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Drawing View Bounding Box?

Drawing View Bounding Box?

Drawing View Bounding Box?

(OP)
One of the ideas listed in the SolidWorks World Top 10 Ideas is for the drawing view bounding box to be returned to its former glory of being re-sized. Aside from pre-defining views, I have never had a use for the bounding boxes. More often than not they just get in the way.

What use did you have for them?

cheers

RE: Drawing View Bounding Box?

I used to resize them when they sometimes overlapped, to make then not overlap. Also when adding a break to long part, sometimes it helped to resize make fit better in the page.

Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 08
ctopher's home (updated Aug 5, 2008)
ctopher's blog
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RE: Drawing View Bounding Box?

(OP)
But re-sizing the box didn't affect the actual view of the model.  ponder or did it?

cheers

RE: Drawing View Bounding Box?

Resizing helped when I had a bunch of information on the page.  Sometimes notes would get associated with views because they were placed within that bounding box.  If I made that box as small as possible I wouldn't be moving non-associated items with the view when I wanted to arrange things.

Dan

www.eltronresearch.com
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RE: Drawing View Bounding Box?

CBL,
Yes, I saw this post and added a comment. I remember SW have this functionality versions ago, but went away in SW2007, SW2008 and SW2009(?). I welcome this functionality back with open arms.  

Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2008 SP 4.0
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
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RE: Drawing View Bounding Box?

The only time it ever affected the model was sometimes the break would move. If I added notes (text), sometimes the text would stick out of the box. I would resize so the entire text was included.

Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 08
ctopher's home (updated Aug 5, 2008)
ctopher's blog
SolidWorks Legion

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