- The final step in the process
for creating drawings for assemblies,
is coming down here,
making sure that all of your title block information
is correct.
I noticed over here that I don't have my name in here
as well as the date when I finished the drawing.
And if you're sending this out to maybe your manager
or engineering approval,
these guys would then writing in here.
So make sure you're taking a look at that.
Notice material and finish don't have anything in them.
Obviously this is an assembly,
so you don't have a material or finish,
but you just might say, like NA in there.
The other thing you might want to note
is the projection view, third angle projection,
or first angle projection.
It doesn't really matter that much in this case here,
because we are kind of looking at the entire thing,
but those are just a couple things to note.
Obviously you want to update your title block with your logo
and your pertinent company information,
as well as the proprietary confidential information
you see down here.
So, make sure you take a look at all those things.
If you do need to link something back together,
obviously, if you open up this assembly,
all that information is under the "File Properties".
So you can create these custom properties here,
and link them back to that drawing.
And then if I head back over here to the drawing again,
the last thing I want to point out is the revision level.
So, notice we're at revision A right now.
And up here, we've got revision A,
which is our initial release.
We want to come in here
and type in the date as well as the approval.
And as you start modifying the parting time,
you make a modification to the assembly,
or one of the parts,
you want to come in here and add a new revision.
So right-click here and say "Revisions"
and say, "Add Revision" right over here.
And that'll add revision B.
And notice this little cursor that shows up,
or this little circle that shows up on my cursor,
anywhere you click, it's going to add a little B showing
that is where the change is being made.
So, this is the revision symbol.
Hit Escape when you're done.
Type what is happening or what changed in that revision,
and then make sure you're also putting in the correct date
as well as who approved the drawing.
Those are the main things
for creating nice quality drawings.
Now also when you're done with these tasks,
you also might want to come in,
and save out your drawing as a PDF file,
because PDF files are a lot easier to send
than SolidWorks drawings,
and you can easily do that under File --> Save As,
and one of the options is a PDF file,
as well as all these other great things, but here's PDF.
Save that and save that out to whatever file system.
That makes things a lot easier.
It also makes a great snapshot of the design
at that exact date and time.
So you know exactly where you were
when you created that drawing.
And if you have different revisions,
you can easily save
all those different revisions to different PDFs.
So you can go back and review them
and see what change between one revision and the next.