From the course: Designing a Sheet Metal Enclosure with SOLIDWORKS

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Saving to DXF or DWG

Saving to DXF or DWG - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: Designing a Sheet Metal Enclosure with SOLIDWORKS

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Saving to DXF or DWG

In this movie, we're going to be saving out a DWG or DXF file. I have the 6.4-1 part drawing opened up, and I'm at the same point that I left off in the last movie. And we're ready to save out our DWG or DXF file at this point in time. I just want to go over a few of the options and things we can look at for doing so. Now, it's pretty simple once you've got this scaled 1 to 1. Before we do anything else, let's double check that we've got that. So right-click anywhere in the Drawing view. Go to Properties, and make sure it does say 1 to 1 here, and we've got a sheet size that's reasonable for it to fit onto. Click OK and then again click on the item it self. And slide down and make sure you've got scale as usheet scale and make sure that sheet is 1 to 1. So, at that point in time we're good to go. I do also want to point out that we are referencing the 6.2 files here, but we're on the 6.4 drawingsheet. Okay. Now, at this point just go up to File > Save As and if it gives you this…

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