Introduction to SolidWorks

Lesson 12 – Creating Detail Drawings
Section V – Creating Engineering Drawings 12.4 Creating a Detail Drawing of the Deck

 In our deck example we will click to place the top view and repeat to place an isometric

view and the right side view. See the detail drawing of the SkateboardDeck in the

Appendix.

Click and drag each of the views to notice that:

1. When moving the Front view, the Top and
   Right views also move.


2. The Top view moves only up and down and
   will always stay aligned with the Front view.


3. The Right view also stays aligned with the
   Front view.


4. The Isometric view is free to move in any
   direction.

Step 103: Click over the Isometric view to make it active and the
drawing view PropertyManager will appear on the left side of the
screen. See Figure 12.9.

 In the Display Style dialog box, select the Shaded With

Edges option. Notice how the Isometric view changes.

 Try the other options and other views to see the changes.

 When you finish exploring the options, click the check

mark.

Drafting Standards

Drawings are legal documents and are in court to adjudicate fault in

negligence cases. For that reason, they must be accurate and

correct. Many reviews by multiple reviewers are needed to insure

accuracy and correctness and this makes the process of producing

drawings labor and time intensive.

Although computers and CAD software like SolidWorks have

reduced the time and effort necessary to create drawings, they have

not replaced humans. The creation of drawings is more art than

science and only humans can decide what is appropriate and looks

best. There are guidelines developed from experience that can help

produce attractive and complete drawings with all the information

needed to build a product or structure. These guidelines are usually

collected in standards and drafting practice manuals. Two popular

standards are ANSI and ISO. ANSI (American National Standards

Institute) is common in the United States, Canada and the U.K.

while ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is used

worldwide. In addition, every engineering organization will have a

drafting practices manual.

Part Names and Part Numbers

Parts are tracked by their part number, not

their part name. The reason is that it is

easier to organize, store and retrieve a

sequence of numbers than descriptive

names. A part number will typically include

information about the project and the

assembly where it belongs.

This is the reason why SolidWorks stores

the name you use to save your drawing as

the part number.

Figure 12. 9 – Selecting Display

StyleShaded

With Edges