When you open a new SOLIDWORKS document, you select a template for that document in the New SOLIDWORKS Document dialog box. System templates are available, but you can add tabs for your own templates.
Custom tabs help manage your templates:
- Placement - Create folders on any drive, including hard drives, floppy drives, or network drives.
- Access - Share the contents of network folders, or restrict access to folders.
- Organization - Arrange folder contents to reflect your work environment.
To create a new tab on the advanced version of the New SOLIDWORKS Document dialog box:
- In Windows Explorer, create a new folder.
- In the SOLIDWORKS software, click Options or .
- On the System Options tab, select File Locations.
- Select Document Templates in Show folders for.
- Click Add, browse to the folder you created in step 1, then click OK.
- Click Yes to confirm the change.
- Create a new template and, using Save As, browse to the folder you created in step 1 and save the new template.
After you save a template to the new folder, a tab with the name of the folder appears in the advanced version of the New SOLIDWORKS Document dialog box.