From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Tips & Tricks

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- One of my favorite things in Solidworks 2019, is the ability to mark up your parts and assemblies, directly inside of Solidworks. Now, for some reason, Solidworks decided to hide this behind a couple of different menus, but let me show ya, how to turn it on. Go up here to the top of your part or assembly, click on that. Now let's try it one more time here, click and hold. And come over here to Hidden Tree Items. Click on that, and then come down here to Hide/Show Tree Items, click on there. And down here at the bottom, you can see we have Markups. And it will automatically show up once you mark something up, but I want to turn that so it says Show. So I'm going to show those all the time, and now right here, I have Markups. So we click, and hold down on Markups, you can say Insert Markup View, click on that. And now we pretty much have, the Sketch Ink tools available to us, inside of our regular Solidworks environment. So I can do things like drawing some notes, directly inside of…

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