Essentials: Drawings

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Length: 2 days

Prerequisites: SolidWorks Essentials

Description: This course teaches you how to make drawings of SolidWorks parts and assemblies.

The topics covered in this course are:

• Drawing Sheets and Views
• Drawing Sheets and Views
• Terminology
• Drawing Views
• Sketching in Drawing Views
• View Settings
• Centermarks and Centerlines
• Model Edges in the View

Dimensions

• Dimensions
• Moving and Deleting Dimensions
• Dimension Properties

Annotations

• Adding Annotations
• Annotation Types
• Blocks

Sheet Formats and Templates

• Sheet Formats and Templates
• Drawing Templates
• Properties in the Template
• User Defined Properties
• Customizing a Sheet Format
• Importing Legacy Data
• Define Title Block
• Updating Sheet Formats

Assembly Drawing Views

• Assembly Drawing Views
• Creating Views of Assemblies

Bill of Materials and Tables

• Creating and Managing a Bill of Materials
• The Bill of Materials
• Adding a BOM
• Modifying the BOM
• Tabulated Bill of Materials
• Design Tables in the Drawing

Performance and Display Issues

• Performance and Display Issues
• Large Assembly Mode
• Lightweight Drawings
• Detached Drawings
• Display Issues in Drawing Views

Drawing References and Comparison

• Reusing a Drawing File
• Changing Drawing References
• Using DrawCompare
• SolidWorks Design Checker

Using DimXpert and TolAnalyst

• DimXpert
• Tolerance Types and Features
• DimXpert Selections
• Settings for DimXpert
• Auto Dimension Scheme
• Turned Part
• Using Plus and Minus
• DimXpert Annotations and Drawings
• Using DimXpert Manually

Preparations for Detailing