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Using Drawing Views as Layers for a Cleaner Drawing

Started by Josh M · 10 months ago

I want my drawings to be as clear as possible, but I also want the least amount of views and pages to get the information across. This can be difficult when there are parts weaving in and around each other. So, imagine if you could combine two views together to reduce a bunch of extra [. ... Continue reading »

6 comments

  • Ray Brazis

    2 years ago

    Josh, I enjoyed looking and learning this really cool trick!
    Keep up the great work.
    Ray
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  • Josh

    2 years ago

    Thanks Ray! glad you liked it.
    reply
  • Brian

    2 years ago

    Very nice tip, Josh!

    We could have used this several weeks ago. One of our designers was wanting to do something similar, but couldn't create an Alternate Position view, since it was a part file.
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  • Josh

    2 years ago

    Hey Brian, I had the same thought of trying an alternate position view, but it was not working the way I needed it to. I use layers in Photoshop and so I tried it out in SolidWorks and have gotten some really cool results! smaller drawings too!
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  • Mark

    8 months ago

    Thanks for the great tip....it sounds great anyway. I've tried it about a dozen different ways, but I always get stopped on your step3 aligning the views: The first 'align horizontal by origin' works, but then when I try to assign 'align vertical by origin' to the second view, I consistently get the error message "The view cannot be aligned with the selected view because the two are already aligned".

    (FYI: I'm using SW2008)

    Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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  • Mark

    8 months ago

    Nevermind! I didn't follow your instructions exactly. I had tried "cross aligning' the views, instead of applying both alignment conditions to the same view. It works now, thanks a lot!!
    -Mark
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