{"id":934,"date":"2006-10-23T18:32:10","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T22:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.org\/whats_changed"},"modified":"2013-07-18T12:35:26","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T12:35:26","slug":"whats_changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2006\/10\/whats_changed.html","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many times in the course of modifying designs you look at two versions of a design and wonder\u2026. \u2018\u2026these look exactly alike \u2013 what\u2019s changed?&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You could have kept a log of changes in the Design Binder or if you use PDMWorks you could have noted what changed when you checked the new version into the vault. But, in the rush to \u2018get the job done\u2019, these tasks often get missed.<\/p>\n<p>Not to worry! SolidWorks Utilities \u2018compare\u2019 features provide the ability to view differences between designs. These compare utilities include:<br \/>\u2022 Compare Documents. Compares the properties of two SolidWorks documents (including two configurations of the same model or different PDMWorks versions). You can compare two documents of the same type, or of different types. This utility identifies differences in file properties, document properties, and so on.<br \/>\u2022 Compare Features. Identifies differences in solid features between two versions of the same part. This utility identifies unique and modified features in both versions of the part.<br \/>\u2022 Compare Geometry. Identifies geometric differences between two versions of the same part. This utility identifies unique and modified faces in both parts. It also computes the common volume of the two parts (or assemblies) and the volume of material added and material removed.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=479,height=371,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/util.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Util\" height=\"77\" alt=\"Util\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/util1.jpg\" width=\"100\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> <br \/>These handy tools can save you from doing tedious forensic analysis of complex designs. To learn more about this capability simply review the SolidWorks on-line help topic \u2018SolidWorks Utilities\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Fielder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many times in the course of modifying designs you look at two versions of a design and wonder\u2026. \u2018\u2026these look exactly alike \u2013 what\u2019s changed?&#8230;\u201d You could have kept a log of changes in the Design Binder or if you<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2006\/10\/whats_changed.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":3446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solidworks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}