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Detail views

DetailAspects of a design incorporated to communicate with others or submit the design for review. Use the tools on the Detailing tab to annotate designs, create drawing sheets, and review design changes. You can customize detailing settings to conform to standards or create your own custom style. views allow you to magnify a portion of another view to show more detail. To create a detail view, you must already have at least one view on your drawing sheet.

If a detail view does not display correctly, make sure that you loaded any lightweight components shown in the view.

You can change several options for detail views in the Detailing options, such as line weights and note options.

To create a new detail view

1. Click the Detail ViewOrientation settings that you can apply to your design, including spin, pan, and zoom. You can adjust these settings individually or you can apply one of the following preconfigured views: Trimetric, Isometric, Top, Bottom, Front, Back, Right, Left. You can also select Snap View and click a face to view it head-on. tool on the Detail tab's Views ribbon group.

2. Select one of the following options:

   • Create Detail of Selected View to create a new detail view with the boundary drawn on an existing view.

   • Convert Selected View to Partial to convert an existing view into the detail view.

3. Select the Sketch Boundary Type (circle, rectangle, or spline) from the Options panelArea of the user interface that enables you to modify functions specific to tools..

4. (Optional) Enter the ScaleSolidObject that encloses volume. A surface becomes a solid if it encloses volume. or surface: Change the size of the selected object using the PullTool used to distort or deform geometry. Use the Pull tool to offset, extrude, revolve, sweep, draft, and blend faces; or to round, chamfer, or extrude edges. When converting a sketch to 3D, pulling a line creates a surface and pulling a surface creates a solid. tool. You can scale dynamically or by entering a scale value. Drawing sheet or cross-section views: Magnify or shrink the view by selecting a View in the Structure tree and editing the Properties panel. on the Options panel.

5. Click on the view that will create the detail to set the anchor point for scaling.

   Usually, you will create an anchor point very close to the detail that you want to show in the view.

6. Click to set the center of a boundary circle, a corner of a rectangle, or the first point of a closed spline.

7. Click again to define the boundary circle or rectangle, or click multiple times to define the boundary spline.

   The detail view is displayed.

8. Click to place the detail view on the drawing sheet.

9. Press Esc or S to exit the tool.

To modify a detail view

If you created a circular or rectangular boundary, you can drag the boundary to expand or shrink it.

Modify the values in the Properties panelArea of the user interface that displays editable details about the selected object(s). This panel is initially displayed on the lower left side of the screen, but can be moved., or right-click and select a style from the mini-toolbar. Change the value in:

• RenderingModeThree ways of designing: Sketch, Cross-section, or 3D. You can switch between modes at any time. available from the Properties panel for a view on a drawing sheet. Use Rendering mode to change the Graphics style for the view. Select Inherit if you want to link the graphics style to the parent view. See Graphics styles. mode to change the graphics style for the view. Select Inherit if you want to link the graphics style to the parent view.

• Scale to magnify or shrink the view. When you change the scale, the Type property changes to Independent from sheet. You can select Linked to sheet to set the scale to be the same as the scale used for the drawing sheet.

• Orientation type to change the detail view to a General viewOne of the view selections for drawing sheets. General view makes the selected view independent of the view used to create it. See Projected view, Cross-section view, and Detail viewOne of the view selections for drawing sheets. Detail view creates an enlarged view of a particular area, magnifying a portion to show more detail. You create a detailed view from one of the other views on the drawing sheet. See General view, Projected view, and Cross-section view...

You can drag drawing views to different sheets in the Structure treeDisplay in the Structure panel that shows you each of the objects in your design. You can expand or collapse the nodes of the tree to view the objects. You can rename objects, create, modify, replace, and delete objects, as well as work with components.. When you drag a detail view to another sheet it remains linked with its parent view.