Rob Jensen’s Blog

I’m sure most (if not all) of you have had to edit, open, change or fix another person’s SolidWorks part, drawing or assembly.  I get the chance to do this every day as a CAD administrator and I always find a certain feature or part that makes me think “What in gods name was this person thinking?”  That’s were leaving a comment is very helpful.

Comments can be added to items in the FeatureManager design tree (assemblies, components, features, sketches, and so on) in the manner of Post-It® notes. You can include a date and time stamp in text comments.

To add a comment, right-click an item in the FeatureManager design tree and select Comment, Add comment.

The Comment box will pop-up and you can start typing  text. 

You can also add the current date and time by clicking the  Date/Time Stamp.

Click Save and Close.

So how do you view these Comments??  Well,there are a few ways to view Comments.  If you hover over the Part, Feature or Drawing View it will pop-up.

You can also view all the Comments in the Model, Assembly or Drawing in the Comments folder int he FeatureManager.

So the next time to add a empty model in your assembly for a BOM, or model something way out in left field, do your fellow co-workers a favor and add a comment.

The reason I haven’t been posting anything is that my wife gave birth to our second child on March 23rd.  We were planning on having the baby in April, but he wanted to come out a little early I guess.  Aiden Robert was born at 2:44am on March 23rd. 

Now, a new baby is a lot of work.  But having a 20 month old daughter and a new baby is a challenge at times.  Zoie will be 2 in July.  My wife Lisa and I wanted our kids to be close, but maybe not that close..:-)

So, being the great husband that I am, I took a few weeks off work to help out at home.  Zoie loves her new brother and I couldn’t be happier..!!  I’m truly blessed to have 2 beautiful children and a wonderful wife.  I’ve been a little tired and its been really crazy around the house, but it’s well worth it.