SolidWorks 2011 Assemblies Bible - Matt Lombard [142]
FIGURE 16.22
Comparing high- and draft quality views
You can change the defaults for this setting in the System Options at Tools⇒Options⇒Drawings⇒Display Style⇒Display quality for new views. As you might imagine, this is not a template setting, but is only a system option. If someone with a faster computer has this option set to high quality already, and they send you drawings, then you will not be able to set them back to draft quality.
Note
With the system option set to high quality, it is still possible to create new drawings with draft quality views. This may be because I use Predefined views on my templates, where the Predefined views are set to draft quality (probably made before I changed this setting). So even though high- and draft quality views are system options, by using templates with predefined views, you can make this feature work like a document property.
Keep in mind that it is easy to confuse the Cosmetic Thread Display with the Display Style. They both toggle between high quality and draft quality, and when you are just looking for those features, you may settle on the first one you see with this label.
Tutorial: Creating a Simple Assembly Drawing
This tutorial guides you through creating a simply assembly drawing. Follow these steps:
1. Create a new drawing from the New dialog box. Select Inch B Bible Template (no Views).drwdot; as the filename indicates, this template document has no predefined views. If you select a default SolidWorks template, then you need to verify that the template uses third-angle rather than first-angle projection. An easy way to do this is to switch the drafting standard from ISO to ANSI in Tools⇒Options⇒Document Properties⇒Drafting Standard. If the automatic Model View interface appears in the PropertyManager, click the red X icon to cancel out of it.
2. Expand the Task pane and activate the View Palette (the tab that looks like a drawing icon). Click the ellipsis button (...) and browse for the assembly named Chapter 16. SF casting assembly.sldasm. The View Palette is shown in Figure 16.23.
3. Drag the Back view onto the drawing. Notice that when you use this technique, the views do not resize automatically, regardless of the setting at Tools⇒Options⇒Drawings⇒Automatically Scale New Drawing Views.
4. Delete any view that you have created using this method. Open Windows Explorer, browse to the assembly, and drag it into the drawing. The views that you create using this method are equivalent to the Standard 3 View tool. This time, the views automatically size.
5. Select the Front view and change it to the Back view. Notice that the rest of the views change to reflect the new parent view. You will get a warning about this change.
FIGURE 16.23
The View Palette
6. Zoom in on the Back view. Change the view to show Tangent Edges With Font through View⇒Display. You can also make this change from the view RMB menu.
7. Click the Alternate Position View toolbar button. Type a name in the PropertyManager for a new configuration and click the green check mark icon. SolidWorks opens the assembly model window.
8. Rotate the handle 90 degrees and click the green check mark icon. SolidWorks returns to the drawing and shows the new position in a dashed font, as shown in Figure 16.24.
9. Place an isometric view on the drawing. Change the Display mode to make it a shaded view.
10. Right-click inside the view (but away from the parts), and select Properties. The Drawing View Properties dialog box appears, displaying the View Properties tab, as shown in Figure 16.25. Make sure that the view is set to use the Default configuration, and also select the Show in exploded state option.
FIGURE 16.24
Creating an Alternate Position View
FIGURE 16.25
The Drawing View Properties dialog box
Summary