![]() ![]() Click on that one and I'm going to choose the Drawing here, click on OK, and it should fire up a brand new drawing. My favorite generally is come over here and say Make Drawing from Part. Of course, we have other ways we can do that as well. To do that go up here to File, New, or just come over here and click on the part itself, click on it and say Open Drawing if you already have a drawing. So we need to actually make a drawing of this part. Now the next process is a little bit more complicated. We can send that file now to whoever's going to process this part via laser or water jet or whatever type of machine they have. But if everything looks good click on Save and now we've saved that file to our file system, wherever we happened to place that, and we're ready to go. ![]() So you can come back and edit that file if you want to. ![]() But prior to that if you did have something there that you didn't want you can always come over here to Remove Entities. And that's pretty much exactly what we need, so click on Save. I can output an alignment option if I'd like to or just go ahead and click on OK and it should give you a representation of what it's actually going to save out. Over here it's saying I'd like to export that face. But generally either one will probably work. The file size might be a little bit different between the two, but generally DXF is probably a better choice, 'cause it's more universal. I can also come down here and choose a DWG file. Here is where I want to save it out to and notice it gives me the option for a DXF file. Now my window popped up over here, let me just go ahead and just drag that back over to the screen so you can see it. So right-click on that face, come over here to Export DXF/DWG and you should get a window that pops up. First things first, if you have a part that looks like this, very simple, simple geometry, and if I click on the top surface if that surface there is exactly what you want to be cut you're in luck, 'cause we can save that file out directly from SOLIDWORKS without actually even going to a drawing. And we have to also make sure we're saving out the files correctly, so that those machines can import them in and you can get the right parts back. We want to make sure everything's scaled correctly and that's scaled 1:1. We don't want things coming back the wrong size or half size or double size. Want to see how SolidWorks can help you win new business and get to market faster? Request a SolidWorks demo today.- Anytime you're working with sheet metal parts or plate or anything you're going to laser cut, water jet, plasma cut, or any other flat cutting process, even die-cutting, more than likely you're probably going to need either a DWG or a DXF file scaled 1:1. Want to try out SolidWorks? You can request a free SolidWorks trial on our website. He is a regular contributor to the TMS CAD Centre blog. However by making the BOM sheet active in the second window, it also activates, (but doesn’t show) in the other window.ĭuncan Crofts is an Applications Engineer & CSWE at TMS CAD Centre, a SolidWorks Value Added Reseller in Scotland. There are two windows of the same file open, each are showing different sheets. This means that if you make a change on one sheet, it will automatically translate that change in the other window.Ī good example of this is shown in the image above. Once you can see both of the windows, it is simply a case of selecting one of them and activating the alternate sheet.Īs a small note, this will function in the same as having other linked files open. You can then use Window – Tile Horizontally/Vertically to see both of the windows. ![]() Go to Window – New Window – this will basically open a duplicate window It is possible by following the following process.įirstly open the document that has more than one sheet that you would like to view. I’ve had a couple of customers asking me recently about the possibility of showing different sheets from the same drawings file at the same time on screen. ![]()
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