Is it possible to make a drawing view visible across multiple sheets within an Onshape drawing?

StephenG

In another CAD drawing package I have created views that visually persists across multiple drawing sheets. The view is typically and postage sized iso view of the item being detailed, but it can be anything that might have value to the person working/viewing the drawing sheet set.

In that particular CAD package you could not change the paper placement of the view on the sheet; it always had the same location on every sheet it was made visible. It would have been nice if the placement was unique to each sheet.

I have no expectations that Onshape should have this feature, just curious.   

john_mcclary

You can just insert another view anywhere you like

then right click the view and select view properties, and change the scale to be as small as you like

StephenG

I was aware that one can create a duplicate view of the 3D geometry as many times as needed on as many sheets as desired, but this is not that same as making a view visually persistent across sheets; any annotation added to the view would not appear in the other sheets because the content and properties of a OS view is considered unique.

In fact, this other CAD drawing package had a special view that was always visible on every sheet; it was called the "Main View", I like to call it the "Paper Space View", or the "Watermark View". It represented the physical size of the drawing and whatever was in that view bleed through (was visible on) every sheet. It was the perfect place to put thing that you want to show on every sheet, for example, the outer most part of the format (the zone letters/numbers and the lines representing the margins of the drawing) would be placed in this view.   

john_mcclary

Huh, that's pretty cool. I've never seen that before. I've always had to do it manually.

3dcad

Maybe I don't understand correctly but for me that sounds like custom drawing Template? 

Why do you need same view of model on multiple pages, just being curios?

StephenG

Regarding this "PaperSpace" or "Water Mark" view, it really has nothing to do with the content of drawing template, it is more related to what you can do with respect to manipulating/leveraging the template contents throughout a multisheet drawing.  

From my original post...

"The view is typically a postage sized ISO view of the item being detailed, but it can be anything that might have value to the person working/viewing the drawing sheet set."

I used the capability to display a view across multiple sheets as a workaround to the limitation in the CAD system of only being able to view one drawing sheet at a time. This is not a problem in Onshape.