Today I am going to show you how to add an appearance and how to adjust it so it looks just like you want it to.įirst, I am going to start out with a blank sheet metal part. SOLIDWORKS has a lot of great options for adding surface finish appearances to give your models a more realistic feel. If you change any of these settings, you can save them and make them permanent by saving the template again.We recently received a support call where a customer had added a surface finish appearance but it did not appear on his model. Just as a final note to add in, all Document Properties are driven by the template. You can do this if you’d like, but you might want to just use Insert Model when right clicking the view. You cannot open in insert a part traditionally when you have predefined views. Now your template is saved! Let’s open it up and test it out with a different part. You’ll get a warning, basically stating that the views will go blank. I’m going to give it a new name because I still want my default, blank template. Go to File > Save As… and select Drawing Template. Let’s move the Isometric view up here and add in a revision table. As well, bringing in a test part will make you notice that your date field is too large for the box you have! Let’s go in and edit that. You can do this from the menus, but I find this is faster with a simple part, and easier to keep track if you have multiple views. Just open any part you want and bring in an isometric view. We’re going to add a predefined Isometric view. Right click the sheet and press Edit Sheet. Select the property for SW-Creation-Date (Date). We want this to be the date in which the part was created, so we will select model found here. On the left side, press the Link to Property button. In this case, we’re just going to use the basic, SOLIDWORKS programmed ones. There are a lot of custom properties you can create and drive from here. However, if you have multiple users sharing this template, you can have it driven from the Author in the custom properties. Since my initials won’t change, I’m just going to add them straight onto the drawing using a note. I’m just going to add my initials, and the creation date of the part.
Right click the sheet, and select Edit Sheet Format We’re going to do some minor edits, but you can always add more to your format if you’d like.
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