- [Instructor] When working in SolidWorks drawings,
sometimes you have a requirement to take a particular view
that's very long, let's say, and shorten it down.
We can do this with the Break View feature.
If we go up to View Layout and down towards the end here
we see Break View; this adds break lines
to a selected view and basically cuts a section
of the view out and shrinks it down.
So you can see down below I'm working on a custom
extrusion drawing, and I've got my profile on the left
that I'm going to start dimensioning; but on my right,
I've got the length of the extrusion
that I want to convey to the manufacture.
But you can see it's really long.
It goes way off the page, but really all I got to
tell them is that it's 100 inches long.
So what I'm going to do is go up here and hit Break View.
I'm going to select this view on the right,
and now I'm going to go over to the properties
for Break View and adjust these as needed.
So you can set the cut direction.
So, for me, I'm going to do vertical break lines;
so you can see I get a preview here.
You can do straight lines, curve cuts,
zig-zag, a small zig-zag,
or a jagged cut, doesn't really matter which one you use.
I'm going to just keep it on the zig-zag cut.
I'm going to click here, and then I'm going to zoom out
and go down the part and click on the other end right here.
Now you can see automatically it has shrunk down this view,
but I, I'm going to hit escape, but I still have the dimension
and all the information that's necessary.
So I'm going to drag this view back over, hit zoom to sheet,
and now all the information I need is on this page
and I've shrunk down this extra long view.
If I want to adjust the gap size here, I can do that.
I can make it .25; I can make it bigger if I want.
It's up to you; it really is up to your preference.
There's no rhyme or reason to it
unless you're following a specific drawing standard.