- [Instructor] Adding a section view
to your SOLIDWORKS drawing is a great way
to add detail and clarity.
Sometimes you can't tell what the views
that are available what exactly's going on
with a specific design.
Also, sometimes you can say a lot more
with a section view than you can with multiple views
around a part.
So a section view is literally just a cut through
or a cross section of a part
that's dictated by a line that you orient.
To create the section view, we go up to the View Layout tab
and click on Section View.
Over on the left, we have a few options.
Vertical, horizontal, auxiliary and aligned.
We're going to show to do an aligned section view
in the next video.
Let's go ahead and make a vertical section view.
I'm going to click on Vertical
and as I drag over to the views,
you see I have a pink vertical line,
that's my section where I'm going to be cutting through.
So I'm going to put this on the center point of this circle.
I'm going to go ahead and click the green Accept
and now I'm going to drag my section view over,
click again to place it
and now we can see on the left side,
all of the properties of the section view.
Because I've been practicing
and made a couple other section views,
I started at letter C.
I'm going to change that by hitting the Cap Locks
and entering right here A.
As you scroll down, you have a few other options
you might want to take advantage of.
You can do a partial section,
a slice section, auto hatching,
scale hatch pattern or emphasize the outline.
So if you want to make it really clear
where the outline is.
You can turn that on.
If you want to do a partial section,
you don't have to cut all the way through.
If you want to do a section depth.
So let's say you don't want to see any features
that are on this wall over here,
you can turn on the section depth
and actually adjust how far your section goes.
Now, if I drag it back here
so it's in between these circles,
it's going to change it a little bit.
So you notice that change right there.
So I'm going to click on the section view again
and turn off section depth.
Drag down.
There're a couple other properties here as well
but they're the same properties that we use
for any other drawing views.
The only other one that might be important
is flipping the direction.
So you can see right here on the section view,
it points in the direction that it's cutting.
If you want to, you can flip the direction the other way
and get the different results.
So for this particular part,
I have a chamfer on one side
and a filet on the other side
and as you flip the directions,
you can see that flipping sides.
So a section view can be pretty easy
and now you can just go ahead
and put all the details in there,
all the dimensions that you normally would.
If you do scale up your section view,
or shrink it,
you will get the scale readout as well here in the note.