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My articles on Empty Views in SolidWorks have been long in coming.\u00a0 This is not due to the topic being complex or anything.\u00a0 It’s just taken me that long to get around to this series.\u00a0 (There’s been a lot of other stuff to talk about in the meantime, such as SolidWorks World 2009<\/a>, something called a 3D mouse<\/a>, and rants about this or that.) The Part\u00a01 article in this series discussed how to make, place and size Empty Views.\u00a0 Part\u00a02 now discusses how to use them once they are created.<\/p>\n

Use Empty Views as quick Zoom to selection locations <\/strong><\/p>\n

OK, let’s say that one empty view each represents the title block, revision block and drawing notes.\u00a0 How does one quickly move about the drawing to view these areas?\u00a0 There are several methods available in SolidWorks.\u00a0 The following method is likely less common, but is perhaps quicker can more common methods.<\/p>\n

First, assign a shortcut to Zoom to selection<\/em> function.\u00a0 Zoom to selection<\/em> is found under View <\/em>pulldown>Modify<\/em>>Zoom to selection<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Zoom<\/p>\n

To add the shortcut (for much quicker access to this function), goto Tools<\/em> pulldown>Customize…<\/em>>Keyboard<\/em> tab> and then search for “zoom to selection”.\u00a0 From there, simply add a keystroke as the shortcut for Zoom to selection <\/em>and choose OK to save.<\/p>\n

Now here is how to use this shortcut with Empty Views.\u00a0 With the drawing open and with no views selected, look over in the FeatureManager.\u00a0 Select any one of the Empty Views (or any view for that matter).<\/p>\n

\"FeatureManager<\/p>\n

As this point, simply hit your shortcut keystroke for Zoom to selection<\/em>.\u00a0 The viewport will immediately zoom to the area identified by the Empty View.<\/p>\n

\"Zoom<\/p>\n

Choose another view from the FeatureManager and hit your shortcut for Zoom to section<\/em> again.\u00a0 Each time, the viewport will immediately zoom to the area defined by the selected view.<\/p>\n

Using Empty Views for PDF bookmarking<\/strong><\/p>\n

As an added bonus, any views created on the drawing (including Empty Views) will become bookmarks if you save that drawing as a PDF.\u00a0 This adds greatly to the navigability of PDF files for everyone who uses them.\u00a0 Within PDF Reader, the bookmarks will appear to the left (similar to the FeatureManager in SolidWorks).\u00a0 Simply LMB click on the desired view, and PDF Reader will jump to that location.<\/p>\n

There are some pitfalls with saving a drawing as PDF, so if your company is experiencing those, then it is not recommended that drawings be saved as PDF.\u00a0 In those cases, print to PDF works better.\u00a0 Unfortunately, bookmarks are not created when printing a drawing to PDF.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n

The one thing that frustrates me about SolidWorks Empty Views is that SolidWorks Corp reduced their functionality (as discussed in Part 2).\u00a0 However, with a simple hack, they can be used as drawing bookmarks, to contain drawing notes,\u00a0 and to add functionality to PDF files.\u00a0 Additionally, they are always useful for containing sketches, as noted in Part 1 of this series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My articles on Empty Views in SolidWorks have been long in coming.\u00a0 This is not due to the topic being complex or anything.\u00a0 It’s just taken me that long to get around to this series.\u00a0 (There’s been a lot of other stuff to talk about in the meantime, such as SolidWorks World 2009, something called … Continue reading “Using Empty Views (Part 2: How to use them)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[16,4,3],"tags":[594,407,584,408],"series":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawing","category-how-to","category-tipstricks","tag-bookmark","tag-empty-view","tag-pdf","tag-view"],"yoast_head":"\nUsing Empty Views (Part 2: How to use them) - 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