From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2018 Essential Training
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Setting up drawing options and sheet properties - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2018 Essential Training
Setting up drawing options and sheet properties
- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to be further modifying our drawing template using some options and adding a DXF file and a few other things. So first thing before we get started is go ahead an open up that template. Come up here to open, right here, and in the 15_02 folder, we should see the draw1 template, and this is the same template that I saved out in 15 dash 01, and I just copied it over to this folder here so we can make further modifications. Go ahead and click on that template, click on open, and it should open right up. Now in the last movie we added the icon here, and some information, now instead of adding a color icon, you might actually want to import a DXF file or a block, and to do that it's pretty straight forward and easy. I need to first turn on the blocks toolbar, so come up here, click anywhere in the gray area, right click, and then say blocks, and that's going to go ahead and turn this little toolbar on over here on the far right, and I'm going to go…
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