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Opposite Drawing View Orientations on Different Sheets

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quest4k

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Aug 31, 2005
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Good afternoon, I have an assembly I am importing into a drawing on the first sheet and I am selecting Isometric for the view orientation. This shows the back of the part and on this sheet this is what I want to see. I do the same on sheet 2 and I get the same thing, but I need to see the front of the part instead of the rear of the part. I tried to change the orientation of the part in a separate configuration, in the assembly, but that did not work either, because the orientation on both sheets changed and remained the same. Question is, is there an easy way to get the 2 opposite views on the 2 different sheets? Thank you in advance for any and all assistance rendered.
 
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Look into Insert>Drawing View>Model or Insert>Drawing View>Relative to Model.
 
Run the macro listed in faq559-1180, and then you will be able to call up whichever Isometric view orientation you need.

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Just start with the model oriented the way you want. When you add the view to the drawing, select "Current Model View".
 
Thanks for the responses, I tried a few of them and could not get anything of I changed the orientation and played around a little and dumb lucked my way into seeing the back view, not exactly the way i wanted it but I guess it will have to do.
 
Thanks for the response CBL. I am kind of paranoid of macros because I used to use them a lot and then I changed CAD programs and nothing made with the macros translated and I lost a lot of work, so sense then I have avoided macros like they were the plague.
 
What do you mean by "nothing made with the macros translated"? Creating things by macros in SolidWorks gives the same result as creating them by hand. It just takes less time.

-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)
 
The CAD system that created the parts with the help of macros was not SW and the stuff made by the macros did not translate and I literally got nothing where once a part was. I later learned that macros do not translate very well, so I never again used them.
 
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