SolidWorks 2010 Bible

Part V: Creating Drawings

The Modify Sketch tool may be useful for moving entities around the screen, and even scaling

them. You can also access a useful hidden command by right-clicking the name of the drawing in

the FeatureManager and selecting Move from the menu, as shown in Figure 20.14. A small dialog

box appears that enables you to move the entire format by a specified distance.

FIGURE 20.14

The Move Drawing dialog box

Tip
If you need to use construction geometry to help you size or locate objects or text while manually creating
your Sheet Format, then you do not need to delete the geometry when you are done. You can put all the con-
struction geometry on a specially created drawing layer and select the layer. n

Creating a format from an imported DWG/DXF file

If you want to create your format from an imported DWG or DXF file, choose File ➪ Open to

locate the file that you would like to import and then click to open it. The DXF/DWG Import

screen appears, as shown in Figure 20.15.

You can find the sample files used for this example on the CD-ROM for Chapter 20 if you are

interested in following along. You will find five *.dwg format files. You can use any of them to

create a format, but I suggest either the A or B size. To make a drawing format, you can select the

Create New SolidWorks drawing and Convert to SolidWorks entities options. Although one of the

other options contains the word format, it is not being used in the same sense, so do not be misled.

When this selection is complete, click Next. Figure 20.16 shows the next screen.