Engineering Design with SOLIDWORKS 2016

Fundamentals of Drawing Engineering Design with SOLIDWORKS® 2016

The Sheet Format is incorporated into the Drawing Template. The

Sheet Format contains the border, Title block information, revision
block information, company name, and or company logo

information, Custom Properties, and SOLIDWORKS Properties.

Custom Properties and SOLIDWORKS Properties are shared

values between documents.

Utilize the standard B (ANSI) Landscape size Drawing Template
with no Sheet Format. Set the Units, Font and Layers. Modify a B

(ANSI) Landscape size Sheet Format to create a Custom Sheet

Format and Custom Drawing Template.

1. Set Sheet Properties and Document Properties for the Drawing

Template.

2. Insert Custom Properties: CompanyName, Revision, Number, DrawnBy, DrawnDate,

Company Logo, Third Angle Projection Logo, etc. for the Sheet Format.

3. Save the Custom

Drawing Template

and Custom Sheet

Format in the MY-

TEMPLATE file

folder.

Top, Front, Right

views of part

Sheet

Format

Drawing

Template

SOLIDWORKS

Drawing

PART/

ASSEMBLY

TITLE BLOCK

LOGO

CUSTOM

PROPERTIES

ANSI

UNITS – MM

FONT

ARROWS

LINE STYLES

LAYERS