SOLIDWORKS Templates
If your company uses standard PCB sizes and configurations repeatedly for their designs and projects, it may be very beneficial to create templates for those projects to eliminate unnecessary repetitive work, save time, and maintain consistency in the structure of all projects. To create a new SOLIDWORKS PCB template: Create a new SOLIDWORKS PCB project…
Making a SOLIDWORKS Part Template is a quick and easy way to model in the desired unit of measure, have the appropriate visual qualities and have other specific settings turned on or off. Below is a step by step process of how to create a simple part template tailored to your company’s needs. This process…
The SOLIDWORKS Automatic Border tool lets us control the shape and segments of a sheet format border such as zone layout and border size. The details of creating borders and saving them as a sheet format template are provided in the SOLIDWORKS Drawing Automatic Border tool. However while working technical support, two related questions I have received…
Many of the SOLIDWORKS File Locations point to folders in C:\ProgramData\SOLIDWORKS. This includes default items like Templates, Custom Material Databases, Weldment Profiles, Design Libraries, etc. You may have noticed that browsing to this folder is not always visible. By default, Windows keeps SOLIDWORKS ProgramData (C:\ProgramData) hidden. There are two ways to browse to this location.…
A SOLIDWORKS Electrical Project Template is used to create a new project with a number of specific settings and options. Project templates also hold any other additional information you would like to store in a template. For example, when starting a new project, we have a number of SOLIDWORKS default templates we can choose from,…
When creating drawing templates, you can include a number of settings and options to help customize your template to meet your exact requirements. One way to customize your drawing template is to add specific SOLIDWORKS predefined views as required. Let’s say for example the majority of our products require a front view, a right view, a…
BOM Tables in SOLIDWORKS can sometimes create as many issues as they often solve, as you take the time to manipulate the shape of your table against a given drawing template. After all of the manipulation via dragging columns and rows to a perfect height, you discover you have to do it again, for the…
How to create a SOLIDWORKS PCB Custom Title Block and Sheet Template
In this article we will run through the general process of creating a SOLIDWORKS PCB custom title block and sheet template. The first step to creating your own custom title block is to open an existing title block (in this case let’s start with the B.schdot file, default location C:\Users\Public\Documents\SOLIDWORKS\SOLIDWORKS PCB\Templates). This will open the SOLIDWORKS…