- Once you've moved beyond
the Simple Smart Dimension callouts,
you may want to add a Surface Finish callout
to your drawing.
To find the Surface Finish feature,
go to the Command Manager and click on the Annotation tab.
In the center of the screen
you'll find the Surface Finish feature.
Click it to activate it,
and simply go down and select the edge
to which you would like to add the annotation.
I'm going to click on this edge again,
repeating my previous note.
You'll notice like many of our other annotations,
it stays activated until you hit the green check box
or hit Escape.
If you want to edit the Surface Finish callout
simply click on it, and over in the left side
in the Property Manager you will find
all of the customizations available to Surface Finish.
Now I'm not going to go through and explain
every single detail about Surface Finish.
I will advise that at the end of the day
to really get what you want to achieve
it is going to require a conversation
between you and the manufacturer.
You may dictate a certain surface finish,
but due to the manufacturing capabilities
that your vendor has it just might not be possible.
Now, inside of our Symbol callout
we have our roughness values,
we have our machining allowance,
we also have our maximum waviness spacing,
and then also our lay symbol down at the bottom here.
SolidWorks makes this really easy to customize it,
change angles, change directions,
even add leaders or take them away,
with all the other options that you expect
from SolidWorks annotations.
You can see here that I also have another annotation
that I simply dragged out and customized
with the 125 roughness for that particular surface.
Now, again, I don't want to dictate to you
what roughness values you should be using in your designs.
You'll have to look through the roughness guides
that you're provided by your manufacturers
or the standard tables that are available
in many engineering references.