From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Managing the Design Library

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Use it in a sheet metal drawing

Use it in a sheet metal drawing - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Managing the Design Library

Start my 1-month free trial

Use it in a sheet metal drawing

- [Narrator] Okay, we've created our grain direction, design library element. And now it's time to test it out. So I've opened up our little test part which is just a base flange. And I've got my grain direction, annotation right here. I'm going to bring it, drag it and drop it onto the face. It's going to ask me for the configuration. So I'm going to select default. Then it asks me for two edges and a point. So notice, it tells me what the edges are going to be. So it's asking for this edge first. So I'm going to select that edge first. Then it says, "Do you want this edge?" So I'm going to select that edge. Then is asks me for point. I'm going to just select the origin. And notice, it placed the grain text far away from the arrows. So we're going to need to fix that. So you see the grain direction here in the browser. You can see the grain direction arrow here. And the grain text here. Notice when I highlight it, it shows me the dimensions here and here. So I'm going to change those…

Contents