Drawings
Do worries about non-sequential drawing balloons keep you up at night? No? Well you still might like a new enhancement that was introduced in SolidWorks 2012 that allows you order the item numbers in drawing balloons sequentially.
When using “Insert Model Items” to import model dimensions into a drawing, the results sometimes be can be less the desirable, and moving dimensions to the correct views and location can be time consuming and laborious. .
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…
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…
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, SOLIDWORKS linked drawing notes can be connected to the file properties of the drawing and/or components. After inserting a note, click the “Link to Property” button in the Note PropertyManager as shown below: You then have four options from which to grab…
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…
Just a little tip that can save you big time when working with your drawings.
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