![]() I showed you how in the blog post in the section above this one. SOLIDWORKS creates a new part/assembly/drawing template when it can’t find one. How to stop SOLIDWORKS from creating new document templates These methods all concern Sheet Formats, which SOLIDWORKS apparently called templates decades ago. There are some confusing methods in the SOLIDWORKS API though, called EditTemplate(), ReloadTemplate() and GetTemplateName(). Can I detect which template was used to create a file? Document Templates is at the top of the list. But no, the template folders for other SW versions are still empty. I just checked to see if templates for each version actually exist at all. This is not ideal, because the official advice is to create new templates every time you switch to a new SOLIDWORKS version. I have SW 2017, 20 installed and they all use the 2017 templates. ![]() When you install a newer version, SOLIDWORKS reuses templates from this version. The default folder is C:\ProgramData\SOLIDWORKS\SOLIDWORKS 20xx\templates This post is about three types of SOLIDWORKS templates: How to disable/enable choosing a template for each new file.Why does SOLIDWORKS show an empty template tab?.Why are templates from different folders shown in the same tab?.I added a directory with templates, but they don’t show up.How to stop SOLIDWORKS from creating new templates.Can I detect which template was used to create a file?.I ran into some strange behavior when trying to add document templates.
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