Document Templates
Templates are part, drawing, and assembly documents that include user-defined
parameters and are the basis for new documents.
You can maintain many different document templates. For example, you
can create:
A document template using millimeters and another
template using inches
A document template using ANSI and another template
using ISO dimensioning standard
A template for detached
drawings
You can organize and access your document templates by placing them
on different
tabs in the Advanced
display of the New
SolidWorks Document dialog box.
Templates can include settings for such Document
Properties as:
grid spacing
extension line and break line gap
balloon bent leader length
text scale and text display size
material density
To create a template:
Click New
(Standard toolbar) or File,
New.
Double-click the type of template that you want
to create: Part, Assembly,
or Drawing.
Click Options
(Standard toolbar) or Tools,
Options.
-
On the Document Properties
tab, select options to customize your new document template, then click
OK.
Only options on the Document
Properties tab are saved in a document template.
Click File,
Save As.
Select a template type for Save
as type:
Part Templates
(*.prtdot)
Assembly Templates
(*.asmdot)
Drawing Templates
(*.drwdot)
Type a name for File
name.
Browse to a folder,
then click Save.