From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Advanced Engineering Drawings

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Surface finish

Surface finish - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Surface finish

- Once you've moved beyond the Simple Smart Dimension callouts, you may want to add a Surface Finish callout to your drawing. To find the Surface Finish feature, go to the Command Manager and click on the Annotation tab. In the center of the screen you'll find the Surface Finish feature. Click it to activate it, and simply go down and select the edge to which you would like to add the annotation. I'm going to click on this edge again, repeating my previous note. You'll notice like many of our other annotations, it stays activated until you hit the green check box or hit Escape. If you want to edit the Surface Finish callout simply click on it, and over in the left side in the Property Manager you will find all of the customizations available to Surface Finish. Now I'm not going to go through and explain every single detail about Surface Finish. I will advise that at the end of the day to really get what you want to…

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