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Making assembly drawings

Making assembly drawings - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Making assembly drawings

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Now that we have the enclosure complete, I'd like to go ahead and start making the assembly drawings, so we can fully document our project. To get started, let's go to File and Make Drawing from Assembly. We're going to choose the Lynda template and click on OK. And as soon as you do that we've got a bunch of options over here on the right hand side, that should pop up. Showing you the different available views we can drag and drop into our design template, or our drawing. So in this case I'm going to choose the Back, and drag that in, and then it automatically turns on the projection mode. So I'm just going to drop the top view here, and then an isometric view. That's all I really need here. Now, these look a little bit small to me and it looks you also have some sketches showing up here so let's go up to Vew, let's turn Sketches off, so we don't see that. And also come over here to View. Looks like there's maybe some center lines and some things like that, got turned on. Sometimes…

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