Taxonomy / Brand
Reference notes in the Brand taxonomy for SOLIDWORKS.
Replace the vague promise of an editable CAD file with a precise outcome covering the required change, authoring authority, update behavior, and acceptance evidence.
Choose between native authoring continuity, an associative reference, converted geometry, and selective or full reconstruction based on change authority and update needs.
Learn what feature recognition, direct editing, selective reconstruction, and full remodelling can recover from imported geometry—and what they cannot prove.
Build a repeatable acceptance test for imported CAD editability that covers the required change, route context, dependencies, update behavior, and downstream result.
Separate exact CAD geometry, tessellated shape, and runtime or manufacturing meshes before choosing an exchange representation.
Treat a design handoff as a dependency graph and choose deliberately between live references, copied packages, and flattened or bound delivery.
Build a purpose-specific acceptance record for a transferred product structure, including hierarchy, identities, configurations, placements, and dependencies.
Use a controlled, evidence-led repair path for unhealthy imported geometry while preserving the original and validating every intervention.