Creating Drawings
Drafting in SolidWorks
To draft a drawing in SolidWorks without creating a
model:
Open a New
drawing document. Choose a template.
Draw lines, rectangles, circles, and other entities
with the tools on the Sketch toolbar.
Dimension the entities with the Smart
Dimension 
tool
on the Dimensions/Relations toolbar.
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:
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.
Click 
to pin the View Palette.
Drag a view from the
View Palette onto the drawing sheet.
In the Drawing
View or Projected View
PropertyManager, set options such as orientation, display style, scale,
etc. then click 
.
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 |
Drawing with
several views and dimensions inserted |
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See SolidWorks Tutorials: Lesson 3 - Drawings
Related SolidWorks Topics
2D Drafting Overview
2D Sketching in Drawings
Drawings Overview
Views of Parts and Assemblies