Reset front/ISO view in the model

david_salonia

Is there a way to reset the front and/or ISO view for the model? Inventor has this feature 

NeilCooke

Model direction on screen should not matter, but you can use Named Views

david_salonia

OK thanks.

will_fredin

I have had a challenge with kids making good front views in their drawings and hoping to do this as well. 

So here is how I have gotten around this for kids who are putting in poor front views into their drawing.
On the part studio tab place the object in the front position facing you as desired.
Below the navigation cube where is the dropdown for iso, dim,.... you can click on name view. Give this a title such as "True Front"
Then when you go to place your view into a drawing KIds can select this view. It is below the insert view in the "View orientation" dropdown menu. 
Hope this helps. 

matthew_stacy

@david_salonia try the <Shift><7> keyboard shortcut to quickly return to the isometric view.

rod_muirhead943

Mr. Cooke,  

Model direction is a major issue and very important. There should not have to be get arounds, work arounds.  Inventor allows this and this is Very Important.  Onshape needs to add this programming feature asap!

rod_muirhead943

Onshape also need to mimic actual real materials selection like Inventor along with the master data base of fasteners like Inventor.  If OS is looking to be world class #1, then many, many pinnacle features from other systems need to be implemented! 

NeilCooke

rod_muirhead943 said:

Mr. Cooke,  

Model direction is a major issue and very important. There should not have to be get arounds, work arounds.  Inventor allows this and this is Very Important.  Onshape needs to add this programming feature asap!

Can you please explain why it is a major issue? Onshape (or any other CAD for that matter) does not care. Even for 3D printing you can reorient the model in the slicer. Create or vote on an improvement request - if enough people vote then we may consider it, but it would be really low priority in the grand scheme of things. 

tom_hannon

If you click the isometric view button to return to that default view, you can then use the transform tool to position the part as you like and it will take on those views.

GWS50

Named views are very useful and give you a great deal of versatility

Contract_CAD_3

Named views are great for returning to a non standard view.
Named views are a poor workaround for a model with non standard orientation. It happens, and sometimes it's not practical to reorientate the model. Named views kick the user out of a command when selected.
It would be far more helpful to be able to manually orientate the model to (for example) where I'd like the 'Front' view to be then reorientate the standard views so that becomes the new Front. It wouldn't change the orientation of planes or anything else in the model.

S1mon

Transform.