Drawings Mode

What comes out

• Standard views chosen from the geometry, plus section views where the geometry needs one. Detail and auxiliary views are not generated yet.
• Dimensions imported from the ones marked for drawing in the model, placed into lanes rather than stacked. Overall envelope dimensions are added outright.
• Hole callouts, centre marks and centrelines.
• For assemblies, the BOM built from the assembly structure, ballooned to match its item numbers.
• Your title block, populated from the model’s custom properties, on a sheet size and scale chosen from the geometry.
• A saved .SLDDRW next to the model.

Drawings Mode does not export PDF. Once the drawing exists, exporting it to PDF, DXF or DWG is a separate operation in Agent Mode.

If nothing in the part is marked for drawing, the sheet comes back with the views and the title block but almost no dimensions. Mark dimensions once in the part and every later drawing of it comes out complete.

Running it across an assembly

Point it at a top-level assembly and ask for drawings of every part. It walks the structure and produces one sheet per part plus the assembly drawing.

Run it on a small assembly first so you can check the conventions before a large batch.

Configure standards first

Set up standards before running a batch. Without them, generation falls back to the host SOLIDWORKS default template.