Engineering Design with SOLIDWORKS 2016

Fundamentals of Drawing Engineering Design with SOLIDWORKS® 2016

Center Marks and Centerlines

Hole centerlines are composed of alternating long and short dash

lines. Centerlines indicate symmetry. Centerlines also identify
the center of a circle, axes or cylindrical geometry.

Center Marks represents two perpendicular intersecting

centerlines. The default Size and display of the Center Mark is

set in Options, Document Properties, Dimensions,

Centerlines/Center Marks as illustrated.

Center Marks are inserted on view creation by default. Modify the position and size of

the Center Marks. The following three steps illustrate how to create a new Center Mark.

Activity: Center Marks and Centerlines

Insert a Center mark into the Front view. If a Center mark exists in Drawing View1, skip the next few
steps.
253) Click inside the Drawing View1 boundary.

254. 
     

     Click the Center Mark tool from the Annotation tab in
     the CommandManager. The Center Mark
     PropertyManager is displayed.

     
     


255. 
     

     Click the Guide Hole circumference. The Center mark
     is inserted.

     
     


256. 
     

     Click OK from the Center Mark PropertyManager.

     
     

Dimension standards require a gap between the Center

Mark and the end points of the leader line. Currently, the

leader line overlaps the Center Mark.

Insert Centerlines into the drawing views.

257. 
     

     Click the Centerline tool from the Annotation tab in
     the CommandManager. The Centerline PropertyManager
     is displayed.

     
     


258. 
     

     Click inside the Front view, Drawing View1
     boundary.

     
     


259. 
     

     Insert the needed Centerlines.

     
     


260. 
     

     Check the Select View box in the Auto Insert
     dialog box.