Drawing View Bounding Box?

[CorBlimeyLimey]

One of the ideas listed in the SolidWorks World Top 10 Ideas is for the drawing view bounding box to be returned to its former glory of being re-sized. Aside from pre-defining views, I have never had a use for the bounding boxes. More often than not they just get in the way.

What use did you have for them?

 

[ctopher]

I used to resize them when they sometimes overlapped, to make then not overlap. Also when adding a break to long part, sometimes it helped to resize make fit better in the page.

Chris
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[CorBlimeyLimey]

But re-sizing the box didn't affect the actual view of the model. or did it?

 

[Eltron]

Resizing helped when I had a bunch of information on the page. Sometimes notes would get associated with views because they were placed within that bounding box. If I made that box as small as possible I wouldn't be moving non-associated items with the view when I wanted to arrange things.

Dan

http://www.eltronresearch.com

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[macduff]

CBL,
Yes, I saw this post and added a comment. I remember SW have this functionality versions ago, but went away in SW2007, SW2008 and SW2009(?). I welcome this functionality back with open arms.

Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
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[ctopher]

The only time it ever affected the model was sometimes the break would move. If I added notes (text), sometimes the text would stick out of the box. I would resize so the entire text was included.

Chris
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AutoCAD 08
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