
To do this go to ‘File > Properties’ and click on the ‘Custom’ tab. You need to have the property ‘Weight’ set up at the part level.

Creating a new drawing with the dummy part.Setting up the ‘Weight’ property field at part level.In this example, we will look at adding a property of ‘Weight’ from the part shown in the drawing. SOLIDWORKS allows to you to link properties into the drawing border so all of these fields will automatically populate. This information already exists within your part file so why not have SOLIDWORKS fill it in for you? Manually entering values for model properties, such as Weight, is not only time consuming but prone to human error.

Automation of your SOLIDWORKS drawings is one of the biggest time savers in the software.
