- [Instructor] If you want to create a singular model view
inside of a SolidWorks drawing,
sometimes the best place to start
is just with the model view feature.
If we go up again to the View Layout tab,
and we're going to be using this a lot
for all of our drawing functions.
Most of the functions you're going to use in drawings
are found in View Layout, Annotation
and up here in the Insert tab.
So going back to View Layout,
we're going to click on Model View.
This brings up in the property manager a selection
for the file that we want to make the model view of.
I'm going to go ahead and double click
on the sample file right here.
You can see when I do that
it switches the property manager over
now to give me all the properties
of the view that we're going to insert.
So, starting at the top.
If we have multiple configurations of a part
we can select that here.
We can also scroll down a little bit farther
and choose our orientation. So we can use the default front
or change this to left, right, some kind of isometric view.
It's any pre-defined view that we already have available.
We can also mirror the view if we'd like to.
We also have the option to import any annotations
or dimension that we may have used in designing the part.
If your using DimXpert, for example, you can import
all of those notes from the model right into the drawing.
Sometimes this can be very handy
in speeding up your dimensioning of your drawings.
You can also choose a display state,
if you have multiple display states.
The display style. Typically I go with shaded with edges
unless it needs to be just a black and white outlined photo.
Moving down, you can also choose your scale.
If you want to choose something
other than the default already set on the drawing.
I'm going to leave these as they are.
I'm going to move my cursor over to the screen.
You see I've got an outline of what the drawing view size
is going to be, the bounding box if you will
of the drawing view.
If I left mouse button click, we create our first view.
Automatically, SolidWorks is set up
to create projected views after that.
If I swing to the right, it makes a projected view that way.
If I raise up above or in any other direction
I can create other projected views as well.
I'm going to go ahead and click escape
and now I've inserted my model view.
You can also find that function under Insert,
Drawing View, and it's the first one right here, Model.