SolidWorks 2010 Bible

Chapter 20: Automating Drawings: The Basics

templates, thus maintaining the loaded styles. Several types of styles can be loaded into and saved

with drawing templates, including dimension, note, GD&T, weld, and surface finish symbols.

When a style is loaded into a template, any document that you create from that template can use

any of the loaded styles. The many file types for styles exist mainly to transfer styles from one doc-

ument to another, but they are not needed once the style is loaded. As a result, before saving a

template, you should gather together your styles into your library folder and load them into the

template.

You can load styles by going to the interface for the type of favorite; for example, dimensions or

notes. Figure 20.25 shows the top of the Note PropertyManager interface, which contains the

Styles panel.

FIGURE 20.25

The Styles panel for the Note PropertyManager

The buttons in the Styles panel of the Note PropertyManager interface have the following func-

tions, from left to right:

l Apply the default attributes to the selected notes

l Add or update a style

l Delete a style

l Save a style

l Load a style