Rotate the isometric view

Does anybody knows how I can I rotate the isometric view when I'm drawing a
Part, it is because when I press the icon of isometric view, I view the back
of my design and I want to view the front part when I press the isometric
icon.

Regards
Marco

 

You can redefine the default views. Position the object in some fashion
that you recognize, as in put it into what you would like to call the front
view. Then press the spacebar to bring up the view menu and click on the
third button (Update Standard Views.) This will redefine the views as you
have specified. If the iso's still aren't quite what you want, pick a
different orientation and do it again.

If none of that gets you where you want to be, don't forget that you can
always create your own custom views.

WT

 

The problem do it that, is that in the drawing sheet the views also get
the rotation, do you know how to turn the view 90 degrees for example to
avoid the problems in the drrawing.

Regards
Marco

 

don't redefine, create "custom" views. if redefining is necessary, then
"reset standard views" after creating your custom views.

custom view tip:
select 2 planar surfaces, then select "normal to", save view

 

I have a really cool macro (I can't remember where I got it) that creates
all these ISO views:

Right front
Left front
Left rear
Right Rear

They are great for presentations and in drawing views.

E-mail me and I will send it to you.

Dan

 

Easiest way is to bring up the default isometric view, use "shift-left
arrow" twice to spin 180 degrees, and save the resulting view as a custom
view called (say) "Front iso"

 

Those might be part of the set that Lee Bell mostly wrote for his keyboard
macro set - quite handy when you get used to them. If you aren't using the
whole set, I can send them to you.

Basically, in a part or assy, the num pad is envisioned as a box with 5
being the front view. Then the 8 is the top view, 2 the bottom view, 4 the
LH, etc. It also includes the 7,9,1,3, keys for the different iso's, and if
you use CTRL with any of them, you get the opposite. So, CTRL5 gives you
the back view, and if you do the CTRL on the iso's, you get their reverses,
which is not the same as the regular ones; you have to try it to really see.
It takes a bit of getting used to in order to become second nature, but it
creates many more iso views than are normally available, and once you do
start using them, you won't go back.

Then in drawings, there are other opportunities. Picture any size drawing
split into quarters and then picture each of the num keys as zooming into
that quarter. The 7,9,1,3 are obvious - 4 corner quarters as you would
expect. But wait, there's more... If you hit the 2, you get a lower center
quarter, 4 gives you the lh center quarter, etc. The most useful part of
this is that you can be working in the upper LH corner and want to check
something in the title block. Rather than zooming out to fit screen (hotkey
F) and then windowing in (hotkey W) on the title block area, you simply
press the Num pad 3 key - this takes you straight to the title block area.
Then either hit the 7 key to go back to the upper LH quarter, or even
better, the hotkey B to zoom to previous view - right back where you were.
Shortest route - 2 keys to go look and come back right where you were.

Also almost forgot, the . key opens & closes the FeatureManager and will
work even when you switch between documents, remembering where each one was
when you left it.

Lee wrote a very good documentaion set to explain all of this - if you
haven't seen it, you owe it to yourself to give it a try! Hey Mikey, try
it, you'll like it!!

WT

 

Send me an email (remove mxz from the address) and I'll forward
you a solution my VAR did for me, which does exactly what you want.
Regards
Frank

 

Thanks for the macros Wayne. I installed most of the macros here at home and
tested them. They work so good! I am going to take them to work and save
time with them there. I really like the one that closes the property manager
and how the macros pan on the drawings.

Thanks again, and keep up the good work!

Dan Bovinich
Mechanical Designer
Texaco Ovonic Hydrogen Systems

 

Are these available somewhere? If not, could someone make a space for them?
They sounded quite useful.

Jerry Steiger
Tripod Data Systems

 

http://www.d-digest.com/ssa/V2I7/V2I7.html

http://www.d-digest.com/ssa/download/KeyPadMacros.zip

 

Thanks!

Jerry Steiger
Tripod Data Systems

 

downloaded?

-Dennis

 

dumb question alert, but since I haven't played with the macro feature in
solidworks, how do you set these macros up so that they can be used as the
word document that's inside of the "macro Files.zip", says they are used?
I've created a folder called sw macros and unzipped the macro Files.zip file
into it, then I go to solidworks open up a model, then in the pull down
menus I select "tools" then "macro" then "run", I then select one of the
*.swp files ("AltNum2.swp", for example) doing so changes the orientation of
the model, I then, on purpose, change the orientation, to see if pressing
the "alt" and 2 combination again will put me back to the expected
orientation shown before, but nothing happens. (numlock is on). do I have to
map each one of the macros to a key on the keypad, if so how?

 

It would help if we knew which version of SW you have (SW 2003 is different,
if I remember correctly.) I will give instructions for SW 2004:

1) Right click on a tool bar and hit "Customize"

2) Hit the "Keyboard Tab"

3) Under "Categories "

Scroll down to macros and click on it

Look in the "commands" box and you should see all the file name macros, if
you don't then you have to cancel everything and make a:

C:\Program Files\SolidWorks\Macros folder
and/or go into your options > system > file locations > Macros > and set the
file location to the directory you want to store your macros in.

4) (redo steps above)

click on the "commands" macro file

5) click in the "Press new shortcut key" dialogue box

6) Now press the keyboard keys that correspond with the filename

7) Click on "Assign" button, which should send the "Press new shortcut key"
to the "Current Key" box

Then Click on the next "Command" macro file and start all over until you
have all the keys assigned.

It takes a few minutes, but the effort is well worth it.

I hope this helps.

Dan B.

 

Two things - I'm pretty sure the folder has to be the Macros folder, because
it can't even be named Macro. The other is that I can send anyone that
wants it my .CUS file that already has all the macros assigned to the keys.
That way you don't have to do all the assignments yourself. Plus, as an
added bonus, you get all the other hotkeys assigned for you and can start
using them immediately.

WT

 

i'm still using 2003