Detailing

drowe-2 · ‎Mar 08, 2010

I have 3 detail views on my drawing, I am trying to align them vertically to the first view. The second aligned view appears to be 3mm higher than the first & the third aligned view is 3mm higher than the second. If I create another view & align that it then drops to 3mm lower than the original view. Yours confused.....
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cdiaz-2 · ‎Mar 08, 2010

are these projected views? have u tried view update all sheets? do u have any relations that could of failed and are causing craziness? if u pick the view, then hit properties, there should be a view alignment option. try that. good luck Carlos Diaz

drowe-2 · ‎Mar 09, 2010

Thanks for the reply Carlos In answer to your comments... No they are not projected views they are just partial detail views off a part. Yep tried updating all views, no change. No relations in that part at all. The alignment option is what I'm trying. Thats what is not working properly. It does not want to play nicely. Not a show stopper as my work around at the moment is align the views manually.... I just wondered if anyone else has had this issue. Thanks again Dave Rowe

drowe-2 · ‎Mar 10, 2010

I think I have found out why the detail views do not line up.... I think its the centre point on each view you have to pick to sketch the spline. Pro/E recognises the picked centre point as the centre of the view & aligns those instead of the centre of the view. And as the picked centre point is in a different position in each view then the views appear not to line up. Cheers

Kevin · ‎Mar 10, 2010

You can align the views to geometry if you want but aligning to the center of the views is the default.

WillyC · ‎Mar 10, 2010

Yes, this is pretty useful. Thanks, Kevin. To add to what Kevin said, click CUSTOM to select the geometry refs in each view to use for alignment. Edges work well.

cdiaz-2 · ‎Mar 10, 2010

another option would be to use projected/partial/section views. this would line them up just right but i do understand depending on the orientation of the views they cant always be projected. but at least now we all understand the cause of the results u were getting Carlos Diaz