From the course: Cert Prep: SOLIDWORKS Drawing Tools
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Auxiliary views - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: Cert Prep: SOLIDWORKS Drawing Tools
Auxiliary views
- [Narrator] Auxiliary views are great if you're trying to look at surface that's not easily shown with a standard projection. In this case here, you can see I have this part here, and if I go and use a regular projection, you can see I have a view here on the left. Looks pretty good. I have one here at the top. If I click on this one again here, I can click on project a view up here. But you can see that these holes here are not really showing up correctly. I can do an isometric review, but I'd really like to see this top surface here. So go ahead and click on escape to get out of that view creation. Now, to create an auxiliary view, you want to choose the surface that is perpendicular to the face you would like to see. So in this case here, I'm going to go ahead and choose that one there, choose auxiliary view. You can see, you can just drag one out, and that's looking directly down on that surface there. It's giving us the angle that it's looking at, so it's showing that it's…
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Basic view creation4m 44s
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Section views3m 15s
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Auxiliary views2m 21s
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Alternate Position views2m 22s
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Relative to Model views3m 17s
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Broken-out section1m 58s
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View focus when creating 2D geometry3m 30s
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BOM table creation and modification2m 18s
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Sorting the BOM1m 21s
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BOM missing items2m 19s
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Accessing custom properties in BOM2m 35s
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Using equations with BOM data2m 20s
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Item numbers and their display2m 20s
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Hide/show components1m 48s
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Linked notes1m 44s
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Importing model items1m 38s
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Complex view creation4m 18s
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