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Drawing Tools: View Layout Toolbar at A Glance

The document provides an overview of the various drawing tools available in SolidWorks including tools for creating views, adding dimensions and annotations, inserting tables and blocks, and specifying tolerances and other details. It briefly describes each tool's function such as creating standard, projected, and section views or adding smart dimensions, balloons, surface finishes, and revision tables. The annotation tools allow efficient documentation of part and assembly drawings in SolidWorks.

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Drawing Tools: View Layout Toolbar at A Glance

The document provides an overview of the various drawing tools available in SolidWorks including tools for creating views, adding dimensions and annotations, inserting tables and blocks, and specifying tolerances and other details. It briefly describes each tool's function such as creating standard, projected, and section views or adding smart dimensions, balloons, surface finishes, and revision tables. The annotation tools allow efficient documentation of part and assembly drawings in SolidWorks.

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Shailesh Patel
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Drawing Tools

View Layout Toolbar At A Glance

View Layout Tools


Standard 3 View:
Inserts and creates three default orthographic views that relate to one
another. One view will act as a parent view to the other two. When the
parent view moves the other two move and when the parent scale is
changed the other two views scale will change with it.
Model View:
Insert orthographic views into a drawing manually by selecting one, or
multiple views. The user can specify if they want standard views, trimetric,
diametric, or a current view of the model (only if the model is open). See
model view property manager for more information.

Projected View:
Views created from orthogonal views and projected onto non defaulted
plane. A dotted line will indicate where the view is being projected from.

Auxiliary View:
A view which is unfolded normal to a reference edge from an existing
orthographic view or projection.

Section View:
Create a view of a rotated section drawing view containing the details of an
imaginary cut through a part. SolidWorks allows the user to change the
hatch style, the display style, and flip the cut diraction. Also found under this
tool is aligned section view which performs similarly to section view except
that it has two cut lines rater than one.
Detail View:
Create an enlarged portion of a view to show more complex parts and limit
diminsion clutter. Detail views can be applied to an orthographic, section,
cropped, exploded assembly, or another detail view.
Broken-out Section:
A closed profile, typically a spline, around a desired view at a specified depth
that cuts away a part of the current view to expose inner details of the part.
This does not create a separate view but remains apart of the selected view.
Break:
Interrupt a view in a drawing by cutting away a portion of an existing view.
Allows the user to utilize a larger scale when working with a larger
component. The referenc e and model dimensions on a broken view reflect
actual component values.
Crop View:
The user specifies a closed profile initially (either draws a spline, circle
square, ect.) then selects crop view and the only portion of the view that will
remain is the portion enclosed in the closed profile. To remove a crop view
right click on the view and then select crop view and select remove crop.
Alternate Position View:
Superimpose one drawing view directly ontop of another. The addition on
the other view is displayed with phanton lines. Typically used to show the
range of motion within an assembly.

Annotation Toolbar At A Glance

Annotation Tools

Spell Checker:
Cycles through all annotations and checks for spelling mistakes.

Note:
A free floating or fixed comment attatched to a veiw, drawing sheet, or
drawing package. A note can contain simple text, sybols, parametric text,
and hyperlinks.
Model Items:
Insert dimensions, annotations, and reference geometry from a part or
assembly document into a drawing. In the property manager choose
whether to add annotations to the entire model, a selected feature, a
selected component, or only an assembly.
Smart Dimension:
Add key dimensions to a drawing document by specifying the type of
dimension to add. The user can specify the type of dimension needed by
changing the dimensioning tool. Smart dimension determines the type of
dimension needed based on the user’s selection. However, others, such as
horizontal, vertical, baseline, and chamfer can be selected when the user
desires to choose the type of dimension and then make selections on the
part or assembly. Often, choosing a type before selecting can be more
accurate on a difficult part drawing.

Baseline dimensioning references the dimension from a single edge or


vertex. Ordinate dimensioning reference a chosen zero point (edge, point,
vertices, or arc) and the selected starting point is denoted with a zero. A
chamfer dimension accurately dimensions a chamfer.

Note: Most drawings employ baseline dimensioning since it makes


fabrication easier.
Balloo/AutoBalloon:
The Balloon tool labels or calls out components within an assembly by
manually adding a numbered balloon. AutoBalloon perfoms the exact way
that the balloon tool does except that it will label all components in the
sheet automatically rather than manually. The user does not need to add a
bill of materials to insert balloons. The balloons are numbered in accordance
to the default value SolidWorks assigns. If a bill of materials exists
SolidWorks uses those values.

Revision Symbol:
Inserts a revision table into the drawing document to track document
revisions and includes the revision symbols.

Surface Finish:
Allows the user to specify the surface texture of a components face.

Weld Symbol:
Specify the weld parameters on a welded structure.

Hole Callout:
This tool uses the information from hole wizard to dimension a hole in a
drawing model. If the hole is changed in the part or assembly document, the
drawing will update automatically. The number of instances will be included
if the pattern was created using the hole wizard feature.
Tables:
Note: all tables functions similarly to an excel spreadsheet.

General Table: Create a unique table to suit the users specific needs or
purpose.

Hole table: creates a table that measures the positions of holes from a
selected origin datum. SolidWorks labels each hole with a label and
corresponds that with a row in the table.

Bill of Materials: creates a table that identifies components in an assembly.


The table can be anchored moved, and edited. Typical headers in a BOM are
item number (identified by balllons), part number (identified by user),
description, and quantity. Other columns can be added to include such
information as price, manufacturer, or stock size. To add or edit the table
left click on the table, then right click on a column or row. All these
properties can be linked in a part document so that the user does not need
to manually type out this information. If linked the information will update
in the drawing document if the part properties is editted and saved.

Revision Table: creates a table to aid in tracking document revisions and adds
revision symbols. Helpful in large project management.

Geometric Tolerance:
Place geometric tolerance symbols with or without leaders in a drawing to
specify machining standards for the part.

Datum Feature:
Insert an exact reference point, line or surface to specify where
measurements are taken in the drawing and or in machining.

Datum Target:
Insert a specific refernce point, line, or surface to establish a datumn.

Area Hatch/Fill:
Apply a crosshatch or solid fill to a face on a component, a closed profile
sketch, or a region bounded by model edges.

Blocks:
Make, save, edit, and insert a user defined annotation into a drawing. The
user can add blocks such as text, sketch entities, balloons, imported entities,
and an area hatch, and then store them in a specified file folder. Extremely
helpful when adding duplicate entities in several sheets or drawing views.
Center Mark:
Place a centermark on circles or arcs on views within a drawing document.
This tool can be helpful when dimensioning a part.

Centerline:
Insert manually or automatically centerlines, where appropriate, in drawing
views.

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