Lesson 12 – Creating Detail Drawings
Section V – Creating Engineering Drawings 12.4 Creating a Detail Drawing of the Deck
- Avoid dimensions to hidden lines, if possible.
- Never dimension inside the part.
All the rules can be overruled to make the drawing clear and aesthetically pleasant.
To create dimensions in SolidWorks drawings, use Smart Dimension and:
- click a line to display its length dimension, or
- click each of the two points at the end of a line to show the distance between the
points, which is also the length of the line, or - click two parallel lines to display the distance between the lines, or
- click two lines that are not parallel to display the angle, or
- click a diameter of a circle or an arc to display their diameter or radius.
When you click a dimension it becomes active and you can see the dimension
PropertyManager. See Figure 12.10.
Figure 12. 10 – PropertyManager (^)