From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Piping and Routing

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Drawing creation

Drawing creation - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Piping and Routing

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Drawing creation

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- [Instructor] Making drawings of your newly-created pipe routes is important for looking at all the required pipe lengths next to each other in the bill of materials, as well as recording important details about your route. Let's look at some of Solidworks' tools to help make the creation of this drawing a bit easier. To start off, let's make sure we're on the piping tab at the top, since we're doing some drawings of piping. I'm now going to go ahead and select whichever route assembly I would like to create a drawing of. For me, I'm going to create a drawing of our top center route. So I'm going to go ahead and click that. And now, you'll notice that because our tank is included in the sub assembly, this is also going to be part of the drawing that we generate. So now that we have our sub assembly chosen, I'm going to go up to pipe drawing up here in the center of our top bar. I'm going to click that, and now what you'll see pop up on your screen is a file that contains just your…

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