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Building General Notes from the Bottom up

By Matt Lorono July 28, 2016
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Building General Notes from the Bottom up

There’s many old rules in Drafting. Some rules have obsolesced since the popularization of CAD. Other rules are now less common, but still have value for those who employ them. One such rule states that notes and tables may be

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Six-Session DraftSight Webinar Series Features Comprehensive Mechanical Design Training

By Mike Fearon August 19, 2014
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Six-Session DraftSight Webinar Series Features Comprehensive Mechanical Design Training

Join DraftSight Training Specialist Mark Lyons for a six-part, all-encompassing, hands-on training series where attendees will work to complete a mechanical design project from start to finish. During each one-hour session, Lyons will work alongside you to build upon work

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New in SolidWorks 2014: All Uppercase

By Matt Lorono November 12, 2013
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New in SolidWorks 2014: All Uppercase

For an added level of clarity, ASME requires that notes on drawings be capitalized, except for cases where lowercase is used as a common abbreviation.  SolidWorks 2014 now allows you to set any annotation note to be all uppercase, while

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SolidWorks Drawing Tip: Convert View to Sketch

By FISHER/UNITECH September 3, 2013
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SolidWorks Drawing Tip: Convert View to Sketch

I’ve been asked a couple of times if there was an easy way to tweak, change, or ‘fudge’ a drawing view. Some people want to change a line style, some may want to change a thickness, and some may just

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How to Roll Back a Revision in SolidWorks Enterprise PDM

By CAPINC July 8, 2013
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How to Roll Back a Revision in SolidWorks Enterprise PDM

Workflows in SolidWorks Enterprise PDM (EPDM) are designed to be pretty linear. Files start in the initial state in your workflow, cycle through your company’s approval process and end up in the released/approved sate at the end, where they are

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Improving Tech Pubs With SolidWorks Composer: Integrating Color

By CAPINC June 17, 2013
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Improving Tech Pubs With SolidWorks Composer: Integrating Color

So, we talk to a good number of customers about improving their internal pubs to reduce assembly errors and assembly time, and usually, the customer’s work instructions start off looking something like this: That’s the image the assembler has to

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How to overline text on a SolidWorks drawing

By Matt Lorono December 24, 2012
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How to overline text on a SolidWorks drawing

Remastered from SolidWorks Legion article entitled How to overline text on a SolidWorks drawing. Occasionally, a SolidWorks user may need to state a number or variable as approximate within an annotation note.  The mathematical symbol for this is an overline. 

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Discussion about Dual Dimensions

By Matt Lorono August 28, 2012
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Discussion about Dual Dimensions

This article is based on an article that originally appeared on SolidWorks Legion. Dual dimensioning is the drafting practice of using multiple units of measure in a dimension in the same direction of a feature. SolidWorks and many other CAD

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Clean Up Your SolidWorks Drawings With Auto Arrange Dimensions

By 3DVision Technologies June 18, 2012
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Clean Up Your SolidWorks Drawings With Auto Arrange Dimensions

One of my favorite enhancements to drawings over the past couple of years has got to be Auto Arrange Dimensions. This might be as close as you get to an ‘easy’ button in drawings…

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In drawings, how are breaks in projected Break views aligned with parent view’s breaks?

By Matt Lorono April 24, 2012
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In drawings, how are breaks in projected Break views aligned with parent view’s breaks?

Break views are common practice for some industries where long components do not fit well on standard sheet sizes at a useful scale. SolidWorks has a function to break views in the Break tool in the Drawing toolbar. However, what if there is a projected view of that component which must also have a break?

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