Drawing forms question

Hello everyone,

I am new to Solidworks. I want to make "A", "B", and "C" size drawing forms
that have attributes built into them to automatically populate the drawing
forms from data built into the models. How do I do this? Are there any good
tutorials that cover this? Are there any drawing forms with attributes in
them that I can download, examine and learn from?

Thanks for your help in advance!
SRB

 

See the help menu under "document templates"

Mike

 

Also do a search on "custom properties" which throws up various useful help
topics, notably "link to property".

John H

 

Something that you may want to remember is that if you open a standard
SW part or assembly file and save it as a "part template" or an
"assembly template" respectively that just about every system setting
will be saved into that template.

The best thing to do is to open a new part of assembly file, AND while
not adding any geometry but just saving after modifying the settings,
that you will be able to have a tremendous amount of control.

When I first got started with SW I saved an assembly template and
didn't realize that the orientation of the printer was portrait instead
of landscape. Then, every once in a while when I happened to use that
perticular template that the printer would send out strange results.
It took a little while to understand that even the printer settings are
saved in the template.

One of the things that I have done has been to develope about a dozen
part template files with the custom property, "material" being
pre-defined. Then when I create a new part I "preselect" that the
material is alum or steel or plastic etc. With a little creative
naming for these files I have been able to add a little more order to
my SW universe.

Hope this helps,

EdT