SolidWorks World 2012 Top Ten list actually included one drawing specific idea, and one more general idea that affected drawings within its scope. The odd thing about the Drawings ideas this particular year is that one of them is already addressed, and another is not clear about its intent. Given the variety of situations surrounding SWW2012’s … Continue reading “Drawings Top Ten list from years past: SWW2012”
In SOLIDWORKS 2015, there are two methods to change (flip) an angle dimension. Vertically Opposite Angle You can now flip any placed angle dimension to its vertically opposite angle. This is useful when you wish to place the entire angle dimension outside of the model edges. Right-click on the angle to bring up the right-click … Continue reading “Year of the Angle Dimension – Part 2 – Flipping out (and over)”
For what do we use center marks? Center marks are a drawing standard annotation placed at the center of holes and other radial features. This allows a drawing reader to see two things quickly. First, they can immediately see the feature is radial (hole or fillet). Second, they can quickly identify the center of that … Continue reading “Apply your Center Mark and actually using it too (with advanced right-click commands)!”
Have you ever tried to move an arrow of an annotation note, but instead the drawing view itself moved? To fix the mistake, you are forced to undo and retry again. The problem can pop up fairly frequently when trying to move balloons on an assembly drawing. If a balloon is pointing to a … Continue reading “Trying to move an annotation arrow but drawing view moves instead?”
[This article is outdated. The macro is no longer available. SOLIDWORKS has enhanced view label capabilities in subsequent releases, starting in SOLIDWORKS 2014. Please see current SOLIDWORKS Help for more information.] If you have ever needed to add a label to a standard drawing view, you know it takes a few steps to get it … Continue reading “Label Views +”
UPDATE for SolidWorks 2014: The following protocol is no longer necessary to achieve a different sheet format for addition sheets on a drawing. Please see 2014 What’s New in SolidWorks – Sheet Formats for current information. —- Here is the [no-longer-necessary] protocol to set up a Drawing Template so that it can use two completely different … Continue reading “Drawing Template with Two Different Sheet Formats (Part 2)”
