Introduction to SolidWorks

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

Step 104: If you can see the blue origin in your drawing, you can toggle on/off by clicking
ViewOrigin.

 Other View menu options include: Temporary Axes, Points, Sketch Relations and

others.

 For drawings, it is best to select Hide All Types.

 Change your drawing template to include ViewHide All Types and save it.

Step 105: Next, we will insert a vertical break.

 Vertical and horizontal breaks are used when objects have one dimension that is

significantly larger than the others, for example flagpoles and pipelines. The break

allows them to be drawn in a scale that shows the smaller dimensions clearly.

 Click to select the Front view and click InsertDrawing ViewVertical Break to get

the PropertyManager.

 Move the cursor to the location where you want to place the first break line and click

again to place the second line.

 Repeat the previous step to create a break in the Top view. The results are shown in the

detail drawing in the Appendix.

Step 106: To see the edge chamfer clearly, we will create a detail view.

 Click InsertDrawing ViewDetail.

 Click in the middle of the area that you want to include in your detail view and drag the

cursor to create a circle.

 Release the mouse button.

 Drag the detail view to the location you want and click again to release.

Step 107: Dimensioning is both, a science with rules, and also art, where the designer must be
aware of aesthetics.

 It is possible to conceive multiple arrangements of dimensions that are valid and

acceptable but different.

 The most important rules are:

1. The drawing must have all the dimensions needed to fabricate the part.


2. No double dimensions.


3. Dimension the most logical view.


4. Group related dimensions in the same view.


5. Use clear dimensions that can be interpreted only one way.


6. Minimize the accumulation of tolerances.