From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2016 Essential Training
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SOLIDWORKS templates - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2016 Essential Training
SOLIDWORKS templates
- When you open a brand new document inside of SOLIDWORKS, you get this window here. It gives you three options to create a part, an assembly, or a drawing. What these are, they're using templates to start an individual part, assembly, or drawing. I also have the option to click on this advanced toolbar. Down here I can see I have got a bunch of other options here. I have a couple of tabs at the top with different part, assembly, and drawing templates. Now, I can have as many templates as I'd like in each one of these categories. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to click on templates and click on part, and start a brand new part using that template, whatever one I had preselected. Now I can go up to the top here, and I can choose options, and inside of there I can change both system options as well as document properties, and, for instance, I'm going to change maybe my units to instead of a two place decimal to a three place decimal, and then click on OK. I also might change my…
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