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Archive for August 27th, 2008

Well, not precisely… This is just a quick tip on how to edit a cropped drawing view. As you probably already know, whenever you create a cropped view in SolidWorks, the two things you need are a model view and a closed sketch that will define the area of the view that you wish to keep. Everything outside the sketch will be eliminated. But what happens if you make a mistake while creating the sketch or if it doesn’t include everything you needed it to show in the cropped view?  Well, you can always edit the crop!

In the following image, Drawing View 3 is a cropped view, but I need to edit it somehow, so that it includes an edge that I left out when I created it.

Cropedit1

All I have to do is right click on Drawing View 3, then click on Crop View, Edit Crop.

Cropedit2

By doing this, I will be once again able to see the original view as it was before the crop, and I’ll also  be able to edit the closed sketch that defines the crop. Notice how I’m simply modifying the closed spline, to include the edge.

Cropedit3

After all changes to the sketch have been made, all I have to do is click Rebuild.

Cropedit4

And the new cropped view now also includes the edge, just like I wanted.

Cropedit5