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SOLVIEW
Quick Reference
See also:
■ Create a Flattened View
Creates orthographic views, layers, and layout viewports automatically for 3D
solids.
Access Methods
Button
Ribbon: Home tab ➤ 3D Modeling panel ➤ Solid View.
Menu: Draw ➤ Modeling ➤ Setup ➤ View
Summary
This command automates the manual process of creating views, layers, and
layout viewports for 3D models. For ongoing work, it is recommended that
you create drawing template (DWT) files customized for 3D.
NOTE SOLVIEW must be run on a layout tab. If the Model tab is current, the last
active layout tab is made current.
List of Prompts
The following prompts are displayed.
Enter an option [
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Section on page 1816]: Enter an option or press Enter to exit the command
SOLVIEW places the viewport objects on the VPORTS layer, which it creates
if it does not already exist. The view-specific information that is saved with
each viewport you create is used by SOLDRAW to generate the final drawing
view.
SOLVIEW creates layers that SOLDRAW uses to place the visible lines and
hidden lines for each view, view name-VIS, view name-HID, view name-HAT,
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