- [Instructor] In this example
I'm going to be showing you the compare documents tool
under the Evaluate toolbar.
If you don't have Evaluate toolbar turned on
always just right click on any one of the available tabs
at the top of the screen, right click on it
and say turn on Evaluate.
So, here it is.
If you come over here to compare documents
you can see here I can launch that
and I'm looking at the two reference documents.
I have them already open, but here is the first one
which is 1.7a and the other one is 1.7b.
Now, I've made a couple of small adjustments
between these two parts, here.
But, sometimes, you might be working on
a design that has very small, very intricate
things that you might easily overlook
and you want to see what changed in the design over time
and you can compare these two documents very easily
using this tool and you can probably find things
you would never find otherwise unless
you spend a huge amount of time comparing them manually.
We have a couple options.
One is, we can compare the document properties.
The second one is we can compare the features
between the two parts.
We can also compare the geometry between the parts
and we can align them using their global coordinate system
or some other coordinate system, if we choose to
and we can even come down here and do the build materials
if it was an assembly or something like that
and you had multiple parts in that assembly
but in this case here it's grayed out
so we can't do that.
So, first, select all these items you want
and you can do all of them or none of them
but I'm going to use all three of these,
we can look at all the different studies
and the different comparisons between
the different parts.
Hit Run Comparison, here we go.
The very first tab, here at the very top of the screen,
is the document properties.
So, you can see, here, the size of the document in kilobytes
One is a little bit bigger than the other one.
Last saved date.
The face count, the mass, the volume and so on
it's all listed here.
Now, this is not, probably, the most relevant information
but, you know, when you last saved the document is great,
the size of the document, these are good things to compare
when parts change.
The next little tab at the top of the screen, here
are the individual features.
So, you can see, here, we've got
a couple things that are unique.
This fillet and that cut extrude
are the things that I added to this design
and it just lists it out for us, which is great.
It also happens to be highlighting these features.
Here they are down here, being highlighted.
That fillet is different and over here
the little box or this little cutout
on the bottom of the part, those are two things
that I've added to the part and it makes it
really easy to see what those changes are in the design.
Next little tab at the top of the screen, here,
is the compare geometry result.
Similar look, here, and if I click on the
individual eyes, here, so I want to see this
notice it highlights it in blue, over here.
I'm going to go ahead and turn the common volume off
so I'm only seeing the extra material.
If I spin one part, it spins both of them,
so that makes it really easy to see what's happening here.
So, that is the material to remove.
I can also turn on the material to add,
so I need to either add these features here
to this part or remove it from that part so they'd be equal.
If you don't want them to be equal,
you just want to see what's actually happening
these also are great tools
to illustrate both of those things.
If you turn the common volume on,
it shows what's similar between the two parts
and you can turn the other ones off as well.
So, that is what those tools do.
You can also do a face comparison.
Let's go ahead and turn those off.
Going down here to face comparison,
you can see, it kind of highlights both of them
with a different colors,
which faces have been modified and which ones have not.
So, a bunch of different, great tools
to compare documents, and, like I said,
this is a pretty simple example
but you can really get into depth
with very complicated models that have had
a lot of changes done from one to the next
and it can really illustrate, very easily,
what those changes are.