From the course: Cert Prep: SOLIDWORKS Drawing Tools

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- [Narrator] In this movie we're going to be covering the methods for creating section views on your model. Now the testing client is more than likely going to ask you to download a model or drawing or both. Now in this case here I have this drawing already opened up of this bottle and we want to create a section view of the bottle. So the first thing I want to do is go up here to section view under view layout, here it is. And I have a couple different options. One is the vertical line, one's the horizontal line, and I have a couple of different options down here. But first, let's just go ahead and create a vertical line. Now I can cut this thing anywhere I want and I'm just going to cut it right about right there. Now before I click on the green check mark, notice I have this thing called edit sketch right over here. Click on that. Now I can add dimension from the line over to maybe like the corner there and go ahead and place the dimension. Let's type in one point five. Click on…

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