Chapter 4: Creating Simple Parts, Assemblies, and Drawings
- When you flip back to the drawing (using Ctrl+Tab), the Name column now con-
tains the value of your initials.
- Click the Section View button on the Drawings toolbar. This activates the Line com-
mand so that you can draw a section line in a view. When sketching, a line can go either
on the Sheet or in a view. This is similar to the distinction between the Sheet and the
Format. To make a section view, the section line sketch must be in the view. You will
know that you are sketching in a view when a pink border appears around the view. You
may also use Lock View Focus from the RMB menu to lock view focus manually.
- Bring the cursor down to the circular edge of the slot to activate the center point of
the arc. Once the center point is active, you can use the dotted inference lines to ensure
that you are lined up with the center. Another option is to create manually sketch rela-
tions. Turning on temporary axes displays center marks in the centers of arcs and circles.
Figure 4.25 shows the technique with the inference lines being used. Draw the section
line through the slot and then place the section view.
FIGURE 4.25
Creating a section view
- As mentioned earlier, you can use two fundamentally different methods for dimen-
sioning drawings:
l Model Items imports the dimensions used to build the SolidWorks model and uses
them on the drawing. These dimensions are bi-directionally associative, meaning that
changing them on the drawing updates the model, and changing them on the model
