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Reset front/ISO view in the model
david_salonia
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Is there a way to reset the front and/or ISO view for the model? Inventor has this feature
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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.
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!
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.
Simon Gatrall | Product Development Specialist | Open For Work
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.
Isometric Views Improvement Request click and vote.
While I don't think this is a major issue, it is an issue nevertheless. I used to teach both CAD course and a course in computer integrated manufacturing.
Depending on the method of production, model orientation is different. For example, FMD 3D printing and similar will prefer orientation that minimizes or eliminates overhangs and maximizing area of the base (for optimal bed adhesion), while milling may require the model orientation to be completely different. I used to use inventor to teach both courses and in the case of inventor the student simply changes model orientation so that when the .stl is imported to the production control software (ex. slicing program), the model is already oriented in the optimal direction.
For the hobbiest, the person drawing the file is usually the person manufacturing it, and in these cases orientation in CAD is not so important because the person can simply change orientation within the slicing software to match the fabrication process.
But whe way I ran my class, the students would export to .stl and leave it in a shared folder, and each student would take a turn placing the .stl's on the beds of slicer and setting print.
Of course one can get by this by having the designer create a note for the model, in which they can specify the side that should be facing the printbed (or facing up for 3D milling or which side for rotary mills), but for simple 3D printing, importing the object into the slicer and have it land already oriented optimally for the 3D printing can eliminate some hassels.
If you look at some objects in repositories such as thingiverse, some descriptions will say things such as, "just drop into slicer, and leave orientation alone" or, "make sure that {insert feature here} is facing the printbed".
After i left the intro CAD class, and a different instructor took it over, he barely covers basic CAD, let alone any advanced techniques. the 3D printer room used to be filled with printers making spaghetti because a student would just drop another student's STL, and hit print, because sometimes that's what teenagers do.
In the broader scope, I would think adding this feature makes sense (I am not an engineer, a molecular biologist and biochemist by training) because sometimes an engineering designer would make the prototype and then send it off site for fabrication. I can see why someone would want the layer lines to be oriented certain direction in relation to the part because a 3D printer part will have different compressive and shearing forces going parallel or perpendicular to the layer lines.