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Chapter 1: Introducing SolidWorks
FIGURE 1.9
The Novice and Advanced interfaces for the New SolidWorks Document dialog box
Depending on your needs, it might be reasonable to have templates for metric and inch part and
assembly, templates for steel and aluminum, and templates for sheet metal parts and for weldments,
if you design these types of parts. If your firm has different customers with different requirements,
you might consider using separate templates for each customer. Over time, you will discover the
types of templates you need, because you will find yourself making the same changes repeatedly.
You should also note that in SolidWorks 2011 templates can also control document scenes. A system
option controls whether the document scene or a system background color option is the default. The
default setting for this gives the document scene precedence over the system background color set-
tings. See Chapter 5 for more details on scenes and background colors.
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