AUTOCAD SOLIDWORKS DESIGN

Drawing templates and formats are complex enough that I cover them in a separate chapter. Chapter 20 discusses the differences between templates and formats, and how to use them to your advantage. This chapter addresses part and assembly templates. n Depending on your needs, it might be reasonable to have templates for metric and inch part and assembly, templates for steel and aluminum, and templates for sheet metal parts and for weldments, if you design these types of parts. If your firm has different customers with different requirements, you might consider using separate templates for each customer. Over time, you will discover the types of templates you need, because you will find yourself making the same changes repeatedly. To create a template, open a document of the appropriate type (part or assembly), and make the settings you want the template to have; for example, units are one of the most common reasons to make a separate template, though any Document Property setting is f...