- [Instructor] When you begin a new drawing
in SolidWorks, sometimes you don't pick the right size,
or based on the template that you pull up,
you want to make some changes, let's say,
to what the title block looks like.
You want to change the proprietary
and confidentiality note down below.
There are a lot of things you might want to change.
Using SolidWorks properties
and some of the Edit Sheet features,
we can do this very quickly.
So first thing that I want to approach
in this particular example is that I have a drawing
with my four views and it doesn't quite fit
onto this A-size Landscape drawing.
So what I'm going to do is
I'm going to right-click in the middle of the screen,
go down to the double arrows here
to expand to see the entire menu,
and I'm going to click on Properties.
This pulls up the drawing properties.
Right now, I'm using an A Landscape drawing template.
I'm going to switch this down to a B Landscape drawing template
and hit Apply Changes.
When I do that you can see
that the sheet in the back changes,
and I have a lot more space on the drawing to play with.
I can put my isometric view up in the top-right corner,
I can drag the other views,
and then begin dimensioning accordingly.
Now, if I want to change the layout
of this particular format or this sheet,
I can right-click again and go to Edit Sheet Format.
When I click on this it takes me into a new layer
where now I'm editing the sheet.
You'll know that that's going on because up in the top
you'll see this little icon
that shows the Exit Sheet icon.
Just like you're doing when you exit a sketch
or when you exit another feature,
you're inside of the Edit Sheet mode,
and then you're going to exit that
when you're done making the changes.
So for example, I'm going to go down here.
I don't want to have all these extra comments or this note
so I'm going to select these items and delete them.
I'm going to go over to Skecth and Trim,
trim out all these line items.
Oop, I went too far.
I'm going to hit Control + Z, which you can do.
Try again, get a nice clean trim
without hitting that bottom boarder.
All right, just a couple more notes to select.
Holding down Control, I click on each of those
and hit Delete and now I'm all done.
I've got a little bit smaller template
with all the information that I need on it.
I'm going to go ahead and click Exit Edit Sheet.
Now I'm back in the drawing mode, if you will,
and you can see here you can toggle
by going to Edit Sheet Format,
or while you're in the format,
right-click again and do Edit Sheet.
So you're switching between the sheet and the format.