Custom drawing templates in solidworks

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Thank you for your interest in Hawk Ridge Systems! We will be in touch with you shortly. Let's Connect. For example, you usually make Drawings with A4 and A3 size. By default, a template for each file type; part, assembly and drawing, will be included within the installation. Select Drawing Template. Drawing Templates corresponding with sheet size.

Select appropriate size according to requirement. When editing the Sheet format, you can change the style of sheet by modify the line, the color, the text, , add your company logo and company name, insert the sign etc. Now that the border is finished, some sections for information need to be added to help keep the template organized. To add in sections, they simply need to be sketched in. Go over to the sketch tab and select the line or rectangle command. Create some boxes and proportion them to the size and shape that is desired for the custom template.

An example of the sections made for this blog is shown. After the sections have been added in they need to be labeled. This can be done by placing annotations notes in each box. The Note command can be found under the annotation tab on the toolbar near the top of the screen.

A note is placed in each box of the title block. This is done to give an input location for information about the drawing.

Note size and shape can be adjusted by double-clicking on the note itself. An example of the layout for notes in a drawing template is shown. Notice that there is still a large empty space inside title block area. Typically, in this space or one like it, a decal belonging to either the person or the company is placed to show ownership of the template.

To start, we need to open up a blank drawing and make some changes to it. First edit the format. No need to drive this. However, if you have multiple users sharing this template, you can have it driven from the Author in the custom properties. There are a lot of custom properties you can create and drive from here.

On the left side, press the Link to Property button. We want this to be the date in which the part was created, so we will select model found here.

Click Options. What is a template in engineering? Templates have pre-dimensional holes that are in the right scale, so engineers can accurately draw a specific symbol or sign. Letter templates can be used to draw text such as digits and letter characters , while others can be used to draw circles and arcs.

Hopefully, there is a file that is close to what you need and you can modify that. You can change the scale of a drawing sheet by selecting a scale from a predefined list or specifying a custom scale. To change the scale of an existing drawing sheet: In the status bar, click Sheet Scale and click a scale.

If there are annotations in the drawing sheet, specify options in the dialog box and click OK. To move a template from one template folder to another template folder: In the Template Management dialog, double-click the folder that contains the template you want to move.