Creating Additional Template Tabs

You can create additional tabs to organize custom templates that you create. The tabs appear on the Advanced page of the New SOLIDWORKS Document dialog box.

When you open a new SOLIDWORKS document, you select a template for that document in the New SOLIDWORKS Document dialog box. System templates are available, but you can add tabs for your own templates. Each tab corresponds to a Windows folder.

With custom tabs, you can manage the placement, access, and organization of your templates:

  • Create folders on any drive, including hard drives, floppy drives, or network drives.
  • Share the contents of network folders, or restrict access to folders.
  • Arrange folder contents to reflect your work environment.

To create a new tab on the Advanced page of the New SOLIDWORKS Document dialog box:

  1. In File Explorer, create a new folder and give it the name you want for the tab.
  2. Move one or more document templates into the new folder.
    To appear as a tab, a folder must contain at least one template.
  3. In the SOLIDWORKS software, click Options or Tools > Options.
  4. On the System Options tab, select File Locations.
  5. In Show folders for, select Document Templates.
  6. Click Add, browse to the folder you created in step 1, and click Select Folder.
    The new folder is listed under Folders. You can change the order of the tabs by clicking Move Up and Move Down.
  7. Click OK, and then click Yes to confirm the change.
    A tab with the name of the folder appears on the Advanced page of the New SOLIDWORKS Document dialog box.