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Views – a tool for defining detailing of a drawing |
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From the designer’s perspective, a view is an image of the visible part of surface of an object turned to the observer.
A view as a part the KOMPAS drawing is a "container" for objects, as well as the objects which are inside this "container".
Objects contained in one view KOMPAS-3D can generate both a single image (a view, a cut, a section, or a leader element) and several images at a time.
In in essence, a drawing may consist of the only view which will contain all the required images. However, when working in KOMPAS-3D, it is strongly recommended to split all graphic information in the drawing into separate views. Such options offer a substantial acceleration in creation of assembly drawings, drawings of large facilities, saturated drawings, and facilitate further work with them.
Use of views allows to draw images at the required scales, without recalculating the parameters of their geometrical elements manually. For example, to allocate a drawing of a structure with the total length 1500 mm on a sheet of A1 format it is required to plot it at the 1:2.5 scale. In the traditional plotting, to obtain such a reduced image, you would have to manually divide the parameters of each geometrical element by 2.5, and while setting the dimensions – also manually input the real values into the dimensional captions.
In KOMPAS-3D, you can immediately (i.e., before generating an image) create a view with a 1:2.5 scale and plot in it, inputting natural geometrical dimensions. Scaling of the image (reduction by 2.5 times) will be effected by the system automatically. While setting dimensions, their real values will be also determined automatically.
If afterwards it turns out that the scale should be changed, you won’t have to re-plot the image by recalculating the dimensions. You will merely have to change the scale of the view in which this image is located.
Use of views also allows for moving and rotating objects which are part of the required view as a single object.
More details on changing the position and scale of the view...
