you can turn these things on or off
in Lightweight to Resolve mode, right?
So you can, you know, flip the difference
between the two of them.
But if you go over here to Detailing mode that goes away.
So, Detailing mode is almost like a PDF, right?
It's opening just the drawing.
It's not going to look at the file system at all, right?
And what is cool about that?
It is you can take that drawing
and you can send it to somebody else you're working with.
They can do some work on it.
They can send it back to you.
You can do whatever you want with this drawing
but nothing's linked to the individual parts yet,
you have to kind of relink it.
So when you go back and resolve that drawing again
it's going to go look and say,
'Hey, you know, there's some changes that happen
in the Detailing mode.
Let's go ahead and apply those changes
back to the final drawing.'
So that's pretty much what Detailing mode is used for
is just quick and easy way to open a big drawing
with a bunch of components on it
without having to load them all up.
And you could have again,
move it around but to different people.
And you only have to transfer just that drawing
you normally if you're going to send a drawing to somebody,
if you just send the drawing
it's going to try to open up all those files.
It's not going to find them.
It's going to say, 'Hey I can't find the parts
assemblies it's a mess.'
So then you have to do like a pack and go,
you like pack up all those parts assemblies
send it with the drawing and then they can open it
and they have to send all those things back.
You know, that's a lot of work, right?
So it's not a lot easier just to send just the drawing.
And that's what Detailing mode allows us to do.
So right over here, let's go ahead and open up that drawing.
You can see here at the top of the screen
when you're in Detailing mode
it's giving you heads up, says, 'Hey, you're in this mode'
and you can do things like viewing, printing,
and exporting, you know, from this mode, you know?
And you can also look at the limitations here.
It's going to give you a little heads up
of what you can do with this mode.
And, you know, you can do things
like adding dimensions and things like that.
I mean, like,
you know, a lot of things are available in this mode
that you can do.
So like add a dimension, sure, right?
And go up here and we can say, save, right?
Save the file.
And there you go, okay?
And when you're done, you just exit out of the file, right?
And if I jump back in
and try to open it again
and notice over here
I'm opening it just from the recent documents.
If I look in this little arrow here
it gives me option to jump into Lightweight, Detailing.
So the same things are available here, right?
So, if I were to go to Resolved and say open
now it's going to bring in those changes
automatically link everything back together.
And here's to my file.
So it's not perfect, you know?
But it does make things a little bit easier to work with.
They're great if you're just going to like print a document
and notice over here, this is showing up as not connected.
So you might have to rebuild it for this to come in,
and actually happen correctly.
But it's definitely like
if you just want to print a big document,
you want to go, you know, bring and load everything in.
This is definitely the way to do it
or if somebody sends you a document
or a drawing like this
and they forget to attach all the other parts,
you know, in the assembly,
you just want to see what's going on in the drawing
Detailing mode is definitely a great way to do that.
So definitely keep in mind Detailing mode
when you're working with larger assemblies,
with a lot of components
and you just wan to do something quick like printing
or reviewing the documents.
That's the mode for you.