Drawing: Detail View with blank detail circle
February 15th, 2010
An interesting drawing question recently came up on the SolidWorks Forum. How does one create a detail view were the detail circle is hidden? Jennifer Reid gets props for coming up with a great solution for newer versions of SolidWorks (I’ve modified her original post for clarity):
- Open the document that will have the blank detail circles.
- Go to toolbar Tools>Options>Document Properties tab>Line Style.
- Click the New button.
- In the Line styles field, name the new line style something like “None”.
In the Line length and spacing values field, enter “A,-1,-1″.- If desired, Save the new line. This is not necessary.
- Click OK button to apply this new line to this document.
- Then goto toolbar Tools>Options>Document Properties tab>View Labels>Detail
- Set Circle and Border to the blank line that was just created. (It shows up as a blank line at the bottom of the line style drop down lists.)
- Click OK to apply changes.
- On the drawing, ignore the dashed line for the detail circle and detail border. This is just a guide that does not appear when the drawing is printed.
The full conversation is found here.
Categories: Drawing, Tip/Trick | Tags: detail view
