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Adding model views to a drawing

Adding model views to a drawing - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Adding model views to a drawing

- To get started making a drawing for this part, I want to click on File, and Make Drawing from Part. Now it's going to give me the option of what template that I want to choose, and I want to choose this template that I just created call C size under the Templates folder in the exercise files. Click on Okay, and there's my brand-new document. Now over here ont he right hand side is a bunch of different views that I can drag and drop into my drawing. I'm going to choose the top view here, click and drag and now the automatic projection mode is turned on. So if I move my cursor over to the right, I get the right projection. If I start moving that around in a circle, you can see the projection's automatically going to change as I move my cursor around the part. So over here on the right, let's go ahead and click once. And then up here, directly above the part now let's go ahead and click, and then right up here at a 45-degree angle, click there again. Now this is going to stay active…

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