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Can I move a (detail, auxiliary, section) view to another page?

Can I move a (detail, auxiliary, section) view to another page?

Can I move a (detail, auxiliary, section) view to another page?

(OP)
Newbie question here... In a drawing, I create multiple section, auxiliary and detail views.

Is there a way to move the resultant view to another page? I want the parent/child link to stay alive but I just don't have enough space on the first page to show everything.

So it's Parent view (PV1) on page 1. Detail of PV1 to be displayed on page 2.

It's a pretty common drafting practice and I just can't find the way to do it in Solidworks, 2011 64-bits.

Thanks!

RE: Can I move a (detail, auxiliary, section) view to another page?

Cut and Paste (Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V) usually works.

You should also be able to drag and drop from the View manager. The parent sheet has to be active.  

RE: Can I move a (detail, auxiliary, section) view to another page?

(OP)
CTRL-X / CTRL-V doesn't work.  When I CTRL-X the view, I get the "Delete View" dialog box.  Even when I CTRL-C / CTRL-V, the paste step doesn't work.

I was able to do it with Drag & Drop in the view manager.  The parent link seems to remain since I'm able to "Jump to Parent View" from a page to another.  Thanks CorBlimeyLimey!

RE: Can I move a (detail, auxiliary, section) view to another page?

I've had problems with this before.  You want to make sure you select the view and not some part inside the view.  That is don't drag a box around what you want to cut.  Just go to the page and select the view border so that the view properties shows up on the task pane and hit cntl-x.  I remember that at one time I couldn't get it to work and closed SW and reopened it and it worked fine.  Don't know if that was a SW problem or if I was messing something up.

-Kirby

Kirby Wilkerson

Remember, first define the problem, then solve it.

RE: Can I move a (detail, auxiliary, section) view to another page?

Quote (daofdesign):

When I CTRL-X the view, I get the "Delete View" dialog box.
That is as expected. Ctrl X is a cut (delete) function. Accept the "Delete View" option (the view will be held in the Clipboard cache) and continue onto the Paste (Ctrl V) function.

RE: Can I move a (detail, auxiliary, section) view to another page?

(OP)
I tried cut / paste.  When I paste (either with CTRL+V or menu -> Edit -> Paste), I get a dialog box "This item can not be pasted here".  That seems to be the first time only.  I was successful with the Right-click contextual menu "Paste", then CTRL+V works as expected for the rest of the session.

Thanks!

RE: Can I move a (detail, auxiliary, section) view to another page?

Ahah! That happened to me also. First time didn't work, second time did. I just thought it was me or my mouse.

We may have discovered a bug. What version and SP are you using?

RE: Can I move a (detail, auxiliary, section) view to another page?

(OP)
2011 64, sp0 on win7 64

RE: Can I move a (detail, auxiliary, section) view to another page?

On 2010 SP 5.0, it worked the first time for me.

Chris
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RE: Can I move a (detail, auxiliary, section) view to another page?

I'm using SW2011-SP3 with XP x32

So it may be a SW2011 problem.

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