Creating a detail view for the first time can be a daunting task. This article helps to break down the process by walking you through each step, from creating a new view to adding an annotation to describe what's being shown.
Key Insights
- The article explains how to create a detailed view for the first time. This involves creating a new view, adjusting the view settings, and unchecking perspective view to establish an orthographic, isometric, or axonometric view.
- Once the new view is set, the article guides on how to adjust the proportion of the view to make it smaller, place the detailed view on the page, and increase the scale to improve visibility.
- The article also demonstrates how to add an annotation to the detailed view to describe what's being shown. This includes creating a note, connecting it with an arrow to a part of the view, and adjusting the note's characteristics like font, size, and color.
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In this video we're going to create a detail view for the first time. So this is where we left off with our section view shown here. Let's go ahead and give this sheet its own name.
We'll right click and go to rename and call this section views. All right and then let's go into our perspective page, right click on that tab, hit copy, right click again, hit paste and then move this one to the very end. Now what I'd like to do is grab a detail of this space right here.
The only problem is SOLIDWORKS has trouble taking details from perspective views. You have to either be in an orthographic projection or some form of an isometric or axonometric view. So simply what we can do is click on the view itself and establish one of those views.
Let's see what that looks like. So I like the isometric projection but it's kind of facing the wrong side of our playground. We may have to create a custom view so let's just go ahead and do that now.
We'll make sure we click on the view and go to open assembly. Let's go up to our view settings and uncheck perspective view. Let's bring up our view cube and grab the face that allows us to look at our playground in this direction.
Once you have this set on your computer, let's create a new view. We'll call this new iso view. Beautiful.
Hit okay, save your work. You can go ahead and just minimize that and then maximize this drawing. Now we can click on this view here and check new iso view and watch it update.
It's a little bit large so let's make it smaller by increasing or decreasing this proportion here. Let's make this 1 to 30. See what that looks like.
All right, that's actually pretty good. We can move it over here to this corner. What I want to do is grab a detail showing this bracket alone so we can get a closer idea of what that looks like as well as add an annotation to describe what's being shown.
Let's go to detail view in the drawing tab and we'll need to pick where the beginning of this view is going to happen. Let's just pick somewhere in the middle of this space I'm describing here which will probably be around say right here. Drag it out so we can see some of where the roof ends a little bit of the slide and the bracket is in the middle.
Once you've done that, you can place it anywhere else on the page that you see fit and close it out with escape. This C is sitting here on our view so I'm going to click it and move it so we can see that a little bit more clearly. There we go and here it describes detail C which is scaled at 1 to 15.
Let's go ahead and increase that scale just a little bit. I'm going to make that 1 to 12. There we go, that looks pretty good.
All right, let me move this down over here. Now I want to describe what this bracket is. In order to do so, I can use an annotation.
If we go to basic drawing tools and go to this big letter A here, it's called note. We can create a note just by itself. We just simply click and start typing our text.
We can also create a note that is linked or connected with an arrow to some part of one of our views. In case I'll grab this roof over here and say this is a roof. There we go and once that's done we can move the note around.
We can also grab where it connects to by grabbing the point at the end of the arrow. We can grab a surface or an edge. There we go.
We can delete a note by simply highlighting it and hitting delete or right clicking and selecting delete. For this particular view we're going to add a note that connects to this bracket. Let's go to note and grab say one of the holes on our bracket and drag it out.
For this we're going to say steel sheet metal attachment bracket return and we'll go quarter inch thick steel semi-colon galvanized finish or let's say blackened finish. There we go. Once you're happy with your note you can go ahead and click the green check mark.
If we click back into the note, double clicking it, we have the opportunity to change the font, the size, the color, make it bold, italicize, underline but for right now let's just leave it how it currently is. Beautiful. Let's just set that so it looks good against our drawing.
All right. Once you've done that go ahead and save your work. All right and that's it for this video.
In the next video we're going to bring a sub-assembly into our drawing and begin to describe it within the drawing file.
