SOLIDWORKS - External References

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Learn how external references are created and how they can be used to increase your performance in SOLIDWORKS. Quick Tip presented by Tyler Young of GoEngineer.

[@mikepowell9639]

Too bad you never actually show how to make an external reference...

[@Norman_Peterson]

Learn how external references are created and how they can be used to increase your performance in SOLIDWORKS.
and the tutorial? where is????

[@uddinna]

Can you show us how to create the external reference?

[@goengineer]

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[@weinanyong214]

Good day. thank you for your good video.
In SW in assembly mode, we can get the external reference from other part file into our modelling part file through sketches.
1) how about other external reference like Coordinate System CS, Plane and Surface?
2) how about in part mode, can i directly import those external references? (or only able to do it in multibody part?)
can do it between part to part sharing without assembly or not. multibody i consider as assembly since we need to assembly.
I am looking for the feature can allowed "sharing information between part to part", in order to achieve top-down modelling in SW. is almost 2 weeks time, i still cant figure it out in SW.
remarks: previously i am other cad system user.

[@kandasamyrajan]

Thanks you for the explanation.

[@rajeshdakuri508]

Bro I need reference books for SOLIDWORKS please help me with that

[@bigbaboo-3937]

I have an assembly that won't let me select edges from a different part. Are there conditions that would cause this?

[@goengineer]

Hi Bigbaboo D,
As you use "Edit Part" to edit the part in the context of an assembly there is an option on the CommandManager (top toolbar) called "No External Reference". If this is set you might be barred from making external references for parts in this assembly.
Also, you might be barred from creating an external reference between parts of an assembly if the part you are editing already has an external reference within another assembly to another part as well.

[@bigbaboo-3937]

so you can only make external references to 'one' other part? seems sort of limiting...

[@goengineer]

You can make as many external references in a part as you like within a single assembly. If you now take that same part and put it into a distinctly different assembly that is a bad idea because now parts are the geometry are now controlled by geometry that is not in that new assembly.
Generally speaking, external references should be used only sparingly when no other method is sufficient to define geometry.

[@kurtisfledderus2171]

Have you tried switching to wireframe display?

[@murtazaz.latiwala773]

The video has good tips
But Mann why are you whispering can you use a good microphone or speak loud.