Crème de la Crop
Well, not precisely… This is just a quick tip on how to edit a cropped drawing view. As you probably already know, whenever you create a cropped view in SolidWorks, the two things you need are a model view and a closed sketch that will define the area of the view that you wish to keep. Everything outside the sketch will be eliminated. But what happens if you make a mistake while creating the sketch or if it doesn’t include everything you needed it to show in the cropped view? Well, you can always edit the crop!
In the following image, Drawing View 3 is a cropped view, but I need to edit it somehow, so that it includes an edge that I left out when I created it.
All I have to do is right click on Drawing View 3, then click on Crop View, Edit Crop.
By doing this, I will be once again able to see the original view as it was before the crop, and I’ll also be able to edit the closed sketch that defines the crop. Notice how I’m simply modifying the closed spline, to include the edge.
After all changes to the sketch have been made, all I have to do is click Rebuild.
And the new cropped view now also includes the edge, just like I wanted.
An added tip for you Gabi, when you are placing crop sketches it is good to relate the sketch to the part geometry. Circle should be related to corners, centers, or midpoints and splines can have control point located on lines, corners, and other geometry. This locks the crop to the object should it be scaled or changed. Without locking the crop to the object the crop view will often show an incorrect area after a change has been made. This does not guarantee that your crop will always be correct, but your chances are better.
Welcome back from vacation!
Posted by: Chris Littleford | August 27, 2008 at 01:13 PM
Hi Chris,
Thanks for the tip! Vacation is great, but it's good to be back!
Posted by: Gabi Jack | August 27, 2008 at 03:02 PM
Got confused with title "Crème de la Crop" thought it's unrelated to SolidWorks!
Posted by: sachin | August 28, 2008 at 03:46 AM
Yeah, my bad... I was running out of corny tittles... I'll give it more thought in the future. ;-)
Posted by: Gabi Jack | August 28, 2008 at 10:09 AM