Is there a way to get smart/reference mate for the chamfered end of a dowel pin to a blind hole. There is no issue on a thru hole since it's a edge to surface or surface to surface but can't seem to get pin bottom (chamfer side) to the 118° cone surface of the blind hole to mate. Doing this with reg...

Update. I couldn't find the API to change the layer for the Component Line Font but was able to do it from this example: https://help.solidworks.com/2016/english/api/sldworksapi/put_assembly_components_in_drawing_view_on_different_layers_example_vb.htm Here is what came up with: *created the drawing...

I was not able to change the different views of the drawing into layers, could only put all the views into the same layer. Is there a way to do this without converting the views to blocks/sketches?

Thanks, will try the drawing template and play around.

Anyone know of a way to export Solidworks model views into a single dxf file with each view into different layers? The default is exported into different sheets but I need them into layers.

Or something like a macro to convert the dxf sheets into layers after it is exported.

Help with macro to export the top, front, and right side view of a model into separate layers (top, left, right) into a single file.

The saveas option export can almost do this but puts each view into its own sheet, I want to put them into different layers. Is this possible?