- [Instructor] When sketching in drawings
the main thing that you want to pay attention to
is where exactly you're sketching at any given time.
There is a difference between sketching in a drawing view
and on the sheet just generally.
So what do I mean by that?
I'm going to go up here to the sketch tab
and just create some lines.
I'm going to hover over this drawing view
and just start sketching.
So I'm just going to put this little triangle
in here and hit escape.
Now you can see when I hit escape
the colors of the lines change from blue to gray.
If I click on the drawing view again
they turn back to blue, so what this is indicating
is that this sketch entity that I have in here
is part of this drawing view.
So as I grab this drawing view and move it across the sheet,
you'll notice that the sketch that I put in it
stays with it and is highlighted blue
when I'm dragging it because I'm editing it.
And when I let go, click over on
the other side of the screen, it goes back to gray.
If I go in and change the scale of this view,
I'm going to go ahead and turn that up,
you'll notice that the scale of
the sketch entities stay with it as well.
So I'm going to go ahead and put some dimensions
on here just for reference.
And we'll go ahead and scale this view again,
back down to where it was.
And you can see the dimensions stay the same.
Now, you can also sketch just on the sheet
and not have it linked to any particular view.
You just go ahead and use the sketch tools,
make sure you're not hovering over any particular view
and just start drawing lines.
It's not going to move around with all the other views
on the sheet and when you're not on it will fade out gray
again, indicating that you're not editing it.
But if you click on the sheet generally,
so I'm just hitting my left mouse button
in the middle of the screen and not selecting
any particular view, it will become activated.
Also if you click on a view and then just click on
one of the lines itself, it'll activate it again.
So you can see that you're editing it
but it works a little bit differently than this sketch.
You can scale it based on the scale of the sheet
but it won't change if you just change
the scale of your views.
You have to change the scale of the entire drawing.
So you just have to be aware of that,
sometimes what happens is, you'll have a sketch
that's really close to a drawing view
and you think it's part of a drawing view.
It might even go through a drawing view
but in all reality, that sketch is not part of that drawing
view and you'll try to edit it and move it and scale it
and it won't be with it.
You want to make sure when you make that first entity
that the drawing view is highlighted in blue here and active
so that it becomes a part of it.
Additionally, you have the ability to draw
on different layers of this drawing.
So right now we're editing the sheet
but you can also edit the format
which is where all of these lines exist.
So I can sketch different entities in here
for reference, for example, and then when I go back
to edit my sheet and not the sheet format,
those sketches are all grayed out
and I can't even select them.
So if for some reason you have a sketch in a drawing
that you can't edit, you can't select,
right click and go to edit sheet,
it might be on the sheet layer
and that's where you're going to go to edit it.