From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Drawings

Relative to model view - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Drawings

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Relative to model view

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- [Instructor] When creating drawings in SOLIDWORKS, there will come a time when you want to create a view that is not one of the standard views, front, right, or top, as seen here. We have our front view, right view, and top view. Depending on how you modeled your design and your original orientation, the SOLIDWORKS part or assembly may not be able to add dimensions or highlight design features using the standard views seen here. With the relative to model view feature, you can create an orthogonal, or straight-on view by selecting a model and choosing two orthogonal faces or planes in the model. Once you've made those selections, it creates your new view, which you can then dimension accurately. For example, the view that I have in front of me, if I tried to dimension off of this edge to the text lettering here, the cut that I put in the box, the dimensions aren't going to actually be accurate, it's just going to be a projection in this view. So I want a view that's straight-on to this face right here. So I'm going to go up to insert, drawing view, and select relative to model. Once I click on that, it's going to ask us to select that first face. So I'm going to go over here and click on that face. It now switches us over to the SOLIDWORKS part dialogue, and we're going to do two orientations, the front and the right, so I want this to be my quote unquote front face. I'm going to rotate to the right and create a right face. Go ahead and click the green OK button, and now I've created a view that I can drop on my model that's straight-on, and I can also project to this view. So if I click this and project it, you can see when I go to the right, I'm straight-on to this line which represents this face right here. I can now go ahead and use my dimension features and add all of the dimensions that I need. This is also something you can use if you want to do any kind of texting or lettering, make sure that you're straight-on, not getting projected at a weird angle, and then you can make your one to one DXFs by going to file, save as, DXF.

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