SolidWorks 2010 Bible

Part V: Creating Drawings

The Style panel contains the following buttons:

l Apply Defaults/No Styles. Removes style settings from the current interface, setting all

values back to the defaults.

l Add or Update Styles. Either adds a new style to the database or changes the name or

other settings for an existing style.

l Delete Style. Removes a style from the database.

l Save Style. Saves a style to an external file (*.sldhwfvt), which can be loaded by other

users and added to their databases.

l Load Style. Loads a saved style file.

Styles can be loaded into document templates so that for every document created from the tem-

plate, those Styles will be available.

Linking notes to custom properties

You can link notes to custom properties. The custom properties can be from the drawing, or from

the model that is referenced by the drawing. I mention this kind of link briefly in Chapter 20, but

discuss it more thoroughly here.

Figure 22.9 shows a note on a drawing with custom property links pulling data from the model

shown on the drawing. To add these links, driven by the syntax $PRPSHEET:”material”, click

the icon indicated in the image to the right in Figure 22.9.

FIGURE 22.9

Linking notes to custom properties

Link to

Custom Properties

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