How to Add a Watermark to your SOLIDWORKS Drawing

Perhaps there are times when you want to add a watermark to your SOLIDWORKS Drawing. Let’s say you want to have a “CONFIDENTIAL” stamp on your drawing. When you add a note to your drawing view you may notice that the note covers the drawing lines and dimensions as shown in the figure below:

Note covering drawing

To overcome this problem and display an annotation note behind the elements in your drawing sheet you have to add the note to the sheet format instead. So right click on the drawing and select “Edit Sheet Format” and then insert your note. At this point while your note is still selected you can see under the “Text Format” section of the property manager there is an option called “Behind sheet”. This option instructs SOLIDWORKS to display the annotation note behind drawing objects.

Behind Sheet Note Option

Check the box and then right-click on the drawing sheet again and this time select “Edit sheet”. Now you can see that SOLIDWORKS has moved the note behind your view and as a result it is no longer covering the lines and dimensions in your view:

Text is behind elements and annotations

Learn more about Drawings

To learn more tips and tricks when working with drawings you should attend our SOLIDWORKS Drawings course either online or in a classroom near you.