- [Instructor] Let's dive a little deeper
into working with drawing templates.
Now the last movie we created a drawing template,
and I've copied that same template over here
to this folder, which is the 15_02 folder,
and here it is under just called Draw1,
and I'm going to go ahead and open that one up.
Okay, now in this one, we added a picture for our icon,
but it's generally a good idea,
instead of adding a picture is to add more
of a line type of art, like a DWG or DXF file.
That way, if you're photocopying
or printing these documents,
if you printed it multiple times,
or you photocopied it multiple times,
a lot of times, images will just turn
into being black blobs, whereas if you actually have kind
of line art, it will always look pretty good.
So let me show you how to bring in
a line art version of that same logo.
So right over here,
I need to turn on the block toolbar.
So if I click right up here, anywhere,
I can come over here to tool bars
and come over here to blocks.
So turn that on.
Notice it shows up right over here on the right hand side,
but it's dockable, so it could show up anywhere
on your screen and just dock it
wherever you happen to like it.
So I'm going to dock right back over here,
and then I'm going to go over here,
and instead of make block, I want to say insert block,
and there's actually quite a bit of blocks already
on this drawing, but I want to switch over here and browse,
and I want to browse into the quick access desktop.
And over here, I'm going to go down to chapter 15,
15_02, and notice there's nothing shown here.
That's because I'm looking for a SOLIDWORKS block,
but I also have the option to look
for a DWG file or a DXF file.
And I actually do have one called LOGO.dxf.
Click on that one, click on open,
and now that block comes in attached to my tool tip.
The only problem is it's pretty big,
so I'm going to go ahead and make this a little bit smaller.
I'm going to type in 0.01
and see if that works.
And just about the right side.
Little bit big still.
You could type in 0.05.
See what happens there.
So we can scale that very small if we'd like
and then swap this one out in our drawing
like we have this other one.
The only problem here is what I did
is I actually added this logo on the main drawing,
not actually in the sheet format.
So if you wanted to add this in the sheet format,
what we need to do is right click anywhere
in the gray area and say edit sheet format first.
That way, that will be actually on the format,
not actually in the drawing.
So it really depends on how you want to bring in a graphic.
If you want it to be specifically for that drawing,
then you bring it on the drawing mode.
If you wanted to actually edit the format of the sheet
so it's always there,
you'd do exactly the same thing right over here.
You just click over here and say insert block,
scale like we just did 0.05.
No, we wanted the logo one, here it is.
0.05, click into there,
and now you can see we've scaled that down to there.
All right, so there's how we can drop it either way
into our design and then exit out of that,
and now we have one sitting on top of the other one,
but that's okay, because we can just delete one of those,
and we have the other logo.
So that's working on the edit sheet format mode.
Now, once that you've done that,
we might want to change a few other things in this drawing.
So I head up here to the options folder.
Inside of there, we've got all types of options.
We have system options as well as document properties.
Now system options control your entire installation
of SOLIDWORKS, so they're not applying only
to this one drawing, whereas over here
under document properties, that only applies
to the drawing you're working with
or the template you happen to be editing.
So if you edit the template, drawing properties,
then it'll will always show up,
every time you start a new drawing using that template,
you'll have those same properties.
So when there's system options,
you can see we've got a whole bunch
of different things we can look at,
the way drawings and how SOLIDWORKS operates.
So you can just click
through these individual little folders here
and see what is available,
all the different options you can go through and do.
The ones that we're looking at
most time here are the default templates
or the file locations, right?
If you're going to add in a new folder,
where you're going to save your templates at,
this is where you do it.
We've already looked at that a little bit,
and click on add, you can bring those in.
But definitely look through all these different options here
for your installation of SOLIDWORKS.
Now when we switch over here to document properties,
this is where we're actually looking at drafting standards
and what annotations look like
and which fonts we're going to be using
and how do balloons work, geometric tolerances and so on.
So there's a whole bunch of things we can customize
in the document properties, right?
A big one is dimensions.
You know, what do our dimensions look like,
right, down here?
We have things like units.
Super important, right?
How do we want our units to be displayed?
Do we want to be in millimeters,
or do we want to be in inches?
How many decimal places are we looking for?
Right over here, so you can adjust all those things
in this template.
You can even come down, do things like detailing.
You can automatically add in like center marks
or dowel symbols and things like that to your drawings
when they're created.
But once you've finished making all these changes,
click on okay, and now I have to make sure
that I save all these changes to my template, right?
So to do that, let's go up here first
and go up and say save sheet format.
And in the folder 15-2, I've got this LinkedIn template.
I'm going to actually switch over here
and overwrite this other one, so 15_2 template,
and I'm going to go ahead and overwrite it.
Let's click on save and replace it.
More than likely,
you're probably not going to already have that file,
but if you do, just overwrite it,
and now, I've saved out the format.
Now what I need to do is link that format to this template.
So what I want to do now is right-click
and come over here to properties.
And if you don't see properties, which are right here,
you have to make sure you turn 'em on at the bottom.
But right over here is the browse,
and notice this is the template that's being used,
and notice it's that LinkedIn drawing template,
not the one I just saved out.
So click on browse,
head over here to the desktop exercise files,
chapter 15,
and then inside of there is that new sheet format.
Click on open.
It's going to now use that sheet format, apply the changes,
and then come over here and do file save as.
So it's already a SOLIDWORKS drawing.
We want to save it as a SOLIDWORKS drawing template,
and notice we've got the drawing template over here,
and we're in the wrong folder,
so let's make sure we jump over here to the right folder,
which is that chapter 15.
And there it is.
So we started with Draw1, that drawing template,
and now I want to overwrite that, or actually not overwrite,
I want to make a new one, which is the final version.
So it's _FIN is my final drawing template
that now uses all those edits
that we changed in our drawing.
Go ahead and overwrite that.
Click on save, replace it, yes,
and now we're all set up with our latest
and greatest new drawing template
with the right logo where we want it.
It's a DXF file,
and we've made our modifications to the units
and the way everything looks,
and now it should be ready to start working
with our template in our regular SOLIDWORKS workflow.