When you’re sitting at home alone gazing into the light fixture and wondering if you caught all the changes in a drawing that was just released, here’s an absolutely simple way to wake up early, go in before anyone else finds out and do a drawing file comparison.
Make a .PDF of the first drawing (or new drawing)
Make a .PDF of the second drawing (or old drawing)
Open both PDF’s
Use Ctrl-Tab on each page to see the difference
Whoa, missed the wing-nut on that thingy-ma-jig. You just saved your neck. This is extremely useful when checking revisions of drawings. You can also do this to quickly to compare changes between other documents as well.
Josh is founder and editor at SolidSmack.com, founder at Aimsift Inc., and co-founder of EvD Media. He is involved in engineering, design, visualization, the technology making it happen, and the content developed around it. He is a SolidWorks Certified Professional and excels at falling awkwardly.
