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Aligning views

Aligning views - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Aligning views

- [Male Narrator] If for some reason the drawing views that you're working with become misaligned, or you want to change their alignment, you do have the ability to do so inside of SolidWorks. So, all you have to do is right click on the drawing view that you want to align. You'll see the alignment option underneath view, and here we have a few options. We can align horizontally by the origin with the other view, vertically by the origin, horizontally by just the center, so align the center points independent of the origins, same thing with vertical, or some default alignment. So, for this particular example, I'm going to go vertical by center to the other view. Now you see I've snapped it over and they're now aligned together, which you can see by the construction line in between them. I'm going to drag this view up. And now I'm going to align this view to this one right here. So I'm going to right click, go to alignment,…

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