Default Drawing View Display in a New Drawing

[ng89]

We have a number of drawing templates at my company. On every one of them, new views that are brought in come in as "Hidden Lines Visible". Just recently (somebody was probably messing with my templates), on just one of our templates, all new views come in with "Hidden Lines Removed".

I would like to change the default behavior on this template back to "Hidden Lines Visible," but for the life of me I can not figure out how.

Any ideas?

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Change the settings to the way you want them and then do a Save as and select Drawing Templates (*.drwdot).

 

[Timelord]

ng89,

System options -- Drawings -- Display Style

Timelord

 

[ng89]

CorBlimeyLimey, I appreciate the response, but that's not what I was asking about. I am unable to get the settings the way I want them.

Timelord, My first thought was that setting, but it is only one template that is giving me the undesired result. A system option would be a global setting for your computer and would affect all drawings if it were the driving factor. I did check that however, and it is set corretly.

Does anyone have any ideas how to change just the one template to have new views come in with hidden lines visible like the rest of the templates?

 

[ctopher]

It is what CorBlimeyLimey wrote. Start a new dwg with the template in question. Change the view settings, then save as to overwrite the old template.

Chris
SolidWorks 07 3.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 04-21-07)

 

[ng89]

I understand how to save out a template. What I can't figure out is how to have a new view come in with hidden lines visible.

Under System Options -> Drawings -> Display Style, I have and have always had "Hidden Lines Visible" checked. There is something else driving this partcular document to bring in new views with hidden lines removed.

 

[fcsuper]

Ng89,

The same answer keeps getting repeated because that is the correct course of action per how you described what you are doing and what you want. Are their further details that might explain why the provided answer isn't working?

For example, the file itself might be corrupt for some reason. Have you tried starting a new template from scratch, with the proper settings, to see if the problem remains?

Matt
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
sw.fcsuper.com
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group

 

[ng89]

I think you're right, fcsuper, it's probably a corrupted file.

Because of this one template that is giving me fits, I assumed that how new views were brought in was somehow imbedded into each template (as in it was some sort of Document Property).

But to test it out, I just switched my system display option to "Shaded" on new views - and new views come into all old templates as shaded (except the bad file where it still comes in with hidden lines removed).

I'll just start this one over from scratch.

Thanks.