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Adding Comments in SolidWorks

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.