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Empty view - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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- [Instructor] Another great tool inside of SOLIDWORKS drawings is the ability to use an empty view inside of SOLIDWORKS drawings. This doesn't seem really obvious at first but let's say that you don't want to put information that's attached with a certain SOLID part file, so you're not doing a model view of a part you're trying to get made, you're not trying to do a sketch entity or a sketch layout that you want to bring in here and scale. Instead, you want to, for example, group a set of notes together an be able to move them all over the drawing together. You can do that with an empty view. So I'm going to go up here to the top, click on Insert, Drawing View and then come down and you'll see Empty view here. You see down at the bottom of the screen, it tells you it adds an empty view that is often used to contain sketch entities. So I mentioned notes as my example but you can also put sketch entities inside the empty…

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