Section View PropertyManager (Drawings).You can set these properties before, during, or after creating the section view.
You can make changes to a Section View or Aligned Section View in a drawing by editing the section line properties. In part drawings, you can use Alternate Position View to overlay two configurations of a part in a single view. In assembly drawings, you can use Alternate Position Views to indicate the range of motion of an assembly component by showing it in different positions. The uncropped portion is enclosed using a sketch, usually a spline or other closed contour. This detail may be of an orthographic view, a non-planar (isometric) view, a section view, a crop view, an exploded assembly view, or another detail view.Ī crop view focuses on a portion of a drawing view by hiding all but a defined area. You create a detail view in a drawing to show a portion of a view, usually at an enlarged scale. Projected Views (including the side and top views of Standard 3 Views) and Auxiliary Views have jumps only from the child to the parent. He is a regular contributor to the CATI Tech Notes blog.Some types of views are linked to their parent views: Detail, Section, Auxiliary, and Projected Views, for example. Josh Altergott is Support Manager at Computer Aided Technology, a SolidWorks Value Added Reseller with locations in Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas, Indiana, Wisconsin and Illinois. for letting my use his models for this example. I hope this helps everyone as they create different drawings.Īlso a special thanks to Ken Zirbel from Fox Valley Tool & Die Inc.
The downfall to this method is when inserting dimensions it brings in the dimensions for the entire model and not just the solid body. The one item to consider is if your body is not oriented in a standard drawing view you will need to create a new named view to use in the drawing. The last option we have is Select Bodies which allows us to choose which body we want to create a drawing view of. The downside to this is you have to be aware of changes that you make to the file and managing all of the features. The benefit to this is that you now have a configuration you can reference on the drawing or for an assembly later and you have dimensions that you can easily show on your drawing. One warning is you have to make sure that when doing this you check all Parent/Child Relations to make sure when you suppress one feature it does not take out others you do not want suppressed. You can always create a configuration(s) to represent the different bodies and their features.įor our example all we needed to do was create a new configuration called Steel Rule and suppress all of the features that were not related to our “target body”. Overall it is up to you which of these options will work best for your application. This works much like Option 1 but does give you a few more items that you can control such as the file name, creating an assembly of all the different solid bodies, and part template choice. The items I see that can be a downfall to this method is that you now have an additional part that you need to maintain as well as a part the has no dimensions when you go to create a drawing of the part.
The software updates the existing derived parts, preserving parent-child relations. If you change the geometry of the original part, the new parts also change. Each new part contains a single feature named Stock- – n ->. This option creates a new derived part that contains a reference back to the parent part. The answer to this is like many items in SolidWorks is open ended and has many different solutions and I am going to run you thru a few of these options. When you have a multi-body part in SolidWorks the question that comes into play at some point is how do I make a drawing for each of the different bodies “parts”.