All These Notes and No Where to Put Them

Posted on June 6th, 2008 in Customize, Design Library, Drawings, SolidWorks, Standards, User Interface by The SW Geek

In the previous two weeks for Standards Tuesday I spoke about the proper way to create drawing notes, see Standards Tuesday - Drawing Notes and Standards Tuesday - Drawing Notes Pt2. Now I admit that it could be a bit overwhelming and a lot of information to remember but it doesn’t have to be that way. Wouldn’t it be great if you could create a library of all you most common drawing notes that you can just add to drawings and make only small changes as required. Using the Design Library that is already installed on your system is a great way to create a Notes Library.

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Making the Symbol Library Yours

Posted on May 24th, 2008 in Customize, Drawings, Productivity, SolidWorks, Standards by The SW Geek

On the last ‘Standards Tuesday’ I mentioned flagnotes and using the Symbol Library to insert them into your notes. For those who are not familiar with it, the Symbol Library is a library of commonly used symbols ranging from dimension symbols to weld symbols, also the most common flagnotes are available. The Symbol Library can be accessed in the FeatureManager by clicking the Add Symbol button, the one the looks like the centerline symbol. Also to refresh your memory, flagnotes are symbols listed with the General Notes that only apply to specific points and regions in a drawing. The Symbol Library should have just about every symbol you might need for your notes but there may be times, depending on your company standards, you may need additional symbols. Luckily, adding symbols to the symbol library is not as hard as it may seem.

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