Creating a Multiple View Projection

This task shows you how to generate geometry in a view by projecting geometry from previously defined views. Selected objects are projected onto a plane or ruled surface defined by the user, and then transformed into the receiving view. Projected geometry retains the same attributes it had in the original multi-view.

Before you begin:
  • By default, the Multiple View Projection command is not available in any of the toolbars. To make it available, you need to customize the toolbar. For more information, refer to Customizing a Toolbar by Adding Commands.
  • Open a drawing representation.
  • Create a drawing representation with front, right, top views containing geometry and an empty isometric view.
  • Activate the view you want to create the new geometry in.
  • Make sure the planes were properly initialized.
Related Topics
Creating Views

Add elements to an existing view, using the Action-Object mode

You can add elements to an existing view using the action-object mode.

  1. Click the Multiple View Projection icon from the customized toolbar.

  2. Select the object defining the target plane or surface to be used. This element can be any mono-parametered elements (line, circle, ellipse, parabola, hyperbola, curve). In our example, an arc of a circle in the front view is selected.

  3. Select, in another view, the object to be projected. In our example, a circle representing a hole in the top view is selected.

  4. Select more elements to be projected, if needed, or click in the open space or still another command if you want to terminate this command. In our example, the circle representing a hole is projected from the front and top views to the right view.



Create an isometric view from scratch, using the Object-Action mode

You can create an isometric view from scratch using the object-action mode.

  1. Make the isometric view active (double-click).

  2. Multi-select the elements to be projected into the isometric empty view. In our case, the whole front view is selected0.

  3. Click the Multiple View Projection icon from the customized toolbar.

  4. Select the object defining the view to be created. All the elements are automatically projected onto the active view.

  5. Repeat the steps above (Object-Action) with the various elements to be projected that will allow generating the isometric view.



Important: The projected element keep the same graphical attributes as the selected element to be projected.