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Adding named views

Adding named views - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Adding named views

When making renderings, the angle of the model and the zoom level are very important. Many times, the model will go through several revisions of rendering to figure out the finishes, lighting and look of the final image. By saving a named view, you can get back to the saved orientation and run renderings with different adjustments. To get started, let's rotate the model to a nice angle to get a new rendering. In this case here, I want to rotate the model, kind of this view here, looking down at the top of it. And I want to establish what's called a named view. So I can do that by clicking under the view palette right here, and coming to this first one here which is called new view. Click on that, and I can name it R1 for rendering one. Click okay. And now it's saved out. So now if I open this up, notice I've got this view down here saved. And I can always jump back to it. So I can do a spin the model around, come back to that same view. And there we are. Another great option that's…

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