The standard three-view drawing usually has one anchor/parent view from which the other two orthogonal/projected views are derived along with an isometric view. In most cases, the drawing entities that occupy the most significant amount of space are the various views that show the model from multiple perspectives. The three main types of drawing components to spatially control covered here are views, annotations and title block notes.
This article looks to showcase these capabilities and walk through some specific alignment features, all while attempting to increase awareness of how you want to organize your drawing layout. There is also a fine balance between providing a high level of detail and displaying a clean, visually palatable layout that doesn’t leave the viewer cursing the heavens above.īearing this in mind, SOLIDWORKS provides an array of tools to align drawing entities and make your sheets look out of this world. Technical drawings should be something you are proud to hand to your manufacturing team or customer while serving the functional purpose of conveying all necessary specifications.
Making engineering drawings look clean while still including all relevant design and manufacturing considerations can be a huge undertaking at times.