Have any questions? Let us know! Learn more about Draftsight. This process eliminates that slow tedious work by changing your sketch orientation to Isometric, and snapping to the normal angles you’d need and expect is super easy by activating the Ortho snap settings.
Traditionally, I was always taught to sketch isometric views in other 2D CAD programs by calculating the angles and drawing extension lines from the 2D profiles. For the cube below, it’s just takes switching between 3 easily accessible “planes”. Step 3: Draw! Switching “planes” is as easy as hitting the F5 button on your keyboard. Step 2: Turn on Ortho Snapping (Select the “Ortho” button on the bottom) (RMB on the Grid icon on the bottom, hit Settings, then hit the Isometric radio button under “Orientation”.) Step 1: Switch your grid settings to Isometric. If you are in the process of creating a Draftsight drawing – and need to create a quick isometric view – you can follow the process below: To copy the dimension, hold CTRL instead to drag a duplicate dimension into another Drawing View.įor more Drawing tips check out the video below.Draftsight Highlights – Easily draw “Isometric Views” within Draftsightĭraftsight is a 2D CAD program, but that doesn’t mean you can’t create an isometric view. Hold SHIFT while selecting the dimension to drag and drop it onto the desired view. To help format your Drawing to meet drafting standards, it may be necessary to move dimensions between Drawing Views. When they come in, some cleanup may be needed to get the Dimensions where they need to be (though SOLIDWORKS typically does a decent job at positioning them).
The next section lists categories for the various Annotation types:įinally, with your selections in place, you can click the green arrow and SOLIDWORKS will bring in the Model Items. You can also select to 'remove duplicates'. The first section is the Dimensions Section, with the following category filters: To further refine what items you are bringing in are three sections, with several categories of "marks". This will spread the new dimensions out across all the Drawing Views. One of the first options you can choose is whether to Import Items into all views. This will add all the dimensions of the part from all Features and Sketches into the Drawing.
The second option to bring in Model Items is for the Entire Model. Setting turned on (Left) and turned off (Right) Entire Model If you deselect this option and insert the dimensions, you may find they come in with a cleaner and more defined format.įigure 4.
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The Use Dimension Placement in Sketch option will bring in the dimensions as they are shown in the Sketch they are pulled from. Have you ever wondered how to take any logo and make it compatible with your laser or water jet cutter Alignex engineer Eric Weber walks you through how to do exactly that by turning your standard. This is because of a setting at the very bottom of the Model Items FeatureManager, in the Options sections. When you insert dimensions using Insert Model Items, you might notice that they come in at odd locations and are not aligned with one another. Dimensions (gray) and Model Items (black). Further, the black dimensions are fully parametric you can double click the Model Item dimension and change it to directly modify the part (a rebuild may be required).įigure 3. You can tell the difference between a Smart Dimensions and an inserted Model Item, as the former is grey and the latter black. If you choose Selected Feature, you can click a feature (from the Feature Manager Design Tree) or a face/edge of the model in a Drawing View, and SOLIDWORKS will populate the dimensions associated with the selected item. Using Insert Model Items, you can choose between two different sources of dimensions: Entire Model or Selected Feature. To design & develop models, you should have knowledge of DraftSight. No Exercise is a prerequisite for another. Each exercises can be assigned and designed separately. These exercises are from Basics to Advance level. This guide will go over how to use this tool and the options available to bring in your desired dimensions.įigure 1. Clear and well drafted drawing help easy understanding of the design. I am sure if you look hard enough you should be able to find a video or two about the subject and maybe even an independently written tutorial. The Insert Model Items tool allows us to bring those existing dimensions into our SOLIDWORKS Drawings. I havent looked but maybe printing to scale from Draftsight is covered in one or the other E-Book called Tips & Tricks (Vol.
However, if we used fully defined sketches creating the part, these dimensions already exist. This method gives us the gray dimension we are commonly used to. When dimensioning a part in a SOLIDWORKS Drawing, the standard method is to select the Annotations tab and use the Smart Dimension tool.
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