Route Drawings

In this lesson, you create a drawing for the routes you created in the Pipe and Tube Routes lesson. In addition to views of the routes, the drawing has a bill of materials (BOM) that includes pipe length information.

  1. Do one of the following:
    • Open the assembly you completed in the Pipe and Tube Routes lesson.
    • Browse to the local folder that contains the sample files for this tutorial and open FinalSkid.SLDASM.
  2. Click New .
  3. In the New SOLIDWORKS Document dialog box:
    1. Click Advanced.
    2. On the Templates tab, click Drawing .
    3. Click OK.
  4. In the Sheet Format/Size dialog box:
    1. Select Standard sheet size.
    2. Select D - Landscape.
    3. Click OK.
    A new drawing opens and the Model View PropertyManager appears.