SolidWorks Design Library Features and DXF Export: Why Your Settings Keep Resetting

If you’ve spent any time in SolidWorks sheet metal forums, you’ve seen the same conversation play out: someone asks how everyone handles tabs and slots, and the replies split into three camps — Design Library features, manual boss extrudes, and the built-in Tab and Slot feature. Each approach works, but they all share one frustrating problem when it comes time to export DXFs. You forget a setting, and your fabricator gets bad files. ...

17 March 2026 · 5 min · CadShift