How to see current view in drawing?
When I create a drawing in the View Palette panel sometimes I can see " *Current" sometimes not. Why is that?
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Re: How to see current view in drawing?
Maybe your current view is one of the defaults, like Top?
Edit to Add: Personally, I don't think I'd ever insert a Current View into a drawing. If you open the part and change the view and save it that view will be updated in your drawing. A better route is to create a custom view for your drawing and use that view.
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Re: How to see current view in drawing?
No Matt. Sorry I can't show the part file. I rotate my part file to the certain angle so that my hole cut out is visible. It is not a top view. Thank you
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Re: How to see current view in drawing?
Chika Co wrote:
No Matt. Sorry I can't show the part file. I rotate my part file to the certain angle so that my hole cut out is visible. It is not a top view. Thank you
You can use Current view (sometimes it is missing for me as well, and I don't know why either). However, I think that the best route here is "Relative view"
2015 SOLIDWORKS Help - Relative to Model View
You can even add planes to the part to use as your references for relative view.
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Re: How to see current view in drawing?
Matt, once you create the drawing with a current view setting, further changes on the model orientation wont get updated as you mentioned. at least with the setting I have. Have you checked it? Many of our situation we are using the current view to save time on view creation.
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Redecos Technologies wrote:
Matt, once you create the drawing with a current view setting, further changes on the model orientation wont get updated as you mentioned. at least with the setting I have. Have you checked it? Many of our situation we are using the current view to save time on view creation.
I completely agree.
As a test I just created a drawing from a model and inserted current view.
I went back to the model, rotated the model, saved then went back to the drawing which was still in the original "Current View" orientation.
The current view did not update.
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Re: How to see current view in drawing?
Rarely I have also faced the issue. But if you click on the refresh button usually the current view will get displayed.
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Re: How to see current view in drawing?
I use current view many times in my dwg when I want to show certain features which would be hard to see from the standard otho. or isometric views - similar as auxiliary or detail view
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Agree. I have to start using auxiliary view..When the view I want is not available I want to use snipping tool.
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Re: How to see current view in drawing?
it's exactly what's "current view" for
Rotate the 3D model so whatever view you want and show it in the 2D
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Re: How to see current view in drawing?
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it's exactly what's "current view" for
Rotate the 3D model so whatever view you want and show it in the 2D
I do the same except I save the view and use the saved view in drawing.
Now if a co-worker opens the file and rotate the model, the drawing is intact.
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Re: How to see current view in drawing?
Hi Habib,
Next time I rotate my 3D model I will save the view! Thanks
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Re: How to see current view in drawing?
I've recently had this problem. I was able to work around it by rotating the part to what you'd like to see in the "current view", then using the "new view" option in the "view orientation" drop down. Give it a name. When you bounce back to the drawing, the new view's name should show up in the view pallet (may have to refresh).
