Can someone comfirm this?

Oops, SW office pro 2007 sp4.0 xp32 sp2

You can change the config after the view is inserted.

That is correct, but..... you then have to select each view in turn, to get the correct configuration view. As the projected views are still of the original first view that you placed.

Found a way round it!

Make a drawing of config 1. Close the part document down. Add sheet, find the part document, when you click on this part document, you can select the configuration that you want in that sheet.

A bit quicker, but not ideal.

No...... that does not work..... hmm....

Why give the option to choose the config, if it will still only put the last saved, config in???

The easiest way to do this is simply to add sheet one as you described. Before you insert the views into sheet 2, switch the active config of the part model. Solidworks uses the current configuration when you use the create view tools.

HTH

You can control select the views, either in the feature manager or the graphics window and change them all at once. One thing to watch out for when you do this is that you are changing ALL of the properties, so don't pick views with different scales.

I don't understand this. As far as I can tell the projected views behave just the same as the other views; they are independent. I believe section views change configurations with the view that they are cut from. I'm not sure about detail views.

Jerry Steiger

Thanks Jerry,

That's a good tip.

The way I see it, is, if I have a front view of config 1 and a projected view, (projected from the front view to be clear), the projected view should be of config 1. If I then change the front view to show config 2, then the projected views should update to config 2 also. I am sure they did in earlier versions.

That's the way round it, thanks yawdro.

But do this:-

Open the drawing, but not the part, if you then insert a drawing view, you then browse for the part. At this stage, you are given the option to choose what configuration you require, but... it doesn't work!

So why give a non-working option?

......... I do hope 2008 is better, because this 2007 version, is becoming increasingly crappier by the day.

That's the way I would make it work if I were king. I suppose we could turn in enhancement requests. I don't remember how it worked in earlier versions, as I don't do this very often.

Jerry Steiger