Feature request: perspective view in drawings

johan_van_ravenhorst

In a drawing, it is sometimes helpful to have a more "human" view of a complex product in addition to only isometrical views.
So hereby the request for a feature to insert perspective views to drawings.

I am not the first, see also these related posts:

• https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/4693/perpective-views-in-drawings
• https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/5121/custom-perspective-view-in-drawings
• https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/8163/assembly-named-views-in-drawings

henrik

Would be nice to have this natively (and easy to update).
But googling for a solution, I got my job done using the workaround with a screenshot of a "hidden edges removed" view (described in the first link Johan posted above).

jacques_spillmann

@Onshape, Any news on this? I desperately need a solution to export perspective views in DXF format to later use in Illustrator...

PeterM

You can make a named view in your model and insert this in the drawing. I believe this should solve the issue. https://www.onshape.com/cad-blog/tech-tip-using-named-views-in-onshape

john_mcclary

@PeterM They are asking for a perspective view in a drawing.

Although you can store the projection type in a named view, drawings will not let you select those named views that are perspective

PeterM

You are right, @john_mcclary. You can insert named view of parts in perspective view though, but not from assemblies. That is my experience. Vote this request up!

Kukla

Have there been any updates on this? We use perspective views all the time for our customer approval drawings and need to be able to add them to the drawings. I have to import a screenshot .jpg into the drawing as a work-around.

jacques_spillmann

I created a improvement request here (I think) https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/12519/activate-perspective-in-drawings-and-adjust-orientation

jacques_spillmann

With Onshape new ability to export a drawing in SVG format (sweet!), if only we had the option to use named views that have "perspective on" in drawings would be awesome! This would be just for display and doesn't need to be "dimensionable"...

stvn_vl

any news on this? marketing doesn't like ortho views ;-)

john_mcclary

If it's for marketing, try rendering. 
Then put the image on the drawing 

stvn_vl

any news on this? 

S_Laurent

Up

darth_pixel

as for me there is no other option to work in 3D but the perspective view
this is how my little brain works

i event use it while drawing sketches (in any app that allows it)

so definitely upvote

martin_kopplow

Doesn't seem to be possible yet. I seldom need perspective views in drawings, but for those rare cases I do (Architects!), I sometimes fake a perspective overview by adjusting my model view as required, set perspective, switch render mode to unshaded, then just make a screen shot and place that on the drawing sheet instead of the usual isometric view. It's not the real thing but satisfies most requests.

It would still be good, if we could get a perspective view out of Onshape, in line art, as a DXF, PDF or SVG file. That'd help communicating with illustrators and artists of all kind.