- Adding a center line inside
of a SolidWorks drawing view is incredibly easy to do.
Let's jump right into it.
I'm going to click on Annotation.
And if I go all the way over
to the right underneath Center Mark, I find Centerline.
And as it says below, it inserts a centerline
to a view or to selected it entities.
So I'm going to click Centerline
and essentially all you have to do is select two things
for it to be in the center of.
So I'm going to select this edge and this edge
I get that centerline.
If I select this edge and this edge, I get this centerline.
This edge and this edge, I get the centerline right there.
If I select the outside edge and this view
and this outside edge,
I get these centerlines.
So you get the idea.
It just gives you a line
in between two parallel lines that you select.
They can be in any view.
And as long as this tool is on
you can just keep selecting the two line entities
one at a time that you want to reference to create it.
When you're done you just click
the green check mark and accept it.
If you want to be really thorough.
What I suggest doing when you're done is adding a note
right above the centerline.
And you can go here to the Add Symbol
and Centerline is actually the first symbol that pops up.
You click that and you get that centerline symbol.
Hit okay to accept the note.
And now everyone will know not only is this the centerline
but it also has the CL centerline marking.