CAPUniversity » Drawing http://blog.capinc.com The CAPINC Technical Blog - SolidWorks Tip & Tricks Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:30:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 SolidWorks Title Block Tips http://blog.capinc.com/2010/04/tbtips/ http://blog.capinc.com/2010/04/tbtips/#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:45:06 +0000 Michael LaFleche http://blog.capinc.com/?p=617 titleblockA question that pops up from time to time with our customers is how to create a Title Block. More specifically, the description field. Many times, a description for a part on the drawing will not fit on one line of text. This is in many cases rectified by adding another field for the second line or third line. While this serves it’s purpose of producing a drawing that can be printed and sent out for manufacturing, a sinister problem surfaces. The custom property field for description is no longer one field that is easily searched for in a a PDM or ERP system. So if you set up your SolidWorks properties to be synchronized with your ERP system’s item Master or even on your BOM on the assembly drawing, the note for description is truncated.

To solve this issue, the flexible and stretchable annotation field comes to the rescue. To enable this, double-click the note and a border appears around the note. Drag the handles surrounding the note to fit to your description box in your title block. To make filling out the title block even more seamless, use the “Title Block Area” functionality to edit the description without having to go back to the part model The YouTube video below will show how to accomplish this.

]]> http://blog.capinc.com/2010/04/tbtips/feed/ 0 Create a new view in a Drawing http://blog.capinc.com/2010/01/newviewdraw/ http://blog.capinc.com/2010/01/newviewdraw/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:55:51 +0000 Michael LaFleche http://blog.capinc.com/?p=168 NewViewHave you ever wanted to to change the orientation of a view in a drawing after you have inserted a view? There is a little know function that allows a user to rotate / pan or zoom in a model view in a drawing. Typically one can use this function to add a dimension to a hidden feature. When you choose the OK button, it then reverts back to the original view position. However, if you want to save the view’s rotated state, use our old friend the space bar to invoke the old school view dialog box. Here, you can save the view orientation, choose the OK check mark and then change the view from the current view to the new view that you just saved. Cool huh? new_view_drawing

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