Creating a NEW Draw View

Draw | 3D to 2D Drawing | New Draw View

A draw view contains objects captured in a rectangular-shaped frame which remain associated to the sketch objects or model in the editor. Placing objects in a draw view ‘frame’ allows different layers, scale factors and shade options to be used when preparing the drawing sheet for printing or saving as a print document.

Updates and modifications done to the objects in the editor are simultaneously updated in the draw view. It is considered good practice to have separate layers for drawing objects in the editor and draw view frames.

Once a Draw View has been created and placed in the editor, modifications can be made to the design using either the editor or the Draw View, but preference should be given to performing changes to the objects contained in the editor.

In the example below, the drawing objects appear on the left; the Draw View frame appears on the right. By selecting the horizontal line shown by the cursor in the left objects, the corresponding objects are selected in the Draw View.

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Worked Example

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In this example, the editor contains a 2D sketch and a 3D model, which will be produced as ‘Views’ in the drawing sheet layout. A title block will be inserted into the editor into which the views will be inserted, maintaining associativity with the sketch and model below.

Contents of drawing editor

Layer Control

The Concept ExplorerWindow > Concept Explorer > Layers facility allows the user to maintain control over which layers are viewed, hidden or isolated. This is an important practice and is encouraged throughout all drawings and designs.

The objects in the editor have been organized into layers, shown below. The Sketch and sub-layer Dimension will contain all 2D sketch objects and dimensions and the Model layer contains all solid objects. The Layout layer will contain the views and the title block into which the views will be inserted.

The Layer Layout is activated as the current layer.

‘Layout’ layer activated as current

New Draw View

Draw | 3D to 2D Drawing | New Draw View

To do this, right click in the editor and set the view to Top. Right click and select Zoom All then zoom up into the area shown below.

Select New Draw View shown above, then create a rectangular selection around the objects shown below.

Creating a New Draw View

This new view can be selected and duplicated to the right by selecting inside the view frame, shown by point 1 below, then holding down the CTRL key and copying the frame from point 2 below.

Copy the frame to point 3 below.

Copying a new draw view

Use the side handles on the frame so that the objects in the right frame are fully contained within the frame and similar to the original draw frame.

Drawing objects in editor, above left; Draw View containing sketch objects, above right.

Side handles shown by arrow used to adjust frame.