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Insert Custom View in Drawing

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 03:29:30 GMT

Hi all,

I want to insert view in drawing, but model is 40° rotated to front plane. When i try to insert in drawing as a front view, it is taking oriented view. I need basic front view to be inserted.

Re: Insert Custom View in Drawing

mishrani — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 04:47:40 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

You can use NamedView to get the orientation you want -

1. In the design, use "Look At" (available in the bottom navigation bar) then select the face you want to see in your view. You'll now be looking at that face head on.

2. Create a new named view of that orientation (Right-click Named Views in the browser)

3. Now when you create a drawing and place the base view, select the corresponding named view as the Orientation in the Drawing View dialog.

Re: Insert Custom View in Drawing

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 06:04:02 GMT

Dear Mishrani,

Thanks for your support and quick response..!!!

Re: Insert Custom View in Drawing

HughesTooling — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 09:42:37 GMT

Just want to add if you can't orientate the view correctly add a joint origin and select when you use Look At.

Here you can see the document origin isn't aligned with the base of the triangular face but adding a joint origin and selecting with look at aligns the part.

Mark

Re: Insert Custom View in Drawing

ELAFING — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 00:28:57 GMT

I needed this tonight. Just want to say thank you.

Re: Insert Custom View in Drawing

Anonymous — Sun, 09 Jun 2019 19:37:57 GMT

I created a "named view" per your instructions. Saved the file. Created a drawing but when I placed a base view the new named view was not on the list!

Help

Re: Insert Custom View in Drawing

HughesTooling — Sun, 09 Jun 2019 20:07:53 GMT

@Anonymous Can you make a screencast of what you're doing? I just did a test and it worked correctly for me.

Mark

Re: Insert Custom View in Drawing

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 11:30:15 GMT

Good day Mark,

Thank you for replying. The missing step was to hit refresh in the drawing
and then the new view was there.

Regards,

Carl

Re: Insert Custom View in Drawing

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 11:38:38 GMT

Hi all...

Reviving an old thread here but I can't post a new one without it being marked as spam... Similar issue as op, need a custom view of an angled part but I can't make it happen when generated from an assembly... Works fine when generating drawing directly from the part. Any help greatly appreciated

Re: Insert Custom View in Drawing

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 12:03:00 GMT

Save a screen capture as a .jpg, or equal, picture file the insert the
picture in the drawing. No the most elegant solution but when all else fails
this can get the job done.

Carl

Re: Insert Custom View in Drawing

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 12:11:40 GMT

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately a jpg wont work as I need to import the drawing file into other software and need to pick up the geometry....

Re: Insert Custom View in Drawing

DokteurP — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 03:00:57 GMT

Re: Insert Custom View in Drawing

markaudacity — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 22:47:43 GMT

Necroposting because yours is the only answer I've found to this problem, but this no longer seems to work; Look At will not allow me to select a joint origin, either attached to a sketch object or to an extrusion from it. 😕

[EDIT: apparently you have to select the join origin first, then click Look At.]

Re: Insert Custom View in Drawing

gbeaudryHG2AS — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 14:44:23 GMT

THANK YOU!!!

Re: Insert Custom View in Drawing

Imprenta3D — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 11:55:32 GMT

Thanks, very hepful.

Re: Insert Custom View in Drawing

HughesTooling — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 15:58:39 GMT

Unfortunately my workaround from post #4 using a joint origin to align Look At no longer works.😠 I think when the gave us the new pretty joint origin they broke this feature.

Below I've selected the joint origin, clicked Look At but the view does not aligned to the joint origin's X and Y.

Re: Insert Custom View in Drawing

mango.freund — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 16:14:48 GMT

Re: Insert Custom View in Drawing

HughesTooling — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 16:29:51 GMT

Re: Insert Custom View in Drawing

jhackney1972 — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:25:55 GMT

If I understand your old Joint Origin / Look At command trick, I believe you can now accomplish the same process by placing the Joint Origin on your component and then use the Align command with it and the Origin point in the Browser. From that you can capture the Named View.