Mike Rock Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 Hi- Long time 2D drafter using some of my free time to dip my toes in the 3D world. I've modeled a simple wooden desk lamp in Vectorworks and I'm pretty happy with how that went. Now it is time to make the construction drawings and I want to see what the best practice is before I get some bad habits. My lamp is made up of two parts 4X Uprights and 8X Cross Pieces. I'd like to have a sheet for the Upright and a sheet for the Cross Piece. Each piece would need a top, front and right side view. My current solution is to put a copy of each piece on it's own layer and move the viewport crop around as I change the view. Am I missing an easier approach? I'd love to be able to click on the part in the design layer and have a command give me an orthographic projection of it on a sheet layer I can than annotate with dimensions. Any thoughts? Quote Link to comment
Boh Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 19 minutes ago, Mike Rock said: My current solution is to put a copy of each piece on it's own layer I suggest using classes instead of layers. 20 minutes ago, Mike Rock said: I'd love to be able to click on the part in the design layer and have a command give me an orthographic projection of it on a sheet layer I can than annotate with dimensions. I think with a top/plan Viewport In the oip you can switch to orthographic front, side etc projections. Quote Link to comment
Mike Rock Posted August 17, 2020 Author Share Posted August 17, 2020 @Boh That seems to work if I put each piece in its own class so I can turn off all but one example of the part. Many ways to skin this cat, I might play with making each part a symbol as all 8 cross pieces are the same and all 4 uprights are the same. 1 Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 Take a look at the Create Multiple Viewports command also. It might get you the different views you need of each part in a single step. 1 Quote Link to comment
Mike Rock Posted August 17, 2020 Author Share Posted August 17, 2020 2 hours ago, Pat Stanford said: Take a look at the Create Multiple Viewports command also. It might get you the different views you need of each part in a single step. That was very helpful! Quote Link to comment
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