The BOM Description column picks up the Description property from your models. But if you are finding that modifying the property is not updating the BOM, there is a good chance you have other Descriptions that are overriding the value. Here is the hierarchy of the Description column. These options allow you to have different descriptions for each configuration. Read More »
If you’re constantly adding the same annotations to your drawings, save some time and add them to the Design Library. This gives you quick access to drag and drop them on your drawings. In the Design Library tab, click the upper left button “Add to Library”. Add Notes, Surface Finish symbols, Weld Symbols, and Blocks.
If you have a custom symbol, create the geometry with sketch entities and notes. Combine these into a block and save the block into the Library. Read More »
While teaching a SolidWorks Essentials course, I had a student show me a drafting trick that I had not seen before.
As you may know, you are able to link drawing notes to the file properties of the drawing and components. After inserting the note, click the “Link to Property” button in the PropertyManager. You have 4 options from where to grab the custom properties.
Search for “Link to Property” in the SolidWorks Help for a description of each option. The drop-down menu allows you to select the custom property from the specified file. Once finished you will notice that the note adds the corresponding value for the custom property. If you edit the note and click “Link to Property” again it just adds another link and doesn’t automatically remove the previous value. You could delete the previous value and add another link, but there is an option to edit the equation.
As a designer, you want to spend most of your time designing, not drafting and this is one of the reasons you chose SolidWorks as your main design tool.
As you are approaching the completion of your current project, you already took advantage of all the goodies inside SolidWorks and created amazing models and perfect assemblies. When you got to the boring part of creating the drawing, SolidWorks did most of the work for you generating and detailing drawing views almost automatically. Inserting the Bill of Material took you just 2 seconds. You are happy, you will meet the deadline with time to spare!
There is only one thing that frustrates you. The Bill of Materials does not look as good as the rest of your drawing (see Fig. 1). The rows have different heights and give the appearance of poor drafting skills.
Fig. 1 - Messy BOM
Is there a quick way to re-size the whole BOM in bulk?
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