Centerlines

[elee]

If you are creating a 3 view drawing from a model and you have a partial arc on your front view, how do you create the centerline for that arc on the right side view?

[Drewpan]

Hi,

How did you create the Centreline for the Top view? It should work exactly

the same way. One other way might be with a Section Cut line?

Cheers

Andrew

[jhackney1972 · Accepted solution]

You can create a sketch in the model to show as the center line.  In the drawing make the sketch visible and change the line type to Center 2.  It is not real efficient but it gets the job done.

[John_Wright]

I suggest you try your own advice and see how it works out....

[user015M86Y]

@elee ,

I use Center Mark Pattern

[elee]

I just tried this this morning and it didn't quite work.  Looks fine on the 3D model but I don't see it on the drawing.  It is sketch #4 and you can see the line on the model, but sketch #4 is grayed out on the drawing and I don't see the little warning symbol at the top of the page to show it isn't sinc'd with my model.

[John_Wright]

Click on the "eye" circled in the image above 🙂

[elee]

I had already tried that, didn't change anything.

[John_Wright]

This seems odd.

Can you share the project? 

[elee]

https://a360.co/42n8GHv

https://a360.co/4g67lIr

[John_Wright]

Thanks, can confirm that the I see the problem too.

Is the sketch a 3D sketch? The geometry is not drawn on the sketch plane to this may be causing the issue. @ClintBrown3D can you confirm a 3D sketch would cause this please?

If you redraw a sketch on your construction plane in the middle it works 🙂

[ClintBrown3D]

Yes, 3D sketch will not show.

Also, using the center mark pattern as suggested above will give you a nicer center mark on the partial arc

[elee]

Ok, so I now have the line, but I can't figure out how to change it to a Center2 line like your example.  I click on document settings to open that tool panel and then click on the second tab and change the linetype but I don't see how to designate which line I'm trying to change.

[ClintBrown3D · Accepted solution]

[elee]

Thank you.

[elee]

Clint, how did you change the small center mark on the front view to long centerlines?

[ClintBrown3D]