Chapter 21: Working with Drawing Views
When sketching, remember to make sure that you are sketching in the view rather than
on the sheet. A section view cannot be created from a sketch entity if it is not in a view. A
glance at the status bar in the lower-right corner of the window lets you know if you are
in Editing View or Editing Sheet.
To change the letter label on the drawing, click the section line and change the label in
the top panel of the Section View PropertyManager.
Note that you may see a Section Scope dialog box asking you to omit rib features. Ribs
are usually not hatched in section views.
- Bring the cursor over the corner in the section line until the cursor looks like the
image to the left. Double-click the cursor; the section arrows flip to the other direction,
and the drawing view becomes cross-hatched. The cross-hatching indicates that the view
needs to be updated. - Press Ctrl+Q; the view updates, removing the cross-hatching.
- Click the section line and press Delete. Answer Yes to the prompt. You may also need
to separately delete the sketched section line. - Create a new section view using a jogged section line, as shown in Figure 21.33. In
order to do this, you must pre-draw the jogged section line, and press the Section View
button with the part of the line that you want to use to project the new view.
FIGURE 21.33
Creating a jogged section view- Next, click the Detail View button on the Drawings toolbar. This activates the Circle
sketch tool. - Sketch a circle in the Front view, located in the lower-left section of the drawing.
Try not to pick up any automatic relations to the center of the circle. One way to prevent
this is to hold down the Ctrl key when creating the sketch. - Place the view when the circle is complete. Note that the view was created at a scale of
1:2. The sheet scale is 1:4, and so the detail is two times the sheet scale. The Detail View
is shown in Figure 21.34.