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Showing detail views without showing the parent view

Showing detail views without showing the parent view

Showing detail views without showing the parent view

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I want to be able to show detail views of a part on a drawing without necessarily show the whole part. Currently I am doing this by having the whole part off the side of the drawing sheet, creating the details, and placing them as I want them on the sheet.

Is this the way to go, or is there a neater way? Can I separate the detailed view from the whole part in the way you can underive sketches?

Thanks.

RE: Showing detail views without showing the parent view

If you don't want to show the parent view on any sheet, then what you are doing is fine. I will sometimes right click on the view in the tree and hide that view, but sometimes when the next person comes along to edit the drawing they might not notice that you hid the view and confuse them. Usually when something unusual is done I put a note above/below the drawing to let the next guy know what was done.

-Joe
SolidWorks 2009 x64 SP 5.1 on Windows XP x64
8 GB RAM  -  Nvidia Quadro FX1700

RE: Showing detail views without showing the parent view

There is also the option of just cropping the parent view to show only what you want.

-Dustin
Professional Engineer
Pretty good with SolidWorks

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