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One of the areas where SolidWorks lacks is in the creation and editing of engineering drawings.\u00a0 Specifically, there is very poor support for drawing templates.\u00a0 One person has taken a stab at filling this gap in SolidWorks functionality.\u00a0 Kevin Van Liere of SolidWorks Templates <\/a>has created Template Wizard.<\/p>\n

The goal for Templates Wizard is to make it easy for the end user to create and edit drawing templates.\u00a0 According to Kevin, SolidWorks Corp. does not acknowledge that their lack of functionality with drawing templates is a problem.\u00a0 Also not provided by SolidWorks Corp. is a best practices guide for templates during SolidWorks training.\u00a0 He developed Template Wizard due to these facts and out of pure frustration.<\/p>\n

He says that his target is end users, of course.\u00a0 In particular, new users will find Template Wizard most helpful, though he does feel existing users will benefit as well.\u00a0 I am inclined to agree, especially at the current list price of {outdated}<\/em>.\u00a0 Due to the low price, he stated that some VARs have contacted him about purchasing seats of Template Wizard to provide it to their clients for free as part of an overall package.\u00a0 For the price, this is likely one of the most accessible professional SolidWorks Add-ins available.<\/p>\n

The Add-in creates templates for drawings, models and model assemblies.\u00a0 It allows the user to create such templates from scratch. In the case of drawing templates, it also allows the user to create a SolidWorks drawing template based on an AutoCAD template.\u00a0 Additionally, it will edit existing SolidWorks drawing templates to add fields and functions that might be previously lacking.<\/p>\n

The focus is on the actual templates themselves.\u00a0 For example, Template Wizard intentionally does not go deep in to settings, such as centermark sizes.\u00a0 It does provide general control by the selection of ANSI, ISO, etc.\u00a0 However, for the most part, it offers the pure experience of creating the template itself.\u00a0 I think that task is daunting enough without getting into the numerous individual settings available within SolidWorks.<\/p>\n

Part 2 of this article will go into the details of Template Wizard, focusing on its work flow and specific functions.\u00a0 It will include a (hopefully) thorough critique of the Add-in.<\/p>\n

For the record, this review is unsolicited by SolidWorks Templates; I contacted SolidWork Templates.\u00a0 This review is based on a free short term license that was provided to me by SolidWorks Templates solely for the purpose of this review.\u00a0 That license is revoked upon completion of this review.\u00a0 No guarantees by me were granted to SolidWorks Templates regarding the outcome of this review.\u00a0 I did discuss my negative findings with Kevin regarding specific functions prior to release of this review.\u00a0 All of my findings (positive and negative) will be openly presented in Part 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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