×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

What's the difference

What's the difference

What's the difference

(OP)
.
What's the difference between .DRWDOT and .slddrt extensions ?

I tried to find an answer by doing "search" but no luck sad

RE: What's the difference

DRWDOT dwg template
slddrt dwg sheet format (custom props)

Did you do a search in SW Help?

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks Pro 06/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716

RE: What's the difference

Search the SWx help for customized sheet formats

Best Regards,

Heckler
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
SW2005 SP 5.0 & Pro/E 2001
Dell Precision 370
P4 3.6 GHz, 1GB RAM
XP Pro SP2.0
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
      o
  _`\(,_
(_)/ (_)

Never argue with an idiot. They'll bring you down to their level and beat you with experience every time.

RE: What's the difference

(OP)

Quote:

DRWDOT dwg template
slddrt dwg sheet format (custom props)

Don't get it.

Using WinExplorer I renamed *.slddrt to *.DRWDOT and now *.DRWDOT shows up when clicked NEW (file) - which is O.K. and after adding view(s) saves as *.SLDDRW.

What am I missing here ?

RE: What's the difference

A Template (slddot) is the file that corresponds to a part template, assembly template, and holds all of the document specific settings, such as font, colors, layers, etc.  A template has a sheet or sheets, but there is nothing on the sheets.

A Format (slddrt) is the border that goes on a drawing sheet.  This contains notes, links to properties, logos, and the lines that comprise the drawing border.

The two files can be saved separately, or the Format can be saved within a Template.  This is the way I set up my drawings.  I save Templates with different size Formats in them for B, C, D size drawings.  

Once you start a drawing from a Template, you can change the Format for each sheet.

It's all very confusing, especially if youve been around for a while and remember when what are called "templates" today didn't exist, and what are called "formats" today used to be called "templates".  That's why Formats have an extension like sldDRT (used to stand for "DRawing Template"), and the new templates have the extension sldDOT, like the MS Office convention.

Anyway, if you're not even more confused yet, go back and read the last paragraph a couple of times.

RE: What's the difference

... also, don't rename SW files in WinExpl. Use SW Expl. Will save you headaches. Some are OK to rename in WinExpl, but I suggest SW beginners to use SW Expl.

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks Pro 06/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716

RE: What's the difference

Don't rename your Templates and sheet formats at all. Either open them up in SW and do a file\Save as

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376

RE: What's the difference

(OP)

Quote:

dezignstuff:
Once you start a drawing from a Template, you can change the Format for each sheet.

1) So if I get it right, I should start a drawing with a "blank" *. slddot  and then "overlay" it with a "size" I want that I pick from the pop up window. Correct ?

2) On an "unrelated" subject - should I keep the sheet scale "default" (that is whatever is assigned when the view is put on it) and change the view scale or should I change individual view scales (assume that all views will have in the end the same scale) ?  I guess - probably irrelevant, but would like to hear from others.

RE: What's the difference

jacek,

1)  Yes.  Or you could save Templates (slddot) with Formats in them already so you have a B size template with the border (format) already on it.  Some people choose to have generic Templates and then choose which Format to put on it when they start the drawing.  Both ways work.

2)  I would scale the entire sheet except for certain types of views like detail views, or cutaways.  If you change from a B size to a C size drawing and you want to change from 1:4 to 1:2, you just change the sheet scale, and all the views will update.

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources