- This movie's going to be the quick start
for creating a drawing.
Now, a drawing can be built from,
either a part or an assembly.
In this case, I'm going to be doing a drawing
of this part here you see on the screen.
All right, let's go ahead up to file,
and come down here to make, oh, there it is.
Make drawing from part.
That's going to pull up our drawing dialogue box.
And right inside here,
I've got a bunch of different options.
I can choose the size of the drawing.
I'm going to choose this ANSI C size,
and depending if you've selected some other templates,
you can use those as well.
But for right now, let's just go ahead
and just choose this basic drawing.
Click on Okay.
And there's our new drawing.
And now I can bring in a view.
So right over here on the right hand side,
can see the front view,
the top view, right, back, and so on.
Let's try the front view.
So just drag that into our drawing,
and notice that we automatically get a little center point.
And notice what's happening now.
Is because I started with that view,
now I have these projected views.
And if I move around that model,
it's getting a projection,
of that same part in different angles, right?
So if I want a projection this way,
just go ahead and click there.
And if I want to continue on,
I can put one there.
And if I want to feel really fancy,
I can put one up here.
When you're done, hit Escape.
So that turns that feature off.
So now I can move that around.
Now notice what happens,
if I move the original part that I put on there,
these other views are automatically moving,
because they're actual projections.
So if I move this,
this one has to move.
Otherwise it wouldn't be a true projection,
of the original part.
So place these where you wanT.
You can adjust these in and out,
but you can't move them right or left.
Same thing over here.
Now let's go ahead and add some dimensions.
So over here under annotation; smart dimension.
I'm going to zoom in just using the scroll on my mouse,
and go ahead and just add a couple dimensions.
This is two inches there.
And let's go ahead and add one more.
There it is. Two inches there.
We could say like how long this part is,
There it is.
Maybe from there to there.
So a couple things we're going to be adding.
And most of the time when you go into a drawing,
you're going to be adding views,
then you're going to be adding dimensions.
And then you might be adding notes,
or specific call outs for like finishes,
or things like that.
You might put a bill on materials; a design table.
There's a whole bunch of things you can add to a drawing,
but fundamentally you're going to be adding parts,
adding some dimensions,
and then typing in a type of material.
And then maybe filling out this block down here.
So you've got to part number.
You might want to add a revision.
And these things are linked back to the part itself.
So if I go back and I modify the part,
the title will show up.
So let's go ahead and take a look at how that happens.
So let's go ahead and click on any one of these views.
I can say, open part, directly from there,
and right inside of here,
under the file properties,
under custom properties,
you can see there's nothing in there.
Now, if I fill something out,
let's just try something super simple.
Let's click on the dropdown,
and let's choose something like the revision.
So here's revision,
let's say this is going to be revision A,
click on Okay.
Now, let's go ahead and save our part.
And then head back over to that drawing.
Okay. All right.
The drawing updates and nothing happens.
Because the template we chose,
didn't really have it filled out.
So in this case,
the file template over here,
has the revision.
So here's a revision.
I type in A, click Okay.
And now it shows up.
So depending on which template you're using,
depends on where it's going to be getting information from.
So in this template here,
it's getting that information
from the drawing template itself.
Whereas I bet you if we go back over here,
to the part itself,
and this time we change the name,
or the description,
and we'll call us one part one,
click on Okay,
then head back over to the drawing,
and notice over here,
that now that part one does show up under the title.
Cause that's a description.
So you can define where the values come from,
inside of your drawings,
related to either to the part itself,
or it's just something you to type in on the drawing level.
But you generally don't want to be typing directly
in the sheet in this area here,
you want to be pulling or referencing
these values from somewhere else.
Now this is associative.
So if I go back and I change the part,
this drawing should automatically update.
Let's go see if that happens.
So right now you can see it's two inches by two inches.
Let's head back over to that part,
and come back into here.
And this time I'm going to look at that sketch.
I'm going to say, edit sketch.
And instead of two inches,
let's go ahead and be really wild,
and change it to four.
Exit back out.
The part should automatically update.
Head back over to that drawing.
And now you can see automatically,
that that part did update,
and now it's four inches by four inches,
but everything else stayed the same.
You might have to adjust the drawing a little bit,
but overall there it is.
That's your first drawing inside of SolidWorks.
And again, it's associative to the part itself.
So you can actually draw these views.
You pull those views in,
the associative back to the part.
If you modify or change the part,
the drawing will automatically update,
with that same information.
And again, it's also going to be referencing
some of those custom properties,
for the information that goes down into the block.