I don’t need that so I’m just going to hit OK.Īlright, so what we also might want to also store is those custom properties. This would hide zone dividers and zone labels in certain areas. Finally we have the option to add a margin mask. So this is how we set up the border, we have rows and columns, we have our spacing line widths and weights, we have our zone dividers if we’re using those and we also have our fonts. I’m just going to hit Next, I don’t need to use that. This delete list this would be if we want to remove anything from my title block or mask it off. This sheet format also contains the border here, if we want to change this border we can use the Automatic Border reation tool so I’ll just hit that. OK the drawing title block can also hold images we can put those in just with Insert > Picture, and we can edit any of these lines just by using our sketch tools to draw more lines, move them, etc. Once it’s inserted we would also have those properties to link to. This is linking to the description, this is done by just if we Double Click any text field, go over here to Link to Property, we can choose to link it to any properties in our drawing or any properties in the model. So the title block this can contain information such as links too properties. The sheet format contains the title block down here the border and finally also if I go to File > Properties the custom properties that are stored. Now the sheet format this is accessed by right-clicking and I’ll just choose Edit Sheet Format here.
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OK so that’s what the drawing template stores. So these views will be automatically populated when a drawing is created using this template. We can define the type of view so I’ll just place that like an isometric and just hit OK. These can be done by doing insert > drawing view > predefined. Additionally the drawing template can also store predefined drawing views. So what this stores is it just stores the document properties so if I go to my Options up here and then Document Properties this is what the template is storing, so like our units, our drafting standard, the types of views, fonts, thicknesses, that’s what’s being stored in our drawing template. So the actual drawing template, this is when we do a File > Save As and we’ll choose type. What we’ll do from here is we’ll customize this template and will also save out the sheet format in a separate file and link the two together. Usually we like to start with the default templates so that’s just when you do a File > New and choose one of these sizes of drawing templates. So what I’ve got open right now is a drawing template. Hi everyone welcome to the Alignex blog, my name is Geoffrey and today we’re going to be going through setting up your drawing templates and your sheet formats in SOLIDWORKS.
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In this video, I’ll walk you through the process of creating a drawing template that can be used on multiple projects. Come on, we are trying to increase productivity here! Nobody wants to be stuck wasting unnecessary amounts of time on tasks like recreating file templates over and over. When it comes to creating projects in SOLIDWORKS, the main goal is to spend as much time as possible on what is important, the design itself.