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Re: Using Drawing Views as Layers for a Cleaner Drawing

Mark — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:44:06 -0000

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

Re: Using Drawing Views as Layers for a Cleaner Drawing

Mark — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:36:57 -0000

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.

Re: Using Drawing Views as Layers for a Cleaner Drawing

Josh — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:21:36 -0000

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!

Re: Using Drawing Views as Layers for a Cleaner Drawing

brianmcelyea — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:58:40 -0000

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.

Re: Using Drawing Views as Layers for a Cleaner Drawing

Josh — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:45:08 -0000

Thanks Ray! glad you liked it.

Re: Using Drawing Views as Layers for a Cleaner Drawing

Ray Brazis — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:30:27 -0000

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