SolidWorks 2010- P17

SolidWorks 2010- P17: Whether you are a new user of SolidWorks or a professional who wants toimprove your skills, this book was written for you. Learning any softwarecan be difficult at times. You launch the software for the first time, and youfeel overwhelmed, not knowing how to even start a new document. In 3D CADprograms, it can be especially difficult. Many times a whole new vocabulary and awhole new creative environment are introduced.
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SolidWorks 2010- P17 Create an Exploded Assembly Drawing 449chapters. In fact, at this point, many of the steps in this chapter will be reviewand will be used to reinforce what you have already learned. For example, thefollowing steps describe the process of adding a drawing view to the drawing: 1. Click New in the menu bar, and select the FDC Size B - No Views drawing template in the New SolidWorks Document window. Click OK to create the new drawing. 2. Press S on your keyboard, and click the Drawings button in the shortcut bar. In the Drawings flyout, select the Model View command. 3. In the Model View PropertyManager, click the Browse button. In the Open window, locate the desk lamp assembly that you downloaded from the companion site, and click Open. 4. In the Model View PropertyManager, in the Orientation section, click the Isometric button, as shown in Figure 13.1. F I g u r E 1 3 . 1 Creating an isometric drawing view 5. In the graphics area, place the isometric view of the desk lamp assembly by pressing and releasing the left mouse button. Don’t worry too much about its placement at this point since you will be rearranging the view in a couple of minutes.Adjust the Sheet ScaleAfter placing the isometric view of the desk lamp on the drawing sheet, youmay notice that the view seems a little small when compared with how muchspace is available. If you were not concerned with the scale of the view in rela-tion to the sheet format, you could have opted to change the scale of the viewin the PropertyManager. However, since this will be the only view in the draw-ing, it should have the same scale as what is displayed in the title block. Thetitle block reflects the scale of the sheet itself and not that of any particular450 C h a p t e r 13 • M a k i n g t h e To p - L e v e l A s s e m b l y D r a w i n g view. The following steps will describe how to change the scale of the drawing, which will in turn affect the scale of the isometric drawing view: 1. Before moving on, you need to make sure that the drawing view does indeed match the sheet scale. With the mouse pointer, click the iso- metric view in the graphics area. 2. In the Scale section of the Drawing View PropertyManager, ensure that the Use Sheet Scale option is selected, as shown in Figure 13.2. This option will automatically update the scale of the isometric view to match the sheet scale as it is updated. Once the option is set, click the green check mark to close the PropertyManager. F I g u r E 1 3 . 2 Specifying that the drawing view uses the sheet scale 3. To change the overall sheet scale, right-click in any blank area of the graphics area. In the right-click menu in the Sheet section, select Properties, as shown in Figure 13.3. F I g u r E 1 3 . 3 Accessing the sheet properties in the graphics area N O t e You can also access the sheet properties in the FeatureManager by right-clicking the sheet and selecting Properties in the right-click menu. 4. Near the top of the Sheet Properties window, change the sheet scale to be 1 to 3, as shown in Figure 13.4. Click OK to apply the new sheet scale. Not only will the scale in the title block update to show the new scale, but the scale of the sheet will also be displayed in the status bar. Create an Exploded Assembly Drawing 451 F I g u r E 1 3 . 4 Specifying the sheet scale in the Sheet Properties windowShow the Drawing View in Exploded StateWhen the drawing view is placed in the drawing, it shows the last view that theassembly was saved as. In this case, the assembly was saved in its assembled state,not in the exploded state. To show the assembly in its exploded state, you mustenable the option in the drawing view properties. The following steps describe theprocess to enable the option: 1. Move the mouse pointer to within the boundary of the isometric view. Click and release the right mouse button, and select Properties from the View section of the right-click menu. N O t e You can also access the drawing view options in the Feature Manager by right-clicking the drawing view and selecting Properties in the right-click menu. 2. In the Drawing View Properties window, select the Show In Exploded State option, as shown in Figure 13.5. Click OK to close the window. F I g u r E 1 3 . 5 Show In Exploded State option in the Drawing View Properties window452 C h a p t e r 13 • M a k i n g t h e To p - L e v e l A s s e m b l y D r a w i n g Create a Named View for the Drawing Even though an isometric view is typically used to display exploded assemblies, sometimes the view will not properly display the components and how they are assembled. That is exactly the case in the example drawing. The isometric view of the exploded desk lamp shows all the components for this level of assembly, but it does not show how the lamp shade and shaft are put together. It may be obvious to us since we created the assembly, but it might not be clear to your target audience. ...