- Setting Options for Drawing Documents
A variety of options customize drawings to your company’s standards and to the requirements of your printer or plotter.
- Create a Drawing
- Sheet Format/Size
Drawing sheets are the "paper" sheets where you place drawing views, dimensions, and annotations.
- The Drawing Window
- Sheet Formats, Sheets, and Views
- Customizing Sheet Formats
- Saving Sheet Formats
- Sheet Properties
You can set the sheet properties or zone parameters when you add a new sheet or edit an existing sheet.
- Copying Sheets
You can copy drawing sheets inside a drawing document or across different drawings.
- Multiple Drawing Sheets
- Renaming Sheets
- Change Sheet Format for Multiple Sheets at the Same Time
You can set sheet properties, including sheet formats and zone parameters, for multiple drawing sheets at the same time.
- Linking Notes to Document Properties
- Views of Parts and Assemblies
Views reference a part or an assembly. You can scale, orient, and position views on the drawing sheet.
- View Boundaries
When the pointer passes over the edge of a drawing view, the view boundary is highlighted. The boundaries are tightly fitted around the view by default; you cannot manually resize them. If you add sketch entities to a drawing view, the boundary automatically resizes to include these items. The boundary does not resize to include dimensions or annotations. View boundaries, and the views they contain, can overlap.
- Scales in Drawings
Scales in drawings apply to sheets or views. The scale for the active drawing sheet appears in the status line at the bottom of the window, and the scale for the active view appears in the view PropertyManager. You can also scale a drawing when you print it.
- Inserting Sketch Picture in Drawings
You can insert pictures (files of type .bmp, .gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .tif, and .wmf) into a drawing as in a sketch.
- 2D Sketching in Drawings
You can create drawing geometry using 2D sketched geometry only, without reference to existing models or assemblies. This sketched geometry can be controlled by relations (collinear, parallel, tangent, and so on), as well as parametric dimensions.
- Weld Beads in Drawings
- Creating Drawings of Future Version Parts and Assemblies
You can create drawings of future version SOLIDWORKS parts and assemblies in Service Pack 5 of the previous release, with some limitations.
- Multi-sheet Drawings in Quick View
You can open multi-sheet drawings quickly by viewing most sheets in Quick view, which is a read-only mode that provides a simplified drawing representation.