{"id":1928,"date":"2010-09-27T06:12:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T14:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2010-09-27T06:12:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T14:12:39","slug":"rotating-a-drawing-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1928","title":{"rendered":"Rotating a Drawing View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes one need to show a rotated view in the drawing. If is available in the standard view, once can simply place it as desired. If there is no view as required, one may go to part or assembly and create a new view orientation and then use that in the drawing. To avoid that one can simply rotate the drawing view as required.<\/p>\n<p>1.\tClick on the view or select the view you want to rotate.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1319\" src=\"http:\/\/gupta9665.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/rv1.png?w=840\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n2.\tClick on Rotate View on the heads up tool bar or standard tool bar.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1320\" src=\"http:\/\/gupta9665.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/rv2.png?w=840\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n3.\tYou\u2019ll now see a Rotate Drawing View pop up window.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1321\" src=\"http:\/\/gupta9665.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/rv3.png?w=840\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n4.\tFill in the desired angle value (I have used 90\u00b0). You can also key in a negative value.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1322\" src=\"http:\/\/gupta9665.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/rv4.png?w=840\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n5.\tOnce you have keyed in the desired value, click on Apply and view will be rotated.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1323\" src=\"http:\/\/gupta9665.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/rv5.png?w=840\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n6.\tThen click on close to exit the command and you\u2019ll have a rotated view.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1324\" src=\"http:\/\/gupta9665.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/rv6.png?w=840\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1325\" src=\"http:\/\/gupta9665.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/rv7.png?w=840\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes one need to show a rotated view in the drawing. If is available in the standard view, once can simply place it as desired. If there is no view as required, one may go to part or assembly and create a new view orientation and then use that in the drawing. To avoid that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1928\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rotating a Drawing View&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[1165,1166,408],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-tipstricks","tag-angle","tag-rotate_view","tag-view"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rotating a Drawing View - SolidWorks Legion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=1928\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rotating a Drawing View - SolidWorks Legion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sometimes one need to show a rotated view in the drawing. 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