How To Make A Drawing From A Sketch In Solidworks

I chose a Pitch diameter P76 mm but obviously you can choose any value.

How to make a drawing from a sketch in solidworks. From solidworks menubar select the Tools menu. From the drop down menu select the Sketch Entities and also side drop down menu will appear. Click New Standard toolbar or File New.

Then a dialogue box will appear and contains Part Assembly and Drawing. The Make Block command is simple. Once youve started the sketch click on the Tools drop-down menu and choose Sketch Tools.

This command allows you to convert any drawing view to sketch entities or even a sketch blockYou will then have a little more flexibility in doing whatever you need to do to that viewFor those of you who are having trouble showing exactly what you want or maybe having a hard time getting a dimension to work out just the right way this might be the simple trick you need. You cannot use the view pallette but you can just import a part file composed of only sketches. This represents the pitch circle that defines the centre of the tooth in radial direction.

It just did for me when I tested it. Creating Drawings Drafting in SolidWorks To draft a drawing in SolidWorks without creating a model. Once you click on the plane you want to work on at the left side of the interface create a sketch.

Creating a New Drawing. In the Model View PropertyManager select a model from Open documents or browse to a part or assembly file. The trick is that the sketch has to be set to Hide in the part level and then in the drawing level that sketch could be set to.

Click New Standard toolbar or File New. Well begin by starting a sketch on the Front Plane and inserting an image. Now I can turn my group of various sketch entities into a single block by selecting the Make Block command from the Block toolbar.