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Model break views within drawings

Model break views within drawings - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Model break views within drawings

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- [Instructor] One of the more unique representations we use inside of a SOLIDWORKS drawing is a model break view within a drawing. Now unlike other views that we create in SOLIDWORKS drawings this view actually starts in the SOLIDWORKS part or SOLIDWORKS assembly, and that's where we actually create the view or the settings for the view and then we can display them inside of a drawing view in SOLIDWORKS, so let me show you what I mean. Right here, we have a part file. It represents a box with a pipe running to another box. This is a pretty long item. When I switch over to the drawing template that I want to put it on, it's just too big and it's isometric and I want to shrink it down so that I can see it a little bit more clearly and really, all I want to do is cut it from here to here and bring it together. So I'm going to switch back to my part file. We're going to go up to insert, go down about half way and we see model…

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