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Reset front/ISO view in the model

david_saloniadavid_salonia Member Posts: 4 EDU
in Community Support
Is there a way to reset the front and/or ISO view for the model? Inventor has this feature 

Answers

  • NeilCookeNeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 5,844
    Model direction on screen should not matter, but you can use Named Views
    Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEA
  • david_saloniadavid_salonia Member Posts: 4 EDU
    OK thanks.
  • will_fredinwill_fredin Member Posts: 7 ✭
    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_stacymatthew_stacy Member Posts: 489 PRO
    @david_salonia try the <Shift><7> keyboard shortcut to quickly return to the isometric view.
  • rod_muirhead943rod_muirhead943 Member Posts: 96 EDU
    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_muirhead943rod_muirhead943 Member Posts: 96 EDU
    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! 
  • NeilCookeNeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 5,844
    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. 
    Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEA
  • tom_hannontom_hannon Member Posts: 4 ✭
    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.
  • GWS50GWS50 Member Posts: 446 PRO
    Named views are very useful and give you a great deal of versatility

  • Contract_CAD_3Contract_CAD_3 Member Posts: 2 PRO
    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.
  • S1monS1mon Member Posts: 3,296 PRO
    Transform.
  • aeromorrisonaeromorrison Member Posts: 53 PRO

    This isn't only a Part Studio issue. It's also an issue in assemblies. Clicking the corners of the view cube doesn't actually produce an isometric view—it seems to be a trimetric view and always has Z pointing upward. Assemblies may not always have easy-to-access view normal planes for reorienting in order to save a Named View. Transform isn't available in the assembly view. So, if company or industry standards requirements don't align with the Front/Right/Top ISO view default in Onshape (true in my case for almost every project), then it actually gets quite tricky to get assemblies and related drawings precisely oriented without quite a bit of extra work.

    The Named Views would be satisfactory if there was a way to precisely orient the assembly prior to saving the Named View.

  • MDesignMDesign Member Posts: 749 ✭✭✭
    https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/116117#Comment_116117

    Isometric Views Improvement Request click and vote.

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