How can I solve following problem: I make lot of design work to ships and large machines. There is a common agreement that X-axis points towards the bow of ship or output end of mchinem, following flow of material (paper, steel, ore), therefore defining Front direction and Front plane different to SolidWorks which uses Z-axis for this purpose. Also in these systems Z-azis is agreed to point upwards to the sky, so XY-plane is parallel to sea suface or floor. X-axis is always growing to right in drawings if possible, so ship sails from left to right and raw material comes from left end of view, flowing rightwards.Even global origin is defined.
Trying to redefine the standard views according to this always fails in following ways:
-"Front" and "Back" can be redefined to be as wanted, default screen orientation is correct (Z-axis upwards).
-"Top" and "Bottom" are views from correct direction, however X-axis is pointing downwards on screen and the screen view always has to be rotated 90 degreen CW or CCW. As a result, sketching anything has "horizontal" and "vertical" relations mixed the opposit way to expected.
-"Right" becomes left (port side) and "Left" becomes rigth (starboard side). This can not be fixed at all, also screen horizontal and vertical are incorrect.
Problem is the fixed default global planes naming and orientation for what I have not found solutions in SW. Other programs I am using, let me also redefine which axis runs "up" and that automatically redefines floor plane in in global system, and solves the problem there.
Hopefully there is a way round because if I use the correct orientation, I spend a lot of time reorienting myself with 90 degrees misorientated views and redefining horizontal and vertical relations again and again in sketches. It is impossible to use SolidWorks default coordinates with the team because I need always to make lots of unnecessary mates which often explodes STEPs and other exports made on other systems. Ship hydrostatic analysis always lives in the mentioned coordinate base, so I have to make my work accordingly. To be straight, this is a major shortage which makes me unproductive with SolidWorks to these projects. Please help!
Timo