![]() Layerįinally, you can even set a layer upon which your border should be placed within the Layer groupbox. Under Zone labels, you will find several options and settings that allow you to control the visibility, placement and font of the letters and numbers which label your zone columns and rows. If you do not want center zone divider to extend into the drafting area of your drawing, you can input 0 (zero) into the second field. Use Center zone divider settings to control the length of the center zone divider in both directions from the border. There are also settings under Center zone divider that allow you to control the center zone divider’s length in both directions from the border. In Zone Formatting groupbox when Show zone dividers is checked, you can control the line font, line thickness, length for the dividers. With this option off, the lines that represent the divisions between zones do not appear on the border. You have the option to show or hide zone dividers with the Show zone dividers option. Zone Formatting groupbox provides several highly specific settings to control the display of zones within the border. This is only useful if you have unusual distribution of sheet zones that do not take the border into account, with the same Right, Left, Top and Bottom settings as Margins. Independent Border groupbox is a less commonly used option that allows you to place your borders separately from margins. ![]() Also, there is an option to allows you to include double-line border called Double-line border. You can set the border’s line font and thickness. Margin groupbox allows you to establish where your border appears on the sheet in terms of distance from the sheet extents. Under Regions, you can set zones to fit within the sheet’s margins ( Margins) or the sheet’s extents ( Sheet). The 50mm from center option under Distribution allows you to use a common size and placement regardless to sheet size.Įvenly sized option allows you to automatically divide the sheet up into evenly sized zones, including a custom number of rows and columns. Zone Size groupbox allows you to establish your zone distribution and region. On page two of the Automatic Border PropertyManager, you have many options to edit your border. If you have a newer Sheet Format, just skip this first page by selecting Next. The first page of the PropertyManager is for legacy (pre-SOLIDWORKS 2016) Sheet Formats. (If you have an older Sheet Format or you are trying to incorporate your old Sheet Format from another CAD application, see SOLIDWORKS Help.) In the Automatic Border PropertyManager, select Next to edit your existing border. On a newer template created in SOLIDWORKS 2016 or later, your border will highlight as orange. To find the Automatic Border tool: Click on the Sheet Format tab Choose Edit Sheet Format to switch to Sheet Format mode. ![]() This tab includes the tools Edit Sheet Format, Title Block Fields and Automatic Border. To support ease of editing your Sheet Formats, a tab is available on the CommandManager called Sheet Format. The tool has many functions to provide to you the ability to make and edit your borders to your exact needs. The Automatic Border tool allows you to control all elements of your drawing border and associate those with drawing zones which are intrinsic to the drawing sheet. You also do not need to edit many sketch objects to update your borders. You don’t need to sketch your drawing borders from scratch. SOLIDWORKS has the amazing Automatic Border tool for Sheet Formats.
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