SmartDrawings Utility

2D plans Layout
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Hi all

I would like to know if anyone of you regularly uses the SmartDrawings utility on SolidWorks.

And above all, what do you think?

So far, I haven't managed to use it but I'll dig around for tutorials.

Thank you in advance for your answers.

Have a good end of the day.

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Hello!

You will find the support file attached, you have to unzip it to be able to read it.

Have a nice day!


smartdrawings_fr.rar
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Hi Sebastien,

The most important thing to think about is a drawing document template (drwdot) that contains predefined views

Once these document templates are made, the rest of the setup is very simple.

Good luck 

 

Mick

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Hi Mick,

What do you mean by that?

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Well, SmartDrawings won't work if your drwdot document template doesn't contain pre-defined views.

I advise you to read @Aurélien Fives ' doc and rewatch in the SOLIDWORKS help to create pre-defined views in your document template.

In SolidWOrks, pre-defined views allow you to automatically pose views when you create your plan.

FYI, here's how to create a pre-defined view in a new document template:

File, New, Plan.

Insert,  Drawing View, Predefined, you put it down and orient it, you can repeat the operation to create several views, projected views of the pre-defined view...

Then you do a save as, and you select drawing template.

In SmartDraings, you must declare this document template.

Good luck

Mick

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