{"id":98,"date":"2008-07-16T15:50:47","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T23:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=98"},"modified":"2013-12-17T21:41:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T01:41:56","slug":"drawing-template-with-two-different-sheet-formats-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Drawing Template with Two Different Sheet Formats (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A long sought after function in SolidWorks <del>that has gone pretty much ignored<\/del> is allowing users to set up Drawing Templates with two different Sheet Formats (one for Sheet 1 of X and one for all other X of X sheets). \u00a0 [In the past, m]ost of us just had to \u00a0directly pick and load the separate X of X sheet when we add a sheet to a drawing.<\/p>\n<p>Some half solutions <del>do<\/del> did exist to get around the limitation. \u00a0I have seen one hack that involves using the X of X sheet Sheet Format as the default sheet format with sheet 1 of the Template itself simply having addition entities around the Sheet Format entities to form the complete sheet 1 of X &#8220;format&#8221;. \u00a0 Another way <del>is<\/del>\u00a0was to have two sheets already present in the Drawing Template, each one with its own Sheet Format; then delete sheet 2 when it is not used. \u00a0No more half steps!<\/p>\n<p>There is a way to have two completely different Sheet Formats embedded into a Drawing Template without having additional sheets already present. <del>\u00a0I am currently working on writing up the protocol. I will post the steps on Thursday 7\/17\/08 (<a title=\"Part 2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=99\">Instructions are now available here<\/a>). \u00a0The protocol is not complex as far as I can tell. \u00a0I just wish to thoroughly experiment and test it before posting. \u00a0Stay tuned. \u00a0And, if you know of other ways do to this, then please post your methods (or links to them) here so everyone can compare notes. \u00a0Who knows, maybe someone else has already published something about this \u00a0I just know I&#8217;ve not seen anything in any other online resources, which is why I&#8217;m fairly excited about making this method available.<\/del><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE for SolidWorks 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SolidWorks 2014 now has a second sheet setting in Document Properties. Fancy workarounds are no longer necessary. \u00a0Please see \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/help.solidworks.com\/2014\/English\/WhatsNew\/c_Drawing_Temps_Support_Primary_Secondary_Sheet_Formats.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">2014 What&#8217;s New in SolidWorks &#8211; Sheet Formats<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long sought after function in SolidWorks that has gone pretty much ignored is allowing users to set up Drawing Templates with two different Sheet Formats (one for Sheet 1 of X and one for all other X of X sheets). \u00a0 [In the past, m]ost of us just had to \u00a0directly pick and load &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=98\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Drawing Template with Two Different Sheet Formats (Part 1)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,4,9,11,3],"tags":[229,31],"series":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawing","category-how-to","category-methodology","category-news","category-tipstricks","tag-drawing-template","tag-sheet-format"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Drawing Template with Two Different Sheet Formats (Part 1) - SolidWorks Legion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=98\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Drawing Template with Two Different Sheet Formats (Part 1) - SolidWorks Legion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A long sought after function in SolidWorks that has gone pretty much ignored is allowing users to set up Drawing Templates with two different Sheet Formats (one for Sheet 1 of X and one for all other X of X sheets). \u00a0 [In the past, m]ost of us just had to \u00a0directly pick and load &hellip; 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