Engineering drawing - creating construction lines between views

paul_gwilliam

Hi all,

Quick question I have created 3rd angle orthographic drawings using the standard 3 views. I am looking for a feature which would draw the traditional construction lines (long dashed lines) between the views to help illustrate that certain features are same size.

I am aware of being able to show or hide hidden features on views, I am looking not to have to mannually draw these in after constructing th drawings

mahir

You can manually sketch lines, but I don't see an option for making them construction/dashed.

chadstoltzfus

For manually sketched lines in the context of a drawing, the only way I know of to create one is to use the Edge-to-edge centerline. 


One common workaround we use is to simply create the sketch in the Part Studio, and select the "Show sketches" option when right-clicking on a view. I find this to be a little more parametric and gives more options than a centerline.