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Using the View palette

Using the View palette - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Using the View palette

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- [Instructor] One quick and easy way to insert drawing views into your SOLIDWORKS drawing is by using the View Palette task pane on the right. So if I go over to the right side of my screen and hover over this icon that looks like a drawing, we see View Palette, it says Click to display this task pane tab. I click on that and you see here first thing a drop down. If I click on this drop down, this list contains all of the open parts that I have in the background and if I select one of them, it should automatically generate the drawing views and every angle for that particular part. Now, if I switch to another part, for example, it's going to load up those views. The orthogonal views and all of the angled views as well. If I switch that one more time to part two, we can see here again we have all of the views. Now to bring these views into the drawing, you simply just left mouse button click down on them, you'll see that…

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