- When creating your SolidWorks drawings,
you might be trying to adhere
to a specific engineering standard.
A quick way to make sure that your drawings,
are following those specific standards by default,
is to go up to your Systems Options,
go to the Document Properties,
and here under the Drafting Standard,
you'll find the Overall drafting standard options.
Right now, I'm using an ISO modified option,
but you'll notice if you click from the drop down,
you can find ANSI, ISO, DIN, JIS,
and the other standards, that you might be looking to use.
If you have a drawing that's already been created,
and you want to switch it quickly,
you can just go in here and say,
okay, switch it to the ANSI standard.
Click, OK.
And then by default, it's going to update the dimensions,
notations and everything else on the drawing,
to match that standard.
If you want to go back,
you just simply go back into your Systems Options,
go to the Document Properties and from the dropdown,
select your own standard.
Now like you would, for a solid works drawing template,
you can also modify these standards,
so that they can be saved out and loaded by other people.
So, originally I had an ISO modified,
because I went in here,
and modified some of the other properties.
So let's say if for example, I go into the annotations,
and change this to Comic Sans.
We wouldn't do that,
but just to show you now,
my Drafting Standard has been modified,
and I can go back to the Drafting Standard area,
and say Save to External File.
And I can make, Dave's Standard,
to be used by other people, or other members of my company.
Just remember where you save this file,
so that you can again go back,
and load it, when you want to share it with other people.