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Using the design library

Using the design library - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Using the design library

- [Narrator] The Design Library is a great resource to be able to save individual information, then reuse it throughout your design process. Let me give you a couple simple examples. Right over here I've got a note, called out on my design already. And if you wanted to create that note, it might take you a little while to go search out and find out what the ANSI standards might be, or some of the actual finishing standards and so on, so if you've done all that work, it might make sense to save that note into the Design Library. So if you go over here to the Library, click on this one, Design Library, and make sure you have this selected first, and then come over and click on "Add to Library". You can change the name of this, so I'm going to call it, like, "AL", so it's aluminum that's anodized, and then right now I'm going to save it into the "Annotations" folder, and then click on "OK". Once I've done that, notice it shows up right over here in my Design Library. Now any time you…

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