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Relative to Model views

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Relative to Model views

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- [Instructor] In this example, we're going to be talking about relative model views. And what a relative model view is, is the standard view you might see, like a front view or a side view, if those don't line up exactly the way you're expecting them to, you have the ability to change those. Let's go ahead and take a look at an example. Here's my part, let's go ahead and create a drawing, so Make Drawing from Part. I'm going to go ahead and choose my default template here, and here it is. Now it's going to be, bring it in as my front view, and, hey, that doesn't look like a front view to me, it just looks more like an isometric view, but that happens to be the view I have. Now, if I go over here and try to click on a projected view, you can see all my views are showing up and they just don't look right, 'cause that front view is just not really the front view of this part. And, more than likely, on the exam, that's how SOLIDWORKS is going to provide these files to you, so that you…

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