Please watch the overview video below before attempting any assignments requiring the creation of drawings. When discussing drawings in this class, I often put a twist on the Rocket Mortgage “ push button – get mortgage” ad by saying “ push button – get drawings”. It is particularly challenging to get everything scaled properly for printing and don’t even get me started on how cumbersome it is to dimension a drawing or even add notes! I think you’ll find that creating drawings in Solidworks is quite easy. If you’ve had the displeasure of creating drawings in a 2D CAD system, you know how tedious it can be. Thus, we say that 2D CAD is “drawing-centric” while 3D parametric systems (like Solidworks and Inventor) are “model-centric”. Note that when using a 2D CAD system (like AutoCAD), drawings are pretty much what we are creating in the first place. In the workflow followed by most organizations, 2D drawings are created after models and assemblies are created and finalized. This control process is called configuration management and you will certainly be exposed to it when you work in industry. Drawings are very carefully controlled by an organization to ensure that the latest version (or “revision”) of the drawing is used by everyone in the process.

Although 3D models are becoming increasingly employed during manufacturing, 2D drawings are still used extensively during the manufacturing process. As we all know, drawings are typically 2D representations of parts and assemblies.

This chapter introduces us to the third and final “mode” of Solidworks – DRAWINGS. CHAPTER 1 4 WORKING WITH DRAWING VIEWS – I

The resulting model is empty solidworks