slddrw editor - huh?
slddrw editor - huh?
(OP)
SW2009.0.0
After a year and a half, I'm getting better at modeling.
Not so much at working with the drawing editor.
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Is there some workflow, or product structure, for which the SW drawing editor is actually well adapted, and doesn't continuously guess wrong about what I want to do?
Is there a video somewhere that will help me understand how I'm doing everything wrong?
Yeah, the tutorials... out of phase with the actual menu structure, maybe not a lot, but enough to be very confusing.
We used to have two guys who were _way_ faster than me, and would answer a question with a demonstration, conducted at lightning speed, with banter about the 'old school' way and the 'new school' way and the 'official' way, and ... well, they're both gone.
After a year and a half, I'm getting better at modeling.
Not so much at working with the drawing editor.
<boring diatribe deleted>
Is there some workflow, or product structure, for which the SW drawing editor is actually well adapted, and doesn't continuously guess wrong about what I want to do?
Is there a video somewhere that will help me understand how I'm doing everything wrong?
Yeah, the tutorials... out of phase with the actual menu structure, maybe not a lot, but enough to be very confusing.
We used to have two guys who were _way_ faster than me, and would answer a question with a demonstration, conducted at lightning speed, with banter about the 'old school' way and the 'new school' way and the 'official' way, and ... well, they're both gone.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA






RE: slddrw editor - huh?
Sorry, I don't 100% understand.
Are you looking for steps for creating drawings?
Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 08; CATIA V5
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RE: slddrw editor - huh?
Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
and Mechnical.Engineering Yahoo! Group
RE: slddrw editor - huh?
Do you mean the DWGeditor, or the regular SW mode which creates the 2D drawing views from the 3D model?
Can you give some examples of where you are doing 'everything wrong'? It's hard to point out what's wrong when we don't know what you are actually doing.
RE: slddrw editor - huh?
I'm talking about the 'regular' editor that makes a 2D slddrw file from a 3D model.
I'm a mechanical engineer, with 4+ decades of experience.
I've used AutoCAD since version 9.
I've been using Solidworks for about a year and a half.
Yesterday, I was trying to make a multi-sheet fab drawing for a welded assembly, comprising an isometric assembled view with BOM, several sheets of details, and a sheet of views from odd angles with weld symbols. I eventually got it done, but the process was more aggravating than I think it should be, and the result is still a compromise between what I want and what SW will allow me to do in the time available.
... Sorry, I'm running out of display resources again and have to reboot. More later perhaps.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: slddrw editor - huh?
Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 08; CATIA V5
ctopher's home (updated Aug 5, 2008)
ctopher's blog
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RE: slddrw editor - huh?
Sometimes it is easier to create specific orientation views in the model, or even a config in the model with a cut-extrude to simulate a section, and then call those into a drawing view.
RE: slddrw editor - huh?
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I'm having serious issues with SW progressively forgetting to redraw the feature tree area, but that's not today's problem.
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Yesterdays' complaint was about the user interface of the drawing editor, the elegance of which I clearly do not see through the complexity of its schizophrenic behaviors.
But that was yesterday's problem.
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Here's a more specific question, related to CBL's response, and to some of the things I've been trying to do.
In the dialog to Create a Relative View, SW asks me to pick TWO FACES of my model.
It seems to then go on and create a view perpendicular to one of those faces. Why did it ask for two?
I'm trying to create a view that's NOT perpendiculr to ANY face of the model.
Say I want something like the 'isometric' view, but from a different quarter than the one SW picks.
How can I do that?
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: slddrw editor - huh?
-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)
RE: slddrw editor - huh?
RE: slddrw editor - huh?
Similarly, insert Current Model View makes sense, given Handleman's explanation.
I think the wrong people are writing help topics for SW.
Thanks, all.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: slddrw editor - huh?
<ducks for cover>
-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)
RE: slddrw editor - huh?
RE: slddrw editor - huh?
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: slddrw editor - huh?
Afterwards you can delete the original view if it is not needed.
RE: slddrw editor - huh?
"I'm trying to create a view that's NOT perpendiculr to ANY face of the model. Say I want something like the 'isometric' view, but from a different quarter than the one SW picks. How can I do that?"
Orient the 3D model the way you need it, save the view as a new view, select that view from the view palette.
RE: slddrw editor - huh?
If you want to use DWG Editor Better look up the Intellicad product on which it's based. Roller Wheel zoom is in wrong direction just like using Yahoo when you're used to Google maps
Michael