- Drawings Overview
You can generate drawings in SOLIDWORKS the same way you would generate them in 2D CAD systems.
- Creating Drawings
- Drafting
You can draft in 2D in SOLIDWORKS drawing documents using Sketch tools, Dimension tools, and Annotations.
- Standards
You can set up styles in SOLIDWORKS to format dimensions, but it is not necessary to do so for dimensions and other annotations to follow a drawing standard.
- Scaling
In SOLIDWORKS, drawing views can be at any scale (2:1, 1:2, for example) in relation to the model.
- Multiple Drawings
In SOLIDWORKS, you can have multiple drawing sheets in a drawing document, which is like having a set of drawings all in the same file. The sheets can contain drawing views of any parts or assemblies.
- Title Blocks
When you start a new drawing in SOLIDWORKS, you select a template with a specified paper size and drawing sheet format.
- Drawing Views
Drawing views are containers. Generally the contents are views of models. When you sketch in a drawing, or insert annotations or blocks, the entities belong to the active drawing view or drawing sheet.
- Aligning Views
Alignment between views in SOLIDWORKS is automatic and adjustable. For example, standard 3 views are automatically aligned vertically and horizontally, while section, projected, and auxiliary views are aligned in the appropriate direction.
- Automatic Drawing Operations
In addition to the autodimensioning and autotransitioning in sketching, automated operations in drawings increase productivity.