Creating Drawings
Drafting in SolidWorks
To draft a drawing in SolidWorks without creating a model:
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Open a New 
drawing document. Choose a template.
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Draw lines, rectangles, circles, and other entities with the tools on the Sketch toolbar.
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Dimension the entities with the Smart Dimension 
tool on the Dimensions/Relations toolbar.
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Add annotations (Notes, Geometric Tolerance Symbols, Balloons, and so on) with tools on the Annotation toolbar.
NOTE: See the next section for an alternative approach. See Drafting
for further details on sketching in drawings.
Creating Drawings from Models
To generate drawings from part and assembly documents:
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In a part or assembly document, click Make Drawing from Part/Assembly 
on the Standard toolbar and select a template in the Sheet Format/Size dialog box.
The View Palette opens on the right side of the window.
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Click 
to pin the View Palette.
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Drag a view from the View Palette onto the drawing sheet.
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In the Drawing View or Projected View PropertyManager, set options such as orientation, display style, scale, etc. then click 
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Repeat steps 3 and 4 to add views.
Note: You can have any drawing views of any models in a given drawing document.
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Model part
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Drawing with several views and dimensions inserted
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See SolidWorks Tutorials: Lesson 3 - Drawings