- [Instructor] Creating predefined views
inside of SOLIDWORKS is a great way
to set up drawing templates, for example,
or if you don't exactly have your design done
but you know what views you're going to want,
what orientations you're going to want, you can preemptively
set all those up so once your design's done,
you can just insert the model into the drawing
and have a lot of work done for you
as far as spacing, layout, and all that stuff.
So to insert a predefined view,
it's basically an empty view that we're inserting,
but it holds an orientation so that when you
put your model inside of it,
it will orient the part correctly.
So I'm going to go to Insert, Drawing View,
and from the dropdown here I'm going to select Predefined view.
And you'll notice it's categorized
with the Empty view as well.
So I click on Predefined view
and now you can see that I've got the highlighted, dashed
rectangle, if you will, showing where my view's going to go.
And I'm going to just drop it right here
'cause I'm going to start with a front view.
Now when I click that view, you see normal drawing views.
You get all of the options here on the left,
all of the preferences.
The only thing that you're missing
is what the model actually is.
And you can see when I click on this dropdown
for Insert Model, I have an option to select something
that's already open in the background.
But before I do that, I'm going to insert some projected views
for referencing this predefined view.
So if I go up to View Layout and click on Projected View,
it's already selected that front view and I can make
a top view, and I'm going to do it again
and now I'm going to create a right view,
and I can also create an isometric view as well
dragging it up to the right.
Now that I'm ready to populate this,
there's two ways to do it.
I can right-click on it and say Insert Model,
or if I have the model open in the background
with it highlighted, I can go over to the
Property Manager here and from Insert Model,
I'm going to click on the disk solid part that I have open.
So I'm going to click on that, hit okay, and now you can see
once I've clicked okay it automatically loaded up
all the other drawing views in the proper orientations.
Now if you're making templates, for example,
you can insert a bunch of predefined views
and then when someone goes to make the drawing from a part,
they're going to have that part selected
and it'll populate the views for you.
So you could see how this could be a pretty powerful tool
especially if you're working for a big company
that has to set specific standards for how things are shown
in what orientations.