Creating a SolidWorks Part and Assembly template with reverse isometric view

I was in the good city of St Louis, MO yesterday and had a great question asked by a gentleman there. “How can I easily create a Reverse Isometric View I need to do that more times than not.

So Here is how you go.

1. Open a blank SolidWorks Part/Assembly file.


2. Hold Control Key and hit the 2 key on the top row of the keyboard. (This will put you in the BACK view)
   


3. Hit your SPACE BAR key ( This brings up the orientations box)


4. Single Mouse Click on the word FRONT in this orientations box.


5. Click on UPDATE STANDARD VIEWS on the orientations box. ( This will make the current orientation the Front view.


6. Double Click *ISOMETRIC (You’ll notice the triad in the bottom left will be in a different orientation


7. Hit your SPACE BAR key


8. Click on NEW VIEW the orientations box (This will bring up Named View Dialog)


9. Name the new view REV ISO
   


10. Click on RESET STANDARD VIEWS the orientations box (This will reset the view to normal)


11. Go to File Save As


12. Change the Save As Type to Part Template


13. Save you new Template


14. 

Have fun,

Bob McGaughey, CSWE

Computer Aided Technology, Inc.

ISOMETRIC BROKEN OUT SECTION WITH CROP

        I had a question come up the other day with a cropped view. The customer was asking for a broken out section, (which BTW is an Awesome feature in Solidworks!) He had already cropped the view because it was a 95' long part and that did not look to good on the sheet. He was looking to get inside and show off
some of the componentry in the detail if you will. The problem is that this a current limitation in an Isometric view. So how do you work around this you ask???? Well I came up with this- in the assembly you can do a spline on a plane normal to the view you want to cut.

        I created a configuration at the assembly level called cutaway and sketched a spline at the assembly level.  I was able to control which parts it affected and if I wanted it to propagate back to parts. (No not really)

            So in the view it ends up looking like this after picking the correct configuration. All that is left is to use the break command from the View Layout toolbar on the command manager.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Todd Werginz, Technical Analyst

CATI