Is there any way to create model views with preset angles (e.g., 100-130-130)? Goal - compilation of a set of homogeneous pictures for product instructions.
Is there any way to create model views with preset angles (e.g., 100-130-130)? Goal - compilation of a set of homogeneous pictures for product instructions.
You can position the model at the desired orientation, hit your Space bar, create a custom drawing view, and repeat as needed. You can then reference those drawing views in Drawings. Does that answer your question?
Glenn, your answer (as well as other answers below) do not address my problem, which is in either SETTING or GETTING the model view angles. The information provided in the answers is well known and can be found in the SW help. I'm trying to find an effective solution to a problem that is not common and may have answers buried deep in the SW settings or commands. For a digital application SW is and costing $ks I see it completely childish setting something by sight. In order to clarify further what I'm looking for, I would split the problem into two separate parts:
1. Setting model view angles digitally and precisely (not hitting fifty times arrow keys).
2. If the view is set by sight, get the angle values in a digital form.
Use sketches to define the locations of planes. Then use the planes to determine the views.
Specifically this:
Dan, you can invent dozens of "hat-on-a-hat" methods to work around something, that's what I'm trying to avoid and that's what (or absence of what) in SW surprises me. You can set dimensions with 10-8 precision but can't set angles for a model view. If there is no straightforward answer I would consider this just another SW fundamental drawback, choose the least troublesome way around, and forget about it, every thing in this world has its own price worth your time wasting.
Igor Smirnov wrote:
Dan, you can invent dozens of "hat-on-a-hat" methods to work around something, that's what I'm trying to avoid and that's what (or absence of what) in SW surprises me. You can set dimensions with 10-8 precision but can't set angles for a model view. If there is no straightforward answer I would consider this just another SW fundamental drawback, choose the least troublesome way around, and forget about it, every thing in this world has its own price worth your time wasting.
Judging from this response, and the one to my effort to help, you expect Solidworks and those of us trying to help to be able to read your mind. Unfortunately I left my mind-reading hat at the office so I can't get to it while working from home.
Igor Smirnov wrote:
Dan, you can invent dozens of "hat-on-a-hat" methods to work around something, that's what I'm trying to avoid and that's what (or absence of what) in SW surprises me. You can set dimensions with 10-8 precision but can't set angles for a model view. If there is no straightforward answer I would consider this just another SW fundamental drawback, choose the least troublesome way around, and forget about it, every thing in this world has its own price worth your time wasting.
Make instructions in SW is, like you wrote, time wasting.
SW is for design, for make instructions this you have specialist programs (eg Composer), but we give you simply solutions for solve your problem. I did in SW much instructions and never fill that wasting time for adjust view. This is few (not like you wrote - fifty) times use arrows. If you make templates, maybe you don't must use it. Much, much more time you wasting for hide unnecessary tangent edges. I know it from my experience. Price SW doesn't matter. There are much more expensive programs and they won't fulfill your wish either. The only one I associate is ACad in which you have to click more by entering LUV angles than arrows in SW.
By the way, when someone wishes that he don't have in the SW TV preview window?
Igor Smirnov wrote:
Dan, you can invent dozens of "hat-on-a-hat" methods to work around something, that's what I'm trying to avoid and that's what (or absence of what) in SW surprises me. You can set dimensions with 10-8 precision but can't set angles for a model view. If there is no straightforward answer I would consider this just another SW fundamental drawback, choose the least troublesome way around, and forget about it, every thing in this world has its own price worth your time wasting.
Honestly, creating this view took about 3 minutes. Probably less. And it was very easy to do.
IN fact, I would go so far as to say that this is the intended function. I once got to witness a Rolls Royce in an auto show. It had a hood that automatically opened and closed for you when you pushed a button.
My Saturn, however, doesn't have this feature. Should I say that manually opening the hood on my Saturn is a time waster? No. It was specifically designed to be opened by hand.
Or another analogy: I have a hydraulic wood splitter and a splitting maul. I can split the wood with either tool. The hydraulic wood splitter is easier....However, when I don't have access to the hydraulic wood splitter and only have the splitting maul, I can get the job done with the splitting maul. And in the end, even do it faster than the hydraulic one.
I would say that Solidworks has give you plenty of tools to get the job done.
Use this option:
Type necessary value (eg 10 deg.). Start from standard view (eg. Front) and use arrow key for adjust view. After, as wrote Glenn Schroeder, save view for use in future.
Edit:
Of course you can add views and save as part or assembly template.
There are a few different ways to do this.
Have you looked in using macros?
Yes, I think this would be the most efficient way to handle the problem, usually, for such operations I use a resident shortcut-key macro program recording, saving, and playing any sequence of keyboard entries. Since I need view angles with high precision (around 0.1 degree), for my current image set I have to hit "down" arrow 150, "right" arrow 200, and "Alt-right" arrow 7 times. Having no option to enter all the angles as values at once I'll have to record a macro and save it as a shortcut key. Setting custom views makes no sense since I can't transfer them to other machines and also they can't be used for reference since their angle values will be unknown..
Igor Smirnov wrote:
Having no option to enter all the angles as values at once I'll have to record a macro and save it as a shortcut key. Setting custom views makes no sense since I can't transfer them to other machines and also they can't be used for reference since their angle values will be unknown..
You can put the requires values in excel and drive the macro from there and and can let the macro save the image for you.
The custom views can be shared within models and machines as well.
Another option would be to use animation to rotate the model at different angles and export the images .
1. You're right, but, actually, the way a macro is made and run is not so important in our case. If we get back to the original question it's about some direct way to set or read view angle values in SW. Since, as it follows from the discussion, there is no one, the rest are dozens and, maybe, hundreds of particular work-around solutions.
2. Even if they can be transferred, they are useless as source of reference data.
3. Again, one more work-around solution.
As a resume, I would say that the method involving macro is the most efficient in terms of available means, required time, and efforts.
Have you looked in using macros?
Part View Rotate Macro
Create a rotate 90° macro function in drawing view