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Adding special views to your drawings - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Adding special views to your drawings

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- [Instructor] In this video, let's go ahead and talk about adding some special views to your drawing. Now right up here I have a drawing toolbar. I've got Model view, Projected view, and all these other tools here available. So the first thing we want to look at is the Model view. Now we've already got a model on the screen here, so I can just go ahead and delete that off the screen, get rid of it, and then come over here to Model view and I can choose any of the available open documents, or you can browse to a new document and find it, right? And once you've selected one, I can then click on this little next button here and I can choose which view I'd like to bring in. Notice I have Preview turned on. This is going to be the bottom. This is going to be the top. You have the size, so you can choose any one of these views over here. You can also even create multiple views if you want, but I'm going to go ahead and choose this view right here. We've already seen that one, click on Okay, and now place that into our drawing window here. Now notice as soon as I've done that, it automatically turns on Projected view. Projected view happens to be right up here at the top of the screen as well. So if you didn't have this mode turned on, you could easily turn it on. But now it's trying to create projections of that first view that I brought in. So anywhere you go around the outside of this part, it's going to allow me to place that view. If you get to a view you like, you just click and it's going to automatically create that projection. How about a nice symmetric? How about a view over here? Sure, when you're done, hit Escape and now you can move these views around on your screen. Notice there are projections or straight projections here and then you've got an isometric view over here. Okay, the next one's going to be a Section view. So if you have a section of your model that you want to kind of look inside here, I'm going to choose the Section View tool. Come down here, choose what type of a cutting line, so a vertical line here. I'm going to go right to the center of those holes there and bring out a section view right over here, and you can see it's section CC but you could change that number or that letter to anything you want, so I'm going to make it section AA. And now right over here you can see inside, so it makes it really pretty nice. All right, next one's going to be Remove Section, so it allows you to just kind of slice the model. So I'm going to choose a section that's between this edge and this edge. Now you've got this little section you can slide through here. I'm going to snap right to the center of that hole there and then drag that down, and you can see what that's going to look like if I just sliced it in half and took a look exactly what is inside there. That's what it's going to look like, okay? Click Okay when you're done and we're good to go. Next one is going to be the Detail View, right? So Detail View is going to allow us to zoom in on a section. So if this was very complicated, you didn't really know what was going on there, I could create a little zoom-in window here and then place that somewhere else in my model. It's going to show detail D and I can change the scale. I can change the letter. Whatever you want to do over here. All that is available as far as the scale, the parent scale, the way it looks, and so on. That is your Detail View, very useful. I use that all the time. A Relative View, right? So what is a Relative View? So a Relative View is going to allow you to basically go over here to the part itself and choose my first orientation and maybe my second orientation, and then click Okay, and that's going to bring that view over into my model. So it's just going to allow you to bring in a weird view into your model over here. So that's not something that I really use all that much, but it is available to you if you wanted to bring in some type of a relative view. Right now, I'm going to delete that though and click out of that. Now what I want to do is I'm going to basically just delete everything out of here. So just get rid of everything, one shot, delete, right? Delete, all these are going to be gone and say yes. Okay, so now if you're starting a new drawing, right? And you've got a part or a model view and you just want the three standard views. So click on three standard views. I've already got that part selected, click Okay, and it just automatically creates those for us. So a pretty straightforward, quick way to make a drawing, right? So I can just bring those in real quick. I've got the three standard views and I can start adding dimensions, pretty straightforward. Okay, next one is going to be a breakout section, so that's going to remove some material in a certain area. So breakout section right over here. Notice my cursor turns into the spline tool. So I can create a little spline that kind of goes right through here and I'm going to make a breakout section right over there, and I'm going to say hey, I want to go down to a certain depth. Now you can type it in or you can actually choose something like this, and it's going to show you where it is. Click on a Preview. It's going to show you how deep it's cutting in there and you can see what's happening. Of course, you can adjust it as well, then click Okay, and now I can see that I'm kind of cutting away a section and breaking into there to see what's going on in the inside of the model. Okay, next one's going to be a Break View. Now this generally is used for something like a really long part if you have like a long tube and all the details at the end. The other thing is just like the length of the tube, and you want to make it a little larger scale so you can see what's going on. The Break View allows you to kind of select a model view and I can break the model. So of course this doesn't make that much sense here, but I can break it here and I can bring it over here, and it's going to just going to bring those two sides together because it's breaking the model at that point in time. You can choose how you want to break it and you can choose the gap and so on. Click okay, and now you've broken the model and pulled it in. Of course, it doesn't make any sense for this type of a part. But if you had a really long tube or something like that, it would definitely make sense. So let's go ahead and undo that one 'cause that just kind of looks a little weird there. All right, next one is going to be a Crop View. So if you have a view, you're just trying to show some little detail, maybe you're trying to detail out this little hole here, I can come over here to the Crop View. So before I can jump into the Crop View though, I need a little sketch that says please sketch a closed sketch. So I can do that with either a circle, or square, or something like that. So come over to Sketch. Let's go ahead and choose the center point rectangle, draw out a little sketch here, and then come up back over here to the Drawing View and say Crop View. That chops everything outside of that rectangle so you don't see it, so now you're only seeing just the Crop View. Okay, that is pretty much all that we can do in this case here. So the alternative position view is really set up more for an assembly and it allows you to have multiple positions like an open and closed position, things like that. We have the option over here for an Empty View, just adds in a view with no model in it so then later on you can add sketches and annotations, things like that to your view. Predefined View is also available over here and then of course, if you're working on a complicated thing and you want to replace the model, those are available as well. These are not as commonly used, but in general, I just wanted to touch on each of these things here to make sure you're aware of what's going on, what's available to you, and what tools you have inside of SolidWorks Drawings.

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