solidworks 2010…section views

Another week is upon us and yet more previews of SolidWorks 2010 are comin’ at ya.  I am going to stay in the areas of drawings and detailing this week because there are so many good additions to this years release.

Today I am going to take a look at section views.  If you are like me section views are one of those tedious processes that just aren’t all that fun to make.  Don’t get me wrong, they are needed but just not fun to do, because everything should be fun right?  Let’s get started!

Aligned Section Views

Now you could always create aligned section views (well maybe not always) but the kicker was that you could never accurately dimension across one.  That’s about to change because starting in SolidWorks 2010 you will be able to dimension across an aligned section view.

Section Depth

Another really cool/nice feature in SolidWorks 2010 is the ability to set the depth of the section view in part drawings.  What this allows you to do is set to how far beyond the section line you want to see.  You can set this in the Section View PropertyManager under the Section Depth heading.