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Working with drawing templates

Working with drawing templates - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Working with drawing templates

- When we start getting ready to create drawings inside of SOLIDWORKS we need to start from a template, and if you don't already have a template predefined and given to you, you're going to need to go ahead and create your own. Now we could get by by using the default templates, but it's always a lot better to have your own company logo, company information, who drew the drawing, and everything else in that template. So to get started, let's click on brand new document, go into Drawing and click on OK. Now, by default, I need to choose one of these standard templates, and I'm going to choose this one called ANSI C Landscape, click on OK, and here's my brand new drawing. Now, I want to modify this title block down here. So to do that, I'm going to go ahead and right-click, click on Cancel, and right-click one more time, and click on Edit Sheet Format. As soon as I'm in the editing format here, I can then use the drawing tools to draw more lines, to create all types of different things,…

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