Hide Table of Contents

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.

System drawing options

Click Tools, Options, System Options, Drawings . Specify various display and update options for views. The settings on the System Options tab apply to all documents. Other system options for drawings are found under the following topics:

  • Display Style. Drawing view display mode and tangent edge display.

  • Area Hatch/Fill. Hatch or solid fill, pattern, scale, and angle of area hatches.

Document-specific detailing options

Click Options . On the Document Properties tab, select Detailing . The settings on the Document Properties tab apply to the active document only. Other document properties for drawings are found under the following topics:

Related Topics

Customizing sheet formats

Document templates

Page setup

Sheet properties

Table templates



Provide feedback on this topic

SOLIDWORKS welcomes your feedback concerning the presentation, accuracy, and thoroughness of the documentation. Use the form below to send your comments and suggestions about this topic directly to our documentation team. The documentation team cannot answer technical support questions. Click here for information about technical support.

* Required

 
*Email:  
Subject:   Feedback on Help Topics
Page:   Setting Options for Drawing Documents
*Comment:  
*   I acknowledge I have read and I hereby accept the privacy policy under which my Personal Data will be used by Dassault Systèmes

Print Topic

Select the scope of content to print:
x

We have detected you are using a browser version older than Internet Explorer 7. For optimized display, we suggest upgrading your browser to Internet Explorer 7 or newer.

 Never show this message again
x

Web Help Content Version: SOLIDWORKS 2012 SP05

To disable Web help from within SOLIDWORKS and use local help instead, click Help > Use SOLIDWORKS Web Help.

To report problems encountered with the Web help interface and search, contact your local support representative. To provide feedback on individual help topics, use the “Feedback on this topic” link on the individual topic page.

0.20.56