×
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

Architectural symblols / blocks in SolidWorks

Architectural symblols / blocks in SolidWorks

Architectural symblols / blocks in SolidWorks

(OP)
Does anybody have experience with putting architectural types of symbology in SW drawings?  I need to be able to put in column numbers, preferably in a balloon format, but I also need them inside a part sketch so that the remainder of the building can be modeled based on the column data.  Think of a skeleton sketch with a grid representing column locations, where columns will be placed at intersections.  

Second, I need to be able to do blocks for other symbols required in an architectural drawing, such as the large view indicator arrows that are used in architectural detail drawings to indicate elevation views, which I intend to do with projected views, which will not even be on the same sheet, thus the need for view indicator arrows.  I figured there must be a library available or a partner product that could make these types of symbols available in SW, but there doesn't seem to be anything out there.  I know SW is not geared for architectural, but the industry that I want to use it in is straddling the mechanical and architectural worlds, and 3D would really help.

RE: Architectural symblols / blocks in SolidWorks

Do a search for dwg and dxf symbols. There must be plenty online for free. Add them or create them on a drawing and create a block.

Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 1.1
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 10-07-07)
ctopher's blog

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