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SOLIDWORKS Section View
Tech tips, tutorials, and best practices for SOLIDWORKS Section View from the Javelin technical team
Using Detail and Section Views to Add Intelligence to SOLIDWORKS Drawings
Detail and section views are commonly used in SOLIDWORKS drawings and are an easy way to communicate important details. These…
How to Automatically Exclude a Component from a SOLIDWORKS Section View
In a SOLIDWORKS Drawing, you can specify which components or rib features are to be left uncut in a section…
How to create a Section View in SOLIDWORKS Composer?
Section views are created to see the internal cross section of the model or peer inside the model — without…
Using the Foreshorten View SOLIDWORKS Drawing Option
Creating Aligned Views in SOLIDWORKS can have different results, depending on the geometry of the model being sectioned and the…
How to flip a SOLIDWORKS Section View Direction
As a designer or drafter we need to know the correct projection of the orthogonal views in drawings. There are…
SOLIDWORKS Section View Jog Line Options
When adding Section Views to your SOLIDWORKS drawings, there is a pop-up toolbar allowing you to place jogs in the section line. There are the options Arc Offset, Single Offset and Notch Offset
SOLIDWORKS Section View makes my model appear hollow?
If you’ve used the SOLIDWORKS Section View tool and noticed that your model appears hollow, similar to a surface body, this…
SOLIDWORKS Transparent Section Views
SOLIDWORKS 2017 now gives you the ability to create transparent section views! Instead of a section view that completely cuts away…
How to exclude hatching in SOLIDWORKS Section Views using Section Scope
In some cases, it may be necessary or beneficial to exclude hatching from particular features of a part or components…
SOLIDWORKS 2017 Emphasized Outline Section View will help you read between the lines
For those of us that remember a time before SOLIDWORKS was a common tool in the shop, the ability to…
How to find Parent View of a Section or Detail View located on a different sheet in SOLIDWORKS [VIDEO]
With all of the information you need to show on your drawing sheets they get rather full and complicated. You…
New in SOLIDWORKS 2015 – Slice Section View now includes Surfaces! [VIDEO]
Until the current release of SOLIDWORKS, displaying surfaces within a drawing view has been a bit tricky in SolidWorks. Past…
SolidWorks 2014 – Selected Components for Section Views [VIDEO]
SolidWorks 2014 adds new functionality to the Section View tool. Now you can select components to exclude from the section,…
Half-Section View Workflow Change [VIDEO]
Shortly after I’d posted my last video, my good colleague Alin Vargatu asked me to do a “sequel” to the…
Section View User Interface Improvements [VIDEO]
Making jogged section views in SW 2013 is so easy! Watch the video below and see for yourself! What I…