From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2013-2017: Sheet Metal Design
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Looking at sheet options - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2013-2017: Sheet Metal Design
Looking at sheet options
When working with Sheet metal, there are a few sheet options we might want to look at, to make things a little bit easier for us. If we go up here to the Options tab at the top of the screen and open it up. You can see that we've got a few different options under System Options or Document Properties. So, under Document Properties, you come down to the very bottom, there's actually a tab for Sheet metal. So, we can add a lot of data here. We can look at bend lines, I can change the directions and colors of different items here. I can look at bend notes, and where I'd like them if I want to add bend notes above, below, or with leader, if I'm going to add them to the drawing. I can come down and change the text, I can change the Leader options. A lot of things here I can just kind of play with to make sure that's looking good. I also want to point out up here under detailing, auto instead on creation is a much thing that we can check mark here in turn on. One of the ones I like to use a…
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