- [Instructor] Adding a named view
inside of SOLIDWORKS is a pretty simple process
but it does require going back and forth
between your SOLIDWORKS assembly or part
and the SOLIDWORKS drawing
that you want to insert the view into.
So I'm going to start by opening up this disk part right here.
Now, I can orient this any way I want,
so I'm just going to look at the backside
and maybe turn it a little bit here,
give me an opposite angle, isometric kind of view.
So using your zoom and pan tool,
so I'm just scrolling my mouse button up and down
but you can also use all of the view buttons up top
to set the right orientation.
Once you've done that,
I'm going to hit the space bar
which is the hotkey for your orientation window
and if you go up here,
you're going to see the Add New View icon.
So when I click on that, it gives me a location
to put in the view name,
so I'm going to put opposite iso for this.
I'm going to click OK.
Now you can see that I've got this view saved down below.
I'm now actually going to go over
to the right and click Save to Save View to SOLIDWORKS.
This gives you the ability to use this view
and any of the other features and functions in SOLIDWORKS.
So I'm going to hit Save on that.
The window goes away.
If I hit space bar again,
you can see that this view is now listed here
and it shows me the orientation
and you can also see another view
that I created earlier as a test.
You can switch to those views
just by clicking on it here.
You can also go to the dropdown up above
and click on the views right here
like you normally would.
If you don't want to use the space bar
to bring up the view dialog box,
you can also, from this dropdown right here
also get new view, if you can't find it,
you can search up in the command window
for new view or just view might be better
and you can see all the options here
and you can scroll down
and find the new view feature and go to it.
But I always find the best way to do it
is to hit space bar if you've got that hotkey set.
It lets you see all the other views that you have created,
all the other orientations
and gives you really all the other options
related to orientation.
So now that we've created this view,
I'm going to hit Control + Q
to do a forced rebuild of my entire assembly.
I'm going to hit Save as well
just 'cause it's always good
to save in between major operations.
Now I'm going to switch back over to that drawing
and I'm going to go to Model View.
I'm going to double click to select the disk
and now when I scroll down,
you see that on the top of More views right here,
included with our isometric and trimetric, diametric,
we also have the isometric views that I made.
So I'm going to click on the opposite iso,
drag this into my screen
and drop it in and you can see that that orientation
is there and insert it.
So you can make any custom orientation view
that you want, so if there's a particular feature
that you want to highlight on your design.
Zoom in on that, make sure you've got a good angle.
Make a new view and then drop it in your drawing
and you can insert some notes
to highlight that particular feature.