- [Instructor] When creating detailed 2D drawings
including dimensions, tolerances, and other annotations,
it's good to know where your options are
to adjust all of these dimensional properties.
So if you go up to the top of your screen
when you're in a drawing and click on the options button,
you can then switch over to the document properties
and find underneath the drafting standards
many of the settings they're available
inside of your drawings.
Also options available down here for your drawing sheets.
Now we're not going to cover all of these here
and we're going to go in depth
in a couple of these and other drawings,
but a few that I want to highlight specifically.
One, your annotations and the various ways
that you can adjust them.
Right here is a good way to adjust
all of the font properties of all of your notes in one spot.
When it says linked to the file properties
for the annotations,
this is what it's talking about.
Dimensions is another one.
You can adjust your dimensions in various different ways.
Most of these options you'll also find available
in the dimension property manager
which we're going to take a look at in the next video.
But some that are really interesting
and that I like to highlight specifically
are how you handle trailing zeros.
If you want to handle your trailing zeros
in different ways depending on your precision,
you can adjust that here.
You can remove them,
you can show them,
you can remove only on the zero.
Various options depending on how you want to output
that information but definitely a good one
to pay attention to.
Also, if we scroll back up,
we can see our defaults for dual dimensioning,
what our arrow sizes are
if you're trying to fall within a specific standard
or create custom arrow sizes,
you can adjust those here.
Also your offsets where the annotations
are going to lie based on how far away they are
from the model item that you're assigning the dimension to.
You can also do things like affect the gap
in between the dimensions and the item specifically
also for your extension lines
and for break dimension extensions.
So a lot of things that you can customize inside of here
but it's good to make these adjustments at this level
instead of doing it at every single dimension.
It becomes a lot easier.
One more that you might want to mess around with
are your tables.
And again, this expands out and you can do a lot with it.
But again, if you want to have a specific font
inside of your tables
or do some specific formatting around it
because of the way your plotter or printer works
and it looks a certain way,
you can do all of that right here.
I'm going to scroll down some more.
The other option that I like to point out
is the drawing sheets area.
Let's say, for example, that you want every time
they make a new sheet
for them not to pull the default template
or a template that you have,
but another template
you can assign that right here by saying
use different sheet format and browse to it.
Let's say you have a color material
and finish sheet that you want for your second sheet
but it isn't created by default in your template,
you can point to that here by simply saying browse
and navigating to the location of that template.
And you can also do things like affect the orientations
of your zones and where they begin.
So by default, we're going to the lower right.
So if we look over at our drawing from the lower right
we have A, B, one, two.
You can switch that orientation as well.
Sometimes you want to switch to the other side,
you have that option here.
One last one to pay attention to is your image quality.
You'll notice that my image quality is turned down a lot.
I'm trying to get a lot of performance
out of this drawing right now zooming in and out.
But if I print it out on my printer
and it doesn't look amazing
or the line thicknesses
and other details aren't coming out as expected,
it might be a good idea
to turn up your image quality before printing.
These are just a few of the various options
inside of the drawings.
You'll also find your units
but that one you can also find
by clicking down here as usually in the SolidWork screen
on the edit units box.
Adjusting all of these settings
will give you the ability to adjust the complete drawing
not just singular items as you move around.
It can really speed things up.