Drawing Templates from Scratch in SOLIDWORKS: Part I

[@daniel-of1xr]

Thank you for a perfectly clear and understandable tutorial!

[@donputt7163]

Excellent information to create drawing fomats and sheets

[@SCOSMOS010]

Very useful. Thanks a lot.

[@vectorimpruva869]

Thank you for this simple explanation. It's useful.

[@CyArch97]

Excellent content and thorough presentation. Thank-you!

[@TheFieryWolf]

This was super helpful. The workbook that we are using for our course literally just says "build a sheet template".

[@subramanianas2050]

Amazing Learning Experience!!!

[@mountaingoat6393]

Soooo well done - thank you!

[@SalimBenyoucefDZ]

Stunning tutorial !

[@weevilinabox]

Thanks for this video (and Part II). It's really helpful. Adding constraints to the border is easy enough when you only have the simple, four-point border. Setting up a double-line border with zone markers (as per BS EN ISO 7200) on the full range of sheet sizes (A4 to A0) is tedious and error-prone. The A0 sheet alone requires selection and fixing of around 80 points! Why on earth doesn't this border default to fixed? It should at least be an option.

[@stevewilliam6852]

Bloody handy to find these simple things that we put off because we're trying to learn all the other shit.

[@shashikasandaruwan7706]

Thank you very much

[@coleen930]

thank you!

[@rjwagz]

When drawing the title block, how do you make a hidden dimension visible again, say if you want to change it?

[@hawkridgesystems]

In the menu bar, select View > Hide/Show > Annotations, and you will see the ghosted dimensions available to select to restore visibility.

[@justin60222]

HOW DO YOU SHOW THE DIMENSIONS AGAIN??? THE SETTINGS ARE DIFFERENT IN EDIT SHEET FORMAT.

[@hawkridgesystems]

You can show the hidden dimensions by going through the pull down menus and selecting View -> Hide/Show -> Annotations. The hidden dimensions will be shown in a gray color, click on them to unhide them. help.solidworks.com/2021/English/SolidWorks/sldworks/c_Hide_Show_Annotations.htm?verRedirect=1

[@MicSofty]

Hello @HawkRidgeSystems: Wouldn't it be easier in your demo to have created a new separate layer for the titleblock dimensions and hidden them by layer? That would have been more consistent than simply hiding the dimensions, given that you had already instructed the users to place border and titleblock on separate layers. BTW, you deserve a medal for these videos on creating custom sheet format & drawing template - yours are by far the most complete, thorough, logical and easy to understand videos on this topic. Many thanks!

[@CBrackenridge]

When I select to sketch a line from the border the entire border is highlighting and not allowing a constraint. How do you fix that?

[@weevilinabox]

Mine too. The only way I've found to edit those lines is to drag individual points.

[@CBrackenridge]

@@weevilinabox I got it sorted eventually. But it was hit and miss.

[@stevewilliam6852]

Hey man, do you know of a decent course for solidworks that I can do? I currently use it but am self taught and often do things the hard way and back to front, I have to charge half the rate because I take so long.

[@p4umce]

how to import from existing dwg file ?

[@manulingous]

Hi! Cool tip to set dimensions and then hide them. I used to simply delete them... But do you know how to unhide them in case you wanna change something? thx

[@hawkridgesystems]

Good question! You can show the hidden dimensions with View -> Hide/Show -> Annotations. The hidden dimensions will be shown in a gray color, click on them to unhide them. Following the process in this video, you would also need to "Edit Sheet Format" first before showing the annotations. help.solidworks.com/2021/English/SolidWorks/sldworks/c_Hide_Show_Annotations.htm?verRedirect=1

[@boneymaxfield]

Thanks, 👍

[@shinskoalachewin7245]

How much more different is this compared to the functions of ver 2014?

[@hawkridgesystems]

It should be a very similar process. The only major difference would be lack of "Automatic Border" tool shown at 3:15 which was added in 2016 version. In 2014 you'll have to manually sketch the border of the sheet, using a similar process to what we did to construct the title block. The prompt when linking custom properties to notes may also look slightly different.

[@shinskoalachewin7245]

@@hawkridgesystems Thank you. Does there happen to be a macro that performs this feature in 2014?

[@KK-em1yq]

Very nice tutorial. But how to add a company logo besides its name?

[@flowclimbing]

Hey, do you find any kind of lag (+- 1-2 sec) when selecting a note, when the property manager (left pane) loads up to show you notes options? thank you

[@buddyboyingtonesq.231]

I thought by this time a healthy baby-answer would be born...

[@flowclimbing]

@@buddyboyingtonesq.231 you suffer the same problem? I still do! Did updates, changed machine for a 15k workstation, same lag…

[@buddyboyingtonesq.231]

@@flowclimbing I was joking cuz your question was posed NINE months ago. hur hur On a serious side, I use SW 2016 and I _refused_ to update.

[@flowclimbing]

@@buddyboyingtonesq.231 yeah :( stick to that version as long as you can! Cheers

[@jasonchen4807]

Great video! Also, who is here from BIOE437?

[@ponnukrishnansuyambu6668]

how to add more revisions with a custom property

[@o3024]

Is there a possibility to you guys make a video of importing an template from Autocad. Once I have tried but I don’t know why all my entities changed its size.

[@hawkridgesystems]

We will add this to our list of topics for future videos! One quick thing to check would be - are you sure you had the correct scale settings on the import? By default it is set to millimeters. It's also important to choose correct paper size and sheet scale.

[@o3024]

I checked it. But it didn’t work. Someone told me for some reason 1 SolidWorks’s milimiter is equal to 1.002 mm in Autocad or something like that.