In this project you create a scaled top and front views of a mechanical part on a layout. Before you use the SOLVIEW and SOLDRAW commands to create views of solid parts, you should confirm that you have the Hidden linetype loaded. If you don't do this, you will find that you will have to perform several addtional steps to make hidden lines display correctly in your viewports.

Tip: SOLVIEW creates drawing views in Layouts. In this drawing we previously specified the paper size for our layout, and deleted the default drawing view that AutoCAD automatically created for us.

1. From the File menu, choose Open and select the 2609a.dwg file stored in the 2609.exe self-extracting executable. See figure 1.

2. At the command prompt, type LTSCALE.

3. Type 10 to specify the desired linetype scale.

4 .From the Draw toolbar, choose Line.

5. Select two points to draw a line.

6. Press ENTER to indicate that you don't want to select any more points.

7. Select the line you just created.

8. From the Properties toolbar, from the Linetype list, choose Hidden. Note that if that linetype had not been loaded you would have had to use the LINETYPE command to load it.

9. Press ESC twice to remove the grips from the line. You should be able to see that the line is drawn in the hidden linetype. See figure 2.

10. Select the line.

11. Press the Delele key to delete it. You don't need it now that you have confirmed that the hidden linetype is loaded.

12. From the Draw Solids Setup menu, choose View, or type SOLVIEW at the command prompt. See figure 3.

13. Type U to to indicate that you want to orient the Top view you are about to create using a user coordinate system.

14. Press ENTER to indicate that you want to use the current UCS to define the view orientaton.

15. Type .1 to specify the view scale as being 1:10.

16. Select a point on the screen to identify the center of the desired view.

17. Select additional points as required to refine the view position. See figure 4.

18. Press ENTER to indicate that you don't want to refine the view position further.

19. Select two points to put a window around the model. If you only wanted to show a detail view, you could select two points around just a portion of the model. See figure 5.

20. Type Top to specify the name of the view. See figure 6.

21. The SOLVIEW command automatically returns to the first prompt, assuming that you will want to create a second view. See figure 7.

22. Type O to indicate that you want to create an Orthogonal view.

23. Select the bottom edge of the viewport. See figure 8.

24. Select a point below the viewport to position the new view. See figure 9.

25 Press ENTER to indcate that you don't want to reposition the view.

26. Select two points to put a window around the object in the viewport.

27. Type Front to specify the name of this view.

28. Press ENTER to exit the SOLVIEW command. See figure 10.

You will find our version of the drawing to this point in the 2609b.dwg drawing file located in the 2609.exe self-extracting executable.

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