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Formatting a drawing sheet

You can apply SpaceClaim formats to your drawing sheet or create your own custom formats. You can show or hide the format lines on the sheet.

You can use different sheet size formats in a single document. The Format, Orientation, and Size tools now have a Apply to All Sheets option that, when selected, applies your changes to all sheets in the document. When not selected, the change is only applied to the sheet displayed in the Design windowArea in the user interface that displays your model or assembly. Also known as Workspace.. The option is only available when the document contains more than one drawing sheet.

To change the format of a drawing sheet

1. Click Format in the Sheet Setup group on the DetailAspects of a design incorporated to communicate with others or submit the design for review. Use the tools on the Detailing tab to annotate designs, create drawing sheets, and review design changes. You can customize detailing settings to conform to standards or create your own custom style. tab.

2. Select a format from the list.

3. (Optional) Click More Formats near the bottom of the format list.

   • Select Use a specific sheet of the format if you want to use only the format from one sheet in the drawing file.

   • Use Copy BOM tables from format to specify whether or not you want to include the BOM tables.

   • Use Copy views from format to specify whether or not you want to include views

   • Navigate to the SCDOC fileFile format for SpaceClaim files (.scdoc). Files comply with the Microsoft Open Packaging Convention, which is also used by Microsoft Office 2007. These files are actually zip archives with a special structure, the contents of which are primarily XML data. containing the format and click Open.

4. (Optional) Deselect Apply to All Sheets to apply the format to only the current drawing sheet.

To remove the formatting from the drawing sheet

Select Remove Current Format from Format tool drop-down.

Create a custom drawing sheet format

1. Create a new drawing sheet.

2. Set the orientation, size, and scale of the drawing sheet.

3. Draw on the drawing sheet using the Sketching and Annotation tools.

   Tip If you insert fields based on document properties into annotations on the drawing sheet, you can create a drawing sheet format that automatically updates when it is applied to a drawing sheet in a design.

4. Save the drawing sheet into a support directory.

   The drawing sheet appears as a format within the Format tool's drop-down list.

To create a custom drawing sheet by inserting an AutoCAD file

1. Create a new drawing sheet.

2. Click File in the Insert group on the Design2D or 3D model that contains at least one top-level component. tab.

3. Select AutoCADSoftware application for 2D and 3D design and drafting by Autodesk, Inc. AutoCAD's native file format is DWGAutoCAD native drawing format. You can open and insert drawings, parts, and assemblies. Drawings can be inserted as layouts. You can export parts, assemblies, drawing sheets, and 3D markup slides., its interchange file format is DXFDrawing Interchange Format or Drawing Exchange Format. CAD data file format developed by Autodesk for enabling data interoperability between AutoCAD and other programs. You can open and insert drawings, parts, and assemblies.Drawings can be inserted as layouts. You can export parts, assemblies, drawing sheets, and 3D markup slides., and its format for publishing CAD data is DWF. files for the Files of Type.

4. Select the Import onto drawing sheet option.

5. Browse to locate the AutoCAD file, then click Open.