- [Narrator] When you're sketching in a drawing,
sometimes you want to do things like change the line weight,
change the appearance, the color, the thickness,
all of those things.
By default, you don't see those options on your GUI
so what you're going to want to do
is right click on the command ribbon.
Go down to where it says line format
and this is going to bring the line format tool bar up.
Now if you select any sketch or sketch entities
that you have in a drawing, I'm going to select this line
for example, I can go down here and select the line color
and change that.
Right now it's set to the default blue,
but I'm going to change that to red.
Go ahead and click okay and then when I click off it,
you can see that that line is now red.
Now you'll notice when I zoom in and out of the line,
they basically hold the same relative thickness
no matter how far you are zoomed in and out.
I mean in reality a lot of times you're printing out
these drawings on actual paper.
That line has an actual thickness.
So if you want to control that, what you do is select the line
or group of lines by holding down control
and clicking on them.
Go down to that line format toolbar again
and select line thickness.
Now you can select a custom size
but it gives you a set of defaults that you can select.
I'm going to go ahead and pick the O197 thickness
and you can see that
that just beefed up the size of my lines.
Those are much thicker now and as I zoom in and out
they still hold relatively the same thickness
but on my paper when I actually physically print them
that's going to produce a thicker line.
So those are the main ways
that you're going to adjust the lines that you're working on.
You can also do things like add layers
and change the layers, but typically in SOLIDWORKS,
we're just working on the main layer or in the format layer
of the sheet and not editing too many other things.
But you will want to be able to change colors
and adjust the line thickness depending on
how you're printing or what you want to highlight
in your drawing.