Drawings by hand: views, dimensions, GD&T, balloons, hole tables and a BOM
Drawing workspace → New drawing by hand opens a sheet editor with SolidWorks' Drawing, Annotation and Sheet Format commands: 47 in all. Place model, standard 3 view, projected, auxiliary, section, detail, broken-out, break and crop views. Dimension them (smart, diameter, angular, chamfer, ordinate, baseline, chain). Annotate with notes, balloons, surface finish, weld symbols, hole callouts, GD&T frames, datums, centre marks and hatches, and add hole tables, a BOM and a revision table.
Every view comes from the exact solid and every dimension is driven by it. The motor mount plate reads 120, ⌀22, R6 and 1 × 45°, and when the plate is made 140 wide the dimension follows. Projected views stay aligned with their parent and move with it, and an auxiliary view shows an inclined face at its true size.
The editor has the ribbon across the top, a PropertyManager and the drawing tree on the left, the sheet in the middle and sheet tabs below. The next item previews as you place it, and you can select, drag and delete. Every command is one undo step, and the drawing saves with the design.
Title block fields link to the part's custom properties. Drawings export to PDF, SVG and DXF at true scale: a 120 mm edge prints 340.157 pt at the drawing's scale.
Tested by hand in the app: the motor mount plate's drawing, with a front view, top and right projections, Section A-A, dimensions, a hole table, a GD&T frame, a balloon and a BOM, exported three ways.
Not yet: half, offset and aligned sections, Relative View, blocks, weld and bend tables, and drawings saving in projects made from a product's sliders. Core parity is now 141 of 239.
- Added
- Sheet editor: New drawing by hand
- 47 drawing, annotation and sheet format commands
- Hole table, BOM and revision table
- Title block linked to custom properties
- npm run test:drawing-editor
- Shipped in
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