additional sheets
additional sheets
(OP)
When I create a drawing from my part, I also need to create additional sheets within that drawing for welds, inpection and so on. On each sheet that I add, I want my title block to be different than the primary page(reduced in size). I don't want to simply create 6 sheets or something pre-setup, I want Solidworks to read an alternate template each time I add a tab. So I suppose my question is, how do I set a default sheet for an additional page? Or is there another way to do this?
Thanks,
Joel Warnke
SolidWorks Premium 2008 SP3.1
Thanks,
Joel Warnke
SolidWorks Premium 2008 SP3.1






RE: additional sheets
Rob Rodriguez CSWP
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RE: additional sheets
-Dustin
Professional Engineer
Certified SolidWorks Professional
RE: additional sheets
-Dustin
Professional Engineer
Certified SolidWorks Professional
RE: additional sheets
RE: additional sheets
1. Create a new drawing template (drwdot) containing two sheets - your first sheet using the "first sheet" sheet format and then a single second sheet using the "following sheet" sheet format.
2. Go to Tools->Options, System Options tab, Drawings category and un-check "Show sheet format dialog on add new sheet"
If you create a drawing using that template, any sheets added to the drawing will automatically use the sheet format of the second sheet.
-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)
RE: additional sheets
I just developed a method to allow SolidWorks Drawing Templates to use two completely different sheet formats, one for Sheet 1, and one for all subsequent sheets!
For anyone who wishes to use different sheet formats for a drawing template (one for sheet 1 and one for the other sheets), they usually have to directly load the correct sheet format for the subsequent sheets. I have discovered how to do this without requiring any action from the user. The steps will be posted tomorrow on my blog. In the meantime, I've posting a preliminary article here:
http://www.fcsuper.com/swblog/?p=98.
This has kind of been the holy grail when it comes to sheet Format/Drawing Template manipulation in SolidWorks. I wish someday SolidWorks will embed this functionality into SW, but until then, the method I found will work great.
Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
and Mechnical.Engineering Yahoo! Group
RE: additional sheets
-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)
RE: additional sheets
To quote a funny skit from SWW8 "Too many steps!" Yes, that is too much to ask of the user, actually. I've been looking to short cut it for years. My opinion is that SW Corp. should've built this function into SW years ago.
Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
and Mechnical.Engineering Yahoo! Group