Chapter 29: Working with Tables and Drawings

SolidWorks enables you to work with tables that are highly specialized for particular uses and with general tables that are available for any type of tabulated data. The most frequently used types are BOMs, hole tables, and revision tables. Design tables that drive part and assembly configurations can also be placed on a 2D drawing, but in these cases, some formatting is usually necessary to make these tables presentable and the information on it easy to read.

• Master It Go through all of your drawing templates with formats, and all of your separate formats, and make sure that you have anchors for all of the table types your company creates.
• Solution The way to test this is to make new drawings with each template and place tables on them. Doing work ahead of time makes it so much more rewarding when the automatic setup pays a benefit.
• Master It Take an existing assembly drawing, add a column to it, add a property, and fill...