Drawing Templates from Scratch in SOLIDWORKS: Part II

[@srinivasanv6573]

This channel is gem for SolidWorks designer...and also u can give career advise to designers

[@rickfearn3663]

Excellent clarity for a topic that is not explained well by SWs.

[@user-gj6tz5cr3q]

Thanks for the tutorial, it was very helpful to me!

[@SanjayRajput-q8i]

VERY HELPFULL IN MY JOB

[@robthomson6780]

If you run into the issue where you create a new drawing and the dimensions come in as ISO even though the drawing standard is ANSI: In the new selection box, click the advanced button at the bottom left (not novice). Then pick your desired template. If you pick the novice option and then the drawing button, it will have you pick your drawing format but the template will be the generic template without any of the drawing properties that you have selected.

[@Positiveenergyrecord]

Thanks so much this made my job a lot easier!

[@signmanmatt]

Excellent! Thank You!

[@iyadrifai1846]

Great set of videos!

[@davidp.2751]

Really usefull and clear, thanks a lot!

[@yacinezidane6329]

Very informative tutorial good job you're doing saint's work ! Thank you

[@stevenriley8487]

Big help thanks for making that tutorial

[@williamfederbusch5503]

Super helpful. Thank you.

[@MarkMcLellan-um2tt]

Very good video. I can't get the changes I've made to the dimensions in options to be saved in the drawing template. I'm obviously missing a little step.

[@caddiseno6399]

thank you so much for you time and description on this video, It has been very useful for me. ¿Where can I find the next parts of this video series? Congratulations, keep going!

[@ajeesh3485]

good video. thank you

[@greenlightzone]

Hello, if you cannot save your sheet because you are a legit user and bought a hobby version of Solidworks connected, instead press publish, you can then save sheet format

[@akhalil777]

Good job 👍

[@michaelmccreary667]

Don't forget to smash that like button guys!

[@mulfandisallowed9345]

So if i want to make some different size of paper. I should make it one by one??

[@nathanrollins1986]

Great lesson, thanks. I feel a bit more confident now. If I decide to make a change to either my template or my format, can that change be propagated to existing drawings? Will I need to manually make the changes? Can I tell the part's drawing to use a different template without losing all of the dimensions / notes / etc? Thanks for posting this - a great help!

[@AceHardy]

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[@Stelan1999]

Thanks for the tutrial! Is there a way to merge a sheet format with the template options of a different drawing template?

[@hawkridgesystems]

To do this you would want to follow the procedure at 6:08 You can swap the sheet format being used by a template. So the trick would be to create a new drawing using the template with the options that you want (even if it has the wrong sheet format) and then edit the Sheet Properties to choose the desired Sheet Format. Then you can save the resulting document as a new template, or overwrite an existing template. Hope this helps!

[@markdankers2185]

Thank you for the usefull tutorial. I made an template for SolidWorks lessons which i teach on a university. Now I like to use this template on different computers. Is it simply copy the template from the default file location of my computer and save it on the default file location of the other computers?

[@hawkridgesystems]

Yes copy and paste between the computers should work. Alternatively if there is a shared network drive available, you could also store the template there- then modify the File Locations of all the computers such that they reference the shared network drive for Document Templates.

[@4n2earth22]

Thanks for a very informative tutorial. Very well presented! At the very end, when you modify your template, do you have to re-save the sheet format again before saving the template if you changed it? Or does saving it as you indicate keep all your changes in the template?

[@hawkridgesystems]

Good question! Short answer is: if you are changing the sheet format, re-save the sheet format. Long answer: If there were any changes specifically to the Sheet Format, I would recommend saving the Sheet Format again. To play it on the safe side you could even repeat the step of making sure that latest Sheet Format is selected in the Sheet Properties before saving the Template. Otherwise what could likely happen is: you would have an updated sheet format on Sheet1 of any new drawing you create, but when you go to create Sheet2 it would use the older, out-of-date sheet format that is still referenced in the template. In this example, we didn't modify the Sheet Format at all from the time it was saved to when we saved our Template. The only changes we made were to template-specific settings such as Document Properties (Units, so on) so we didn't need to re-save the sheet format again.

[@4n2earth22]

@@hawkridgesystems Awesome response. Thanks!!

[@aashisheapen8230]

This was so helpful........but now my new template is loading every time I open the drawing view........how do I select another template?

[@hawkridgesystems]

If you want to swap an existing sheet format, you can do that by right clicking on the sheet and accessing "Sheet Properties" and then selecting the replacement sheet format

[@vision9829]

Can we change the sizes of the title block according to drawings everytime?

[@hawkridgesystems]

The typical process is to create separate sheet formats for each size drawing you want to produce. Then create the templates for that paper size, that will reference the appropriate sheet format. This way you will ultimately have "one click" creation of various sized sheets with a consistent looking title block and border. But the sheet formats must be customized for each paper size upfront to accomplish this - there is no functionality to automatically scale them.

[@vision9829]

@@hawkridgesystems Okay, thanks! Your video has been very helpful to accelerate my dimensioning 😄

[@manulingous]

Hi, thanks for the tuto, it's very usefull. Helps a lot to understand the logic to follow with the sheet format. I manage to create an A2 template that seems to work just fine. Then, from that A2, I modified the format to A1 by using custom properties and setting the dimensions equal to A1 dimensions (so width and length values). Then I reorganised my title block, scaled a little bit of this and that, and saved a new A1 sheet format, and then a new A1 template. But now the field "sheet size" displays "custom", and I can't get it to display "A1". The A2 template displays its size "A2" correctly though. Is there a way to change the custom dimension to a standard dimension? My intend being to create derivated formats from A4 to A1 with the exact same template properties.

[@hawkridgesystems]

The items that show in the "Standard sheet size" are actually the default sheet formats. If you are creating your own new sheet formats and saving them in the default sheet format directory, then you likely just need to uncheck the checkbox "Only show standard format" to see your new templates. If you are saving your new sheet formats to a new directory, then you would want to Browse to that location and update your File Locations under Tools -> System Options -> File Locations, Sheet Formats to point to the new folder location. Then you would still need to uncheck the "Only show standard format" checkbox under standard sheet size to be able to select your customized sheet formats. How your sheet formats show up in the list depend just on their file name, so it sounds like you'd want to name them with a convention like "A4 MySheetFormat" Hope this helps!

[@manulingous]

@@hawkridgesystems Thanks for the answer. However my question was unclear : I succeded in creating my A2 template. From there I hoped I could modify it to create A1 and A3 templates. But I couldn't find a way to modify only the size of the canvas (like you would do on Autocad for instance) except by choosing the "custom sheet size", and then the automatic sheet size parameter is locked on "custom". For those who have the same problem, it seems like you must pick a standard sheet format of the right format (ISO, ANSI whatever) to start with. A little trick is to start from your 1st custom template (for me it was A2) so that the program parameters are kept (fonts, line styles etc). Then you swap the sheet format for a standard of a different size (for me it was a A1 ISO). As the title block will be lost, I copy paste it back from my custom A2 template, modifiy a little the layout, increase some cells and font size, and repeat the steps to save a new A1 custom sheet format, then template, just like Hawk Ridge explained. I would appreciate that Solidworks makes it simpler for us, but you know, if it works fine where is the fun...?! Typical Solidworks :P