Creating a D-View

A D-View is an M-View (meaning, a user-defined view in the Part and Assembly environments) that is opened in the Drafting environment. Once positioned in the drafting sheet, it can be manipulated exactly like a regular view.

To create a D-View:

1. Click the View Creation icon in the View toolbar or right-click on the sheet branch and select New View.

2. Click the Model icon and select an existing view from the displayed Cimatron E explorer window and click Select to return to the View Creation dialog.

3. Click the M-View icon in the View Creation dialog. The M-Views dialog appears, displaying a list of predefined M-Views and Exploded Views, as follows:

4. Select the required M-View or Exploded View to place in the sheet.

5. When a Section View is selected (as shown in the example below) the Section Projection toggle icon is activated enabling you to display the following :

• Click Section Projection  click OK to close the M-Views window and select the required view from the Section View-Type drop-down list, as follows:

• The cursor changes as follows . Click to display the section view in the required 2D view, as follows:

6. Alternatively, you can toggle the Section Projection button to 3D Section and click OK . From the M-Views dialog. The View Creation dialog is displayed as follows:

7.  Click to display the section view in 3D view, as follows:

If a D-View is created using a broken section line in the Assembly and Part environments, it is possible to determine along which segment of the section line the sectioned geometry will be displayed in Drafting. The following example shows the result of flipping the section line display direction by clicking on the line itself. The thickened line segment direction is the displayed direction of the geometry.

8. Click OK. The D-View is listed in the Drawing Tree accordingly:

From the M-View dialog, you can also select predefined exploded views that were created from an assembly model, as described in steps 1 through 4 above. The result is displayed, as follows:

Note: By default the exploded lines are displayed. You can show or hide specific lines from the View Attributes dialog box, which is displayed by selecting the View Attributes icon in the View Creation dialog.