Engineering drawings are what engineers and designers use to communicate their designs to other parties, such as manufacturers. SOLIDWORKS' drawing tools provide us with comprehensive tools that we can use to generate those drawings. In this chapter, we learned how to input the most basic drawing views, that is, orthographic and isometric views. Then, we learned how to adjust the drawing scale and display style for a particular view. After that, we learned how to add dimensions and different annotations such as centerlines and hole callouts. Finally, we learned how to adjust the information block and export the drawing as an image or PDF file.

The skills we learned about in this chapter allow us to communicate our designs to external entities. Drawings present the link between us as SOLIDWORKS users and others who don't have access to or expertise in the software...