SW2003
Is there a way to make an auxillary view that is allong an edge instead of perpendicular to it. I have had many times that I have no perpendicular reference for the view I want but I had a Parallel one. I remember in school we projected along a line more often than perpendicular to one.
Corey Scheich
You can project off of a sketched line that is perpendicular to the edge you want to use.
That is probably what I will end up doing. I will use a section view though because the sketch line will go away then.
Corey
I would still use the aux view. You should be able to hide the sketch line that you projected off of.
Corey,
You can draw a line and make it perpendicular, parallel, at an angle, etc, and use that to project your auxiliary views from.
Hope this helps, Seth Renigar
That makes alot of sense. We don't have much need for auxilary views here maybe 8 drawings a year. So I don't deal with them all that often. But knowing that will help me think in advance in the future. The drawing in question was a simple part with an angled cut. In this case a section was adequate.
Thanks, Corey Scheich
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