I have two parts that are mirror images of each other, aside from a little engraving.
I'd like to display them on my drawing side-by-side, to illustrate that they are, for all intents and purposes, symmetric parts.
However, I don't know of a way to align views from two completely separate drawings on the same page, aside from just eyeballing it.
Is there a trick I'm unaware of?
I think I may have found it: the Alignment button.
However, if by some weird coincidence either the origins or the centers are not the same, is there a way to make Alignment work?
Or maybe not. The first set of views aligned, but I just dropped in the next set (two different parts), and I can't get them to line up at all.
Sorry about how this is working out.
I have two mirror image parts in my drawing.
In one, my three views react the way I'd expect.
In the other, the two plan views are aligned, however, I have a view for that second part that is not aligned to its parent.
Maybe I'll just shut up and let somebody who knows what they're doing tell me what I'm doing wrong here...
I lied.
It seems that there are only so many alignment definitions that can be added to a view. With what I have currently, if I add an alignment to one view, I lose it in another.
A view can ONLY be aligned to one other view....you can't align a view to two views.
So the way to get it aligned to two views (maybe there's a better way, but I am not sure), is to temporarily align it one direction, then align it the other direction, then it will look aligned but not be locked in one direction.
Does that make sense?
I understand, and it's what I'm finding out, but to be honest, it makes no real sense whatsoever.
LOL.
Try this:
Right click on the drawing that you want be driven and aligned and select "Alignment" --> "Align horizontal by center" Or vertical if above or below.
EDIT: Then select the view that you want to be the driver.
See if that works.
(FYI, this screenshot is from SW 2015, not sure how 2016 handles it, but it should be similar)
That's what I've been doing, and while it's been lining up the views I chose, it's losing alignment on a view previously aligned.
And THEN,
if you don't want to accidentally move the views around and have to do it all over again, you can "Lock View Position":
And hope there's no need to adjust position at all.
and something wild here: after I hit the send button, I went back to the drawing I was working on, and the views I was referring to are now linked.
I just have no idea what I did right to make it happen.