Pro Tip: CAD Checker

As you work to make sure that your CAD models are

good and you're learning how to check the quality of your own

work,

it's really valuable to know that there's

a tool that can help you,

and it's called the CAD Checker. And how do you get the CAD checker?

Well,

first of all,

you come up here to the app store,

and in the app store

you type in the word "checker"

and we see what comes up when we do that.

There is the CAD Checker produced by the people who create Onshape.

You can just click on this,

get it downloaded into your Onshape.

It's free.

Once you do that,

you see this little box down here called the CAD Checker.

And one of the beauties of the CAD Checker

is that there are two really important evaluations you can do with the self-check.

You can compare your model properties to a reference.

So, if I have provided you,

for example,

a solution file,

you can type in the URL,

not type in,

you can paste in the URL right there,

and then it will compare the two models. And I'm comparing my NES that

I've been using in the videos to the NES that was used for all the drawings.

And I can see that

the two models compare beautifully because they're all

green and it checks out as being

correct.

If any one of these were wrong,

these would show up as red, we'd be able to go in and figure out what we need to work on.

Now there's another part of the CAD Checker that's valuable

and let's...

How do I get out of this?

Why is that not happening?

There

you go.

I

can click on the CAD Checker again, and when I click on

the CAD Checker, I can come here and compare to best practices.

Super,

super valuable here,

especially for

a couple of things.

Number one,

you can look to see which features you're using that's helpful.

OK,

you can also look to see if your sketches are well defined or

as we see right here in sketch number 6,

under defined.

We don't want to have any underdefined sketches and

this goes and checks all of them for us.

So, now we need to know. Now, we know we can go into sketch 6

and make a fix.

Also I know there's two parts in this particular Part Studio.

And I really like that it's telling me that I've renamed all

of my parts so that I'm not just having part 1,

part 2,

part 3.

Use the CAD Checker,

it's helpful,

especially for seeing if you have any

underdefined sketches that you need to go pay attention to.

I suggest not turning in anything,

in

your workflow that has underdefined sketches.