5 Key Takeaways from Session 2

Did you get a chance to join PTC University and Creo Curriculum Manager, Matt Huybrecht for Session 2: Creating and Modifying 2D Drawing Views in our Creo Crash Course Week? If not, we’ve got you covered. Check out these five key takeaways from Session 2 and make sure to check out our Creo Product Page to discover all the ways you can get skilled up on Creo fast! 

1.      Understand the Basic Drawing View Types

A drawing view is a representation of a 3D part or assembly that is placed on a drawing sheet. A drawing view represents the shape of the object when viewed from various standard directions, such as front, top, side, and so on. There are various views you can add to a drawing, including, but not limited to:

• General View – When you create a drawing, the first view added to a drawing is a general view. A general view is usually the first of a series of views to be created.
• Projection View – A Projection view is an orthographic projection of another view's geometry along a horizontal or vertical direction from the parent view. The orientation of the projection view is always 90° from the parent view, and its scale is dependent on the parent view.
• Auxiliary View – An Auxiliary view is a special type of projection view. Instead of being projected orthogonal, the auxiliary view is projected perpendicular to a selected planar reference (a datum plane) or projected along the direction of an axis.
• Detailed View – A detailed view is an enlarged view of any existing model view showed in a smaller portion.
• Cross-Section View – A cross-sectional view is a cut-away portion of a part or an assembly in order to show its interior structure or hidden components.

 2.  Discover the Cross-Section View Types

A cross-sectional view is a cut-away portion of a part or an assembly in order to show its interior structure or hidden components. You can display and configure many different types of cross-section views in drawings. There are two main types of cross-section views that you can display in drawings:

• 2D cross-section views – You can display these cross-sections in 2D views. They can either be planar cross-sections where the cross-section cutting line follows a datum plane or planar surface, or they can be offset cross-sections where you sketch a cutting line through the solid model.

• 3D cross-section views – You can display these cross-sections in 3D views. You can create them as 3D cross-sections within parts or assemblies, and you can control the display of their cross-hatching within drawing views.

 3. Learn how to Add Detailed Views

A detailed view is an enlarged view of any existing model view. When you create a detailed view, a reference note and border are added to the parent view. You must define the following when creating a detailed view:

• Spline – Select a center point in an existing drawing view that you want to enlarge in the detailed view. You must then sketch a spline around the area of the view that you want enlarged in the resulting detailed view. You do not have to be concerned about sketching a perfect shape because the spline is automatically converted into a boundary shape.

• Location – Select a location on the drawing where the resulting detailed view is to be placed. Similar to other views, you can always move the drawing view at a later time.

 4. Edit Visible View Areas

You can edit a view so that only portions of the view are visible. This is useful if the design model is an awkward shape and standard views take up too much space on a drawing. There are a number of different view area options available, including the following:

• Half View – Removes a portion of the model from the view on either side of a selected cutting plane.
• Partial View – Displays a portion of the model in a view within a closed boundary. Model geometry outside the closed boundary is not displayed.

• Broken View – Removes a portion of the model from between two or more selected points and closes the remaining two portions together within a specified distance. You can break horizontally, vertically, or both, and use various graphic border styles for the breaks.
• Z-direction clipping – You can specify a plane or reference on the model that is parallel to the screen and exclude all graphics behind it. 

 5. Modify your Cross-Hatching Display

Cross-sectioned components are represented by different cross-hatching styles. You can modify the cross-hatching styles displayed in part and assembly cross-section views by editing a number of attributes for cross-hatch patterns, including:

• Spacing – You can half or double the cross-hatching line spacing.

• Angle – You can edit the angle by selecting a predefined angle or by specifying a different angle.

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