Draft Quality Views

Here comes my favorite super specific SolidWorks behavior so far:

  1. open assembly lightweight
  2. convert to drawing with at least one pre-defined view
  3. Click on one view
  4. under Display Style there is a radio button option: Draft quality or Hight quality
  5. after changing to High quality this button disappears
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Things you cannot see, while model is in the Draft quality Display Style:

  • line styles of model edges won’t show up (thickness, color etc.)
  • after changing it to the High quality Display style they show up

Now here comes the best part:

  • If you load the model resolved, the pre-defined views are automatically set to the High quality Display style
  • if you manually insert a model view of the lightweight model, the view is automatically set to the High quality Display style

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