- [Instructor] One quick and easy way to insert
drawing views into your SOLIDWORKS drawing
is by using the View Palette task pane on the right.
So if I go over to the right side of my screen
and hover over this icon that looks like a drawing,
we see View Palette, it says Click to display
this task pane tab.
I click on that and you see here first thing a drop down.
If I click on this drop down, this list contains
all of the open parts that I have in the background
and if I select one of them, it should automatically
generate the drawing views and every angle
for that particular part.
Now, if I switch to another part, for example,
it's going to load up those views.
The orthogonal views and all of the angled views as well.
If I switch that one more time to part two,
we can see here again we have all of the views.
Now to bring these views into the drawing,
you simply just left mouse button click down on them,
you'll see that it'll highlight in blue,
and then you can drag it over into the drawing
and place it.
Automatically it should give you the projected view option
so you can make your other projected views,
but I'm going to hit Escape, go back over to the View Palette
and this time I'm going to hit this pin
to stick that pane on the side and it's going to
resize my window so that I can work appropriately.
What you'll notice here now is since I've inserted
the front view already, it has a little check box
and a drawing icon, meaning that it's in my drawing.
If I grab another view from here and drag it in
and drop it, that view is now checked as well.
I'm going to hit Escape to stop the projected view.
I'm going to do the same thing with my right view,
I'm going to grab it and drag it in
and you can see that it automatically want to align it
with the front view because it's the right view.
It did the same thing with the top view.
I'm going to drop that in, and again,
this is going to check that box.
So this is a good way to make sure
that you've put in all of the view that you need
if you're always going to use the standard
three views and then maybe an isometric view.
And you've got everything available here.
And what's nice is you can also preview the views.
So if you notice that your orientation is off
or anything like that, you can go into the part file
and adjust it automatically.
Now, if the part that you want to insert isn't here,
you can click on a little triple period icon.
Here you can click on this triple period icon
which gives you the ability to browse through
your computer and find a SOLIDWORKS part
or SOLIDWORKS assembly that you can then load up
in these views.