How to change an Oblique Part's View to Desired View (i.e. Front) for Drawing

Don_Van_Zile

Couple things here:  My college is trying to release a full job in Onshape and have an issue with creating the desired views as "Front", "Right" etc... which you could do in other systems and I have to believe there's a way in Onshape. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I also help this post helps others as well with the same design workflow. 





Thanks in advance for any assistance.

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/e89fe02beff54ab09f508870/w/4457745a01f34ee1c0f2dddb/e/f31bec121b0e608cba9556e3

NeilCooke

@Don_Van_Zile you cannot reassign which is the front view in the 3d model (like Inventor), but you can create a named view and use that as your first view in the drawing.

Don_Van_Zile

NeilCooke said:

@Don_Van_Zile you cannot reassign which is the front view in the 3d model (like Inventor), but you can create a named view and use that as your first view in the drawing.

Good deal! I knew there had to be a way. Thanks, Neil.

Don_Van_Zile

Ok, now the other problem. How do you dimension these oblique holes they way they should be shown on the drawing?




Closer view (Red Box)



Example of what I want:

NeilCooke

In that case you will probably have to create a centerline between the two holes on the left (that share the same vertical position) then create a point to line dimension.

Don_Van_Zile

NeilCooke said:

In that case you will probably have to create a centerline between the two holes on the left (that share the same vertical position) then create a point to line dimension.

That worked. Thanks again, and for the quick response.