It then suppresses all views that are not on the current sheet and hides them in the feature tree.

So my conclusion is that SOLIDWORKS adds a component to the drawing/assembly for each view. Just like you can selectively open an assembly configuration. You can open a drawing while only loading one or more sheets.I am still not 100% sure about this one, but these are my reasons for thinking that a sheet is actually a configuration: Part 2: Each drawing sheet is an assembly configuration I would have loved to show you a rotated sheet format, but SOLIDWORKS prevents changing the angle apparently. You also cannot change the rotation of this view object using code. You can delete the sheet format, but the sheet will remain. This gray rectangle can never be deleted. It just means that the sheet is added as the first object to a sheet and the first view is the second object.

This behavior made no sense to me, until now. But that first view is not an actual view, it’s the sheet. When you program for SOLIDWORKS as we do here at CAD Booster, you can get the first view of the current sheet using the GetFirstView method. A proof that drawings are assemblies, in six parts Part 1: A sheet format is a view Very cool, right? My mind was already blown at this moment.Īnd then I kept thinking about it. This means that a drawing view is actually just a side view of the 3D model. This button allows you to actually rotate a drawing view in 3D, like this: Now I was checking out buttons in SOLIDWORKS that I rarely use, and I found this nifty feature: We are continuously looking for ways to optimize, streamline and automate the drawing process for our users. How I found outįor our drawing automation add-in Drew, we work on drawings a lot. It makes a lot of sense when you combine all the hints that we found. It seems that drawings are just assemblies underneath the hood. I found out something about drawings a few days ago.Īnd I’ve been thinking about it ever since.

Solidworks assembly